Tweet The excitement last night in the North Greenwich Arena was unreal, the British men’s team of Daniel Purvis, Dan Keatings, Louis Smith, Kristian Thomas, Ruslan Panteleymonov and Max Whitlock began on High Bar in top form setting the tone for the evening.  Dan Keatings was first up and there was no way a repeat of Tokyo, in fact after this performance Tokyo is long forgotten. The team nailed 5 strong high bar routines, not a foot out of place on the dismounts. They produced another 5 high quality routines …

Tweet The LOGOC have announced that tickets are still available for the London 2012 Test Event next week. Tickets for Visa International Gymnastics are on sale now, priced from £10 for full price tickets and from £5 for young people and seniors. Tickets are available for men’s and women’s Artistic Gymnastics sessions, as well as for Trampoline.

Meanwhile British Gymnastics announced the MAG team who will contend for a place at the Olympics in August. The team is lead by experienced seniors Louis Smith, Daniel Keatings and Daniel Purvis as well as Kristian Thomas, …

Tweet Kristian Thomas won the title as British High Bar Master last week at the British Championships. Check out his routine below:

Is this kid good enough to challenge Kohei Uchimura?
Today Kristian was named in the team to represent Great Britain at Worlds in Tokyo.

Tweet Yesterdays MAG British Championships saw Daniel Purvis crowned British Champion for 2011. Today the competition continued The “Masters” competition which brings together the top 8 scorers across the senior, junior and youth competition on each piece of apparatus giving some of the most promising younger gymnast the chance to test themselves against the senior stars. The Juniors really stepped up and grabbed some of the medals that the Seniors really could have won.
Floor
1. Kristian Thomas 15.750
2. Daniel Purvis 15.500
3. Ruslan Panteleymonov 14.875
Pommel
1. Louis Smith 16.050
2. Max Whitlock 15.200
3. Frank …

Tweet You may notice that Full Twist rarely posts at the weekends, usually only if there is a major competition going on or with some breaking news – my work in the gym can be quite demanding at weekends, taking up all of Saturday and Sunday. As usual some of the other Gymnastics Bloggers and news outlets have done a fantastic job in covering the news from around the world over the weekend.

The All Around: Germans unhappy with Tokyo Decision
Inside Gymnastics: tickets on sale for the 2011 Visa Championships August …

Tweet The seniors competed today with Beth Tweddle debuting 2 new routines and scoring 3rd on floor and 1st on bars.
 
1st – Hannah Whelan
2nd – Jennifer Pinches
3rd – Danusia Francis
 

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Kristian Thomas dominated the MAG results scoring high above the other competitors.
1st – Kristian Thomas
2nd – Matthew Firth
3rd – Max Whitlock
 

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View all of the results on British Gymnastics

Tweet BGTV has uploaded videos from the MAG British Championships. You can view the Masters videos here . Watch Reiss Beckford, Max Whitlock, Theo Seager, Sam Oldham, Andrew Smith, Ruslan Panteleymonov, Matthew Firth, Josh Sharpling, Kristian Thomas, Ashley Watson, Sam Fern, Courtney Tulloch, Grant Gardiner, Luke Folwell and Dan Purvis on Floor, Vault, High Bar, Parallel Bars, Rings and Pommel Horse.

Tweet The MAG British Championships started yesterday. The Seniors competed today with  World Floor bronze medalist Daniel Purvis and Sam Hunter fighting it out for the British Champion title but in the end had settle to share the title. A great achievement for both men. Ruslan Panteleymonov took the bronze.

View full results here or or below.
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All scores are available here: Vault, High Bar, Rings, Pommel, Floor.

All scores are up on British Gymnastics – really impressed with their work during the competition. The Junior scores are available and …

Tweet The MAG British Championships will take place this weekend, November 5th – 7th in Leicester, UK. Fresh from the Commonwealth Games and World Gymnastics Championships MAG gymnasts Louis Smith, Daniel Purvis, Sam Hunter, Sam Oldham, Reiss Beckford, Luke Folwell and Kristian Thomas will be competing in the event at New College.

See below for the competition schedule:
Friday 5th November
Under 12s
13:30 – Competition Start
16:40 – Presentations
Saturday 6th November
Under 16s & Under 18s
11:00 – Competition Start
14:00 – Presentations
Seniors
16:05 – Competition Start
18:20 – Presentations
Sunday 7th November
Under 14′s & Masters
11:30 – Competition Start
14:30 – Presentations

Tickets are …

Tweet The Men’s teams from Ireland and Great Britain will compete today in Subdivision 3 at 1.30pm. The British Team of Sam Hunter, Louis Smith, Daniel Purvis and Kristian Thomas and the Irish Team of Luke Carson, Kieran Behan and Anthony O’Donnell will compete against teams from Canada, Greece, Qatar and gymnasts from Thailand.

According to Tom Dillon (Head of the Irish Delegation), the team performed well in podium training.

They had a few areas that will be ironed out by competition. Team now focused on last few days training in preparation …

Tweet FIG has been posting profiles of each of the Worlds Team on the Sportcentric website. Yesterday they posted the British Men’s team profile. To find out more about Sam Hunter, Louis Smith, Daniel Purvis and Kristian Thomas. I’m really impressed with the amount of information available through FIG and the World Championships 2010 Website. There’s also a profile of the Womens team, speaking to Beth Tweddle, Becky Downie, Danusia Francis, Nicole Hibbert, Hannah Whelan and Jennifer Pinches.

View some others: Canadian Mens Team, Japanese Mens Team, Australian Womens Team, …

Tweet Team GB are set and ready for Worlds and will be departing for Rotterdam soon for the World Championships. The Teams main aim is to make the top 24 Teams and therefore proceed further to the second round of the Olympic Qualifications, in Tokyo at the 2011 World Championships.
Womens Team:
Beth Tweddle
Hannah Whelan
Danusia Francis
Nicole Hibbert
Jenni Pinches
Becky Downie

Mens Team:
Louis Smith
Ruslan Pantelymonov
Sam Hunter
Dan Purvis
Theo Seager
Kristian Thomas
There will be extensive coverage on BBC TV from Worlds – as we had such a great response from readers for our Commonwealth Games TV Coverage …

Tweet Following on from BBC radio DJ Chris Evans’ attempt at doing gymnastics, we have Russ Morris of BRMB 96.4 FM trying his hand at gymnastics while he meets team GB’s Kristian Thomas and discusses the European Championships.