Happy New Year! 2010 looks to be an exciting year for Aurora Illusions Gymnastics! We have lots of fun and new things that will be happening and taking place this season and calendar year! Starting with new practice times and an added practice night, the largest team we have ever taken into a competition season, new team leos, DBA Club for our Optionals, and possibly another new mental program for parents and all of our team to participate in! Then in November we will host the latest National Danish Performance Team that will visit us as part of their 10 month world tour! It should really be an exciting season and a fantastic 2010! Get ready, and Dream – Believe – Achieve!

Tuesday & Thursday Practice Time Change!

Compulsory Practice for Tuesday and Thursday nights times have changed! Tuesday & Thursday Compulsory Practice will run from 5:00 – 7:00. Optional Practice will stay the same from 6:30 – 9:00, and Mondays will stay at 5:30.

We know it is going to be better in the gym for all our athletes and we are excited about the opportunity this change will bring for all of our levels. Thanks for changing with us! Also check out the new night we are adding! See Friday Team Practice!

NEW - Friday Team Practice!

We have added a new night to our team practice repertoire! Starting Friday, January 22^nd we will have a new team workout from 4:00 – 6:00! This practice will accommodate optional, Compulsory 4’s and 5’s and eventually we may add preteam to this time slot as well. This will be a great addition to our team practice schedule, it will help many of our athletes that are struggling with evening homework to have a practice option where they don’t have to worry about that, many younger aged optional could have a workout that doesn’t go so late at night, and for a compulsory team that is getting full with no room for expansion this added day should give us some breathing room. We are very interested in getting people moved to this new practice day. Our Monday and Thursday practices are currently overfull so if you are attending one of these nights and would like to move to Fridays or would like to add Friday to your workout schedule please contact Alan at aherron@auroragov.org ASAP so that we can get you in this new great day and time.

E-mail Get on it!

If you do not get e-mails reminders from me you should be on my distribution list. Send me an e-mail requesting to be added, it is that simple! My e-mail is aherron@auroragov.org

Team Clinics!

Monday Night Clinics (7:45 – 8:30) and Thursday Clinics (4:00 – 5:00) are a great way to get some extra attention on specific skills. Clinics cost $5 for Mondays and $8 for Thursday per participant. This extra time with a coach can really help your improvement.

MONDAY CLINICS

Jan 4^th – Bars

Jan 11^th – Back Handsprings

Jan 18^th – No Clinic, No Practice!

Jan 25^th – Vault & Beam

Feb 1^st – Back Handsprings

Feb 8^th – Bars and Beam

Feb 15^th – No Clinic, No Practice!

Feb 22^nd - Vault and Tumble Tramp!

THURSDAY COMP CLINICS

Jan 7^th – Tumbling

Jan 14^th – Beam Skills

Jan 21^st – Bars - Kips!

Jan 28^th – Vault & Tumble Tamp

Feb 4^th – Bars

Feb 11^th – Back Handsprings

Feb 18^th – Beam

Feb 25^th - Floor Skills

THURSDAY DBA Club CLINICS

Jan 7^th – Vault

Jan 14^th – Bar Skills

Jan 21^st – Tumble Tramp & Floor!

Jan 28^th – Beam Skills

Feb 4^th – Vault & Tumble Tramp

Feb 11^th – Beam

Feb 18^th – Tumbling

Feb 25^th - Bars

In order to attend the Monday and Thursday clinics you must sign up and pay at the front desk more than 24 hrs before the clinic. Clinics fill fast so sign up early! You can NOT just stay for a clinic you have not signed up for. There are limited spaces so sign up in advance. To sign up, see or call the front desk at MDW.

CALL 303-326-8300 to sign up!

DBA Club!

Dream – Believe - Achieve Club. We are excited about DBA Club and if you’re an optional you want to get signed up for it! We have specialty clinics on Thursdays from 4:00 – 5:00 (see clinics above) we have our additional DBA workout on Wednesdays from 3:30 – 5:30 and we have our next visit up to Broomfield to use the pit scheduled for February 20^th! Our first visit to the pit was AWESOME, this visit will also be great but you have to be part of DBA to participate. Our Mental training program will also begin this month so make sure that you have a composition journal to write in!

If anyone needs additional information about DBA Club please contact Alan.

New Team Leos!

We will be getting new team competition leos for this season, so everyone will have to purchase a new leo. I have selected the new leo and they are going to be beautiful! I am very excited. We will be sizing all the girls the end of this month and the beginning of February so we know what sizes to order. I am trying to finalize the options with GK, the manufacturer and finalize a price but you should anticipate our leotards being between $85 - $100 in price. Remember that we will keep the same leo for the next several years so you will not have this expense each season. We also have a couple fundraisers planed to help you offset this cost if you are interested in participating in the fundraisers.

Fundraisers!

We are planning two fundraisers to help families deal with team competition expenses. We will sell Butter Braids at the end of the month and take delivery of them prior to Valentine’s Day. You can warm your valentine’s heart by serving a warm and yummy Butter Braid! Then on February 27^th we will have a great opportunity for a fantastic lunch with our Carrabba’s Fundraiser Lunch. Each fundraiser we participate in helps the team a little and helps fund your gymnastics expenses even more! For example with Butter Braids we make $4 off each item sold. Out of that $4, $1 will go to the team and $3 toward your expenses. This is a great deal. For Carrabba’s we will make $6 per ticket sold. Again out of the $6 profit $1 will go to the team and $5 toward your team expenses.

Look for Butter Braid information coming out toward the end of this month and Carrabba’s Lunch info will be available in February.

Love the Smiles in our Gym!

DREAM – BELIEVE - ACHIEVE