Team Voranc

So, here we are. Our last match is over. On Sunday, May 20th, we took part at the 2018 National Championships of A1 program and successfully finished our season. After, unfortunately, the unsuccessful competition last weekend, we had a lot of motivation for the upcoming. This may helped us. This was our first competition outside the Ljubljana area, but it was not the first time that we traveled together. At 8 am we drove out of Ljubljana and after about an hour and a half, thanks to our driver Nina and coach Hana, arrived in Maribor.  The competition program was slightly different than usual. We were very pleased that the competition for our group already began in the morning. First, there was a competition of pairs/triples in which our seniors Sara and Laura took part. They competed as number 3. The exercise was well performed, with a small mistake that Laura quickly and effortlessly repaired. Luckily, it didn't cost them a medal. In the strong competition, they were ran...

Last Saturday, the 2018 National Championships of C program was held. Since we finished second and fourth at Regional Championships, we qualified to Finals with both routines. This was a big day for us, because Nationals are always announcing the end of the season. We were barely waiting for that day, but we obviously had too many expectations. Our goal was above all to carry out exercises, as we know best, but this did not work out completely. Unfortunately, the judicial system was a little more sharpened that day, which made us even more sad. Because the season is ending and our ball routine is already 3 years old, we wanted to perform a good routine. Unfortunately, luck was not on our side. There were silly mistakes in the exercise; which were too many of them to reach the expected medal. Because of our second place last month, we expected a better ranking, because the previous exercise also wasn't the best in execution - we had three drops. Unfortunately, it happe...

Last Saturday, April 21st, we competed at the Second Championship Competition of Group compostitions. The competiton for A program was held early in the morning, so the A1 program was sooner than usual. It pleased us, because our member had the prom date on the same day.  As we have already said in previous posts, last month we were facing injuries and illnesses, so we wern't in the best possible way and almost gave up participation in the competitions. We are happy that we didn't, because in spite of the difficulties we managed to achieve a lot. We were very pleased that our competition part began with a category of exercises with apparatus, that we got rid of the stress of the apparatus as soon as possible. The routine was surprisingly good. Nevertheless, we made some minor mistakes, which were completely unnecessary, but in the end we did not expect such a good ranking. With a score of 4,650 (2,700+1,650+0,300), we were placed on excellent 8th place, which is...

Our seniors Nina and Maja took part in Aesthetic Group Gymnastics World Cup II as volunteers for a second year in a row. Last year, Padua was great, but this time it was even better. The second stage of World Cup took part in Graz, Austria from the 13th to 15th of April. Volunteering must be our favourite hobby, since we are doing it every month :P It was a great honor to be part of such a big event and as always, we enjoyed every single part of it. We can no longer count how many events we have already attended as volunteers, although not always in large numbers. Congratulations, of course, to the organizers, that they took us in so nicely and offered us a place of volunteers.    Pictures with our favourites! Thank you so much Olivia Yli-Juuti, Minetit Junior and of course, one and only, Minetit Senior! 💕 With Antton Laine (FIN), the best AGG choreographer :) Thank you for such a lovely experience, pictures say everything... Hope to see you so...

In Saturday, April 14th, our club traditionally organized the Regional Championship in rhythmic and aesthetic gymnastics of C program. The competition was very nice and the atmosphere was very good! In the morning there was a competition for younger categories - girls and pre-juniors. At 14:30 the competition started for older categories - juniors and seniors.  At first, Saura performed their pair routine for A1 program, which was a general training for them, because the next Saturday we're continuing the race at the 2nd Championship Competition. The routine was very well performed and the audience really enjoyed it! In the category of pre-juniors were 25 groups competing with apparatus. Voranc 1 competed with balls and placed 6th. Voranc 2 made a mistake and landed on 11th place. Both teams made it to the first half, so they successfully qualified to the National Championships in May. Seniors went to the competition with good thoughts because they had only a goal:...

This weekend Slovenian club for rhythmic gymnastics KRG Narodni dom held the traditional International Tournament ''MTM'' in Ljubljana's Gymnastics center. This year was already the 31st edition of it. Our girls have been attended it for the fourth consecutive year now and it was amazing, as always. Sara and Maja with Polina Shmatko, Lala Kramarenko and Sofia Nikeeva from Russia Since the amazing edition in 2016, when all biggest stars came to compete, we've all been expecting even more amazing gymnasts from all around the world. This year, one of the top gymnasts came to Ljubljana, such as Julia Evchik (Belarus), Alexandra Agiurgiuculese (Italy), Nicol Zelikman (Israel) and Polina Shmatko (Russia) - medalists from the 2016 Junior European Championships in Holon, Natela Bolataeva (Georgia) , Anna Sokolova (Russia), Lala Kramarenko (Russia) and others. Among them, of course, were also excellent Slovenian hopes - Aleksandra Podgoršek, Aja Jerman Buka...

March brought us a lot of new experiences. One of these happened last weekend. A few months ago, we were thinking: Why not try something new and take part in an international competition? And by chance we encountered the first version of international tournament Dream TiM Cup, which took place in Ljubljana from 16-18 March. We were so happy that we actually found a competition that has a senior category of groups in B program. That's why we applied for it. We came to the hall late in the morning, at 10 o'clock. We immediately fell in love with the hall, which was beautifully prepared and gave us a good first impression. While we were doing our hairstyles and makeup, we enjoyed the performances of girls and pre-juniors in individual exercises. Then we went to the training area and did our usual training, including warm-up, stretching and practicing our balances. When we felt that we are well prepared, we first take a close look of the carpet because it was a break in bet...