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Look who’s here!

LAKE BUENA VISTA, FLORIDA,USA.  16 April 2012 –  2012 Acro Gymnastics World Championships & World Age Group Competitions. More than 600 gymnasts from 33 countries are competing at the event. Th event takes place at the ESPN Wide World Sports complex at the Walt Disney World Resort. Look who came… Continue reading

Competition day at last

Matome, Natalia and Natalie waiting for their score after Matome and Natalie's dynamic routine on Day One of the 2012 World Championships. Picture by WESSEL OOSTHUIZEN / SASPA

Malik & Emilio having fun

Emilio Abreu and Malik Baatjies having fun at Universal.  

Visiting Universal

Chaandre Glade, left, Kaede Kers and Claudia Havenga at Universal.

Ready to take on the World

ORLANDO, FLORIDA, USA. 14 April 2012. Matome, Natalie and Natalia on their way to podium training at the Disney Wide  World of Sport complex near Disney World. Matome, the only black gymnast at the event is confident that they will make the finals and qualify for next year's World Games… Continue reading

America here we come!

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA. 11 April 2012 – The South African teams for the 2012 Acro Gymnastics World Championships and World Age Group Games left for Orlando in Florida, US, yesterday. Copyright picture by WESSEL OOSTHUIZEN / SOUTH AFRICAN SPORTS PICTURE AGENCY  

The big and the small

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA. 24 March 2012.  Matome Tshishonga, 22, the oldest gymnast in the club and his son, Kopana, 2, the youngest. Kopana walks in to the gym every day, chalks up his hands and spend his day jumping with the other gymnasts on the mini trampoline. Picture by WESSEL OOSTHUIZEN / Saspa

Kathlego and Cheslyn invited to Bulgaria

PRAVETS, BULGARIA. 23 March 2012. Kathlego Moalahi, 10 and Cheslyn Glade, 12, our promising young Mixed Pair, have been invited to an International Club competition in Pravets, Bulgaria during June. "Cheslyn and Kathlego are our hope for a medal in the 11 - 16 Age Group in 2014 and we… Continue reading

Sellout crowd

20 March 2012. JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA. A capacity crowd enjoyed brilliant and flawless display of acro gymnastics at Golden Lions Gymnastics today. Seven of our club members, almost half the South African team, leave for Orlando, Florida, USA in three weeks' time to take part in the Acro Gymnastics World championships and World… Continue reading

Westbury opened their hearts

WESTBURY, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA. 14 March 2012. Kaede Kers, 11, proud and joy of Westbury Primary School in Westbury, Johannesburg, receives her tickets to Disney World in Florida, US, from the school's principal, Jeffery Malgas. Kathlego Moalahi also a South African acro gymnastics champion from Golden Lions Gymnastics in Newlands,… Continue reading