More Ren Fair Fun

This was our second weekend at the Ren Fair. Better weather. Tons of people and lots of fun!

Teaching the Knights of Mayhem how to vault!

Had a great time joining with the Knights and look forward to performing with them again at the end of the month in St. George.

Also, We have spend a lot of time updating the website! Check it out!

Oak Hills Vaulters!

UPDATES

Our Recent Updates!

We have recently made a few 'cleaning house' changes around here. Updated our website to be much more user friendly, adding two new pages: GOHA and Vault Utah!

Added a fan page on facebook for users to join us and stay updated with the latest news.

Working on updating the blog entries and keeping people posted on what's happening around our parts.

The latest:

GOHA will be performing the second weekend in a row at the Utah Renaissance Festival this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at 2:00 pm right after the jousters, Knights of Mayhem. Look for our booth, we will be haning out with the horses out on the 'island' all weekend long. Here are a few pics from this last weekends performance.

Triples on Stewart went well.

Venece as our elf!

Frolicking as Fairies

Team Photos

We had tons of fun this weekend and are looking forward to another great one! Hopefully we will see you there!

Christmas Party

Christmas Party

We will be having a Vaulting Christmas Party for all vaulters on December 22nd (Tuesday) at 7:00 pm held at Abby and Lindsay Brown’s house in Woodland Hills.

Vaulters, their parents, and any siblings can come. We will have potluck snacks, a white elephant (gifts under five dollars would be great), games for the kids, and a vaulting movie.

The address of our house is as follows.

910 S. Skylake Dr.

Woodland Hills.

It is a cream stucco house w/Christmas wreaths on two lights surrounding a two car garage.

Here is a link to a map from the barn to their house. http://tinyurl.com/y9vsnas

If you have any questions you can call 801-423-8409

Winter Newsletter

AVA Membership Renewal

Membership Renewal Time -- Early Birds Claim a Great Gift!

The AVA is offering two new types of memberships: $15 for recreational vaulters who would like to join and enjoy membership benefits, and $25 for a 5-year membership for friends who would like to support vaulting. What a great idea for parents to help support Oak Hills Vaulters through the AVA for the next FIVE YEARS! The $15 Recreational fee is also a great way for non-competitive students to still enjoy the benefits of becoming an AVA member for such a cheap price!!

Both of these membership types I would HIGHLY consider.

New members who sign up between October 1 and Dec. 31 of any calendar year are members for the remainder of that year, AND for the following year. In addition, you will receive a special early registration thank you gift from the AVA -- If this is you, click here


Renewing Members: Click here if you were an AVA member previously, and are renewing your membership for 2010. Renewing members who sign up between October 1 and Dec. 31 of any calendar year are members for the remainder of that year, AND for the following year. In addition, you will receive a special early registration thank you gift from the AVA.

Remember: All vaulters, parents, loungers, etc who join before December 31st will receive a free gift from the AVA. In the past this has included vaulting stickers, an AVA promotional DVD, post cards, and more!

If you are planning on medal testing, or attending any kind of AVA event I highly recommend you get this taken care of now!

Let me know if you have any questions :]

Summer Showcase

Equestrian Vaulting

Oak Hills Vaulters Summer Showcase

Saturday, September 26th, is the day to see a spectator sport more suited to the circus. The Oak Hills Vaulters are presenting their annual Summer Showcase at their indoor barn in Salem, UT from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

For those who are not familiar with equestrian vaulting, it is a combination of dance and gymnastics performed singly, in doubles or in triples, on the back of a moving horse. The athletes pose, jump, twist and groove in rhythm on a horse to a variety of music while the horse walks, trots or canters in a circle. This fun performance is a joy for all ages. Watching the vaulters perform their routines on the horses is something you won't want to miss. Lovers of dance and lovers of horses will especially be enthralled.

The Summer Showcase is free to the public. Drinks and snacks will be available before the show starts.

Head coach Kylynn Warren has been with the team since she was old enough to walk and has seen it grow from a handful of students to over 45 vaulters.

Vaulting is an international competition sport with only two teams in the state of Utah. The Oak Hills Vaulters have competed in regional and national competitions for over eight years.

The vaulters range in age from three years old to adult.

The barn is located at 1435 E. 900 S. in Salem, UT. (Take Spanish Fork Main St. south, turn east towards Woodland Hills.)

Check out their website at: www.oakhillsvaulters.com .

To contact Kylynn Warren, call 801-836-0799.

Latest Email Sent Out:

Hello All!

Just a few reminders about the summer showcase on September 26th. The performance will start at 6:00pm, However ALL vaulters need to arrive no later than 4:30 pm for one extra practice. Spectators may start arriving to set up chairs as early as 5:30 pm.

Advertise:

I have attached a flyer for you to email out to all your friends or to print off and post around your town! Please please please help up advertise this event as much as possible! Hang flyers in your school, local gas stations, grocery stores, etc. If you have the ability to print larger poster size, or regular size nice, good quality, colored copies for a donation to our club, please let me know asap. We can also provide a tax write off for your donation if need be.

What to Wear:

All Vaulters will be required to wear black capri leggings or vaulting pants, black sock, and black vaulting shoes. We will also be wearing our ivault shirts if you have purchased one. If you have not purchased an ivault shirt, and do not plan to, no worries! Just have your vaulter wear a SOLID, BRIGHT colored tshirt that is one of the following colors: Hot Pink, Yellow, Green, Red, or Orange. All vaulters are also required to wear a black tank top, tshirt, or unitard under their colored tshirt. This black shirt will need to be tucked into the vaulters pants to help prevent midriffs from showing. If you have any questions about what your vaulter needs to wear, please let me know.

Program:

I have attached a ROUGH DRAFT file of the program. I will probably be changing orders/horses around etc. I just need you to check and make sure you vaulter IS ON the program, as well as check to see if I have all spelling correct. Like I said, this is just a rough draft so please help me to correct any errors you may find. If you know someone who would like to be a sponsor of this event please let me know as well. Donations as small as $25 will get their company name on the back of our program, as well as an announcement during our show. Larger donations have the opportunity to make it on our flyer, as well as hanging their company banner in the arena during our performance.

Concessions Stand:

I was thinking of having a 'bake sale' for this year's concession stand during our performance. If you would be willing to donate cookies, peanut butter bars, cupcakes, ect to our stand, please let me know. Also, if you are able to help out with running our concessions stand either before or during intermission, please let me know as well. We will also be selling drinks and the remainder of our ivault shirts in the concessions as well. We want to try our best to make this an easy/high profit stand so if you have any suggestions I am more than open to any ideas you may have!

Other Items of Business:

Tshirts: We still have plenty of tshirts in most colors/sizes for sale! If you did not receive yours, talk to your coach about it during class!

Payson Parade: Unfortunately we did not make the deadline to be in this year's Payson Parade...So I hope you all have a fun Labor Day Weekend!!

Vegas: If you are planning on going, please get back to me as soon as possible so I can get everything entered without to much stress near the end of the month. I would like to start at least entering horses and vaulters into the online system.

You are responsible for letting me know which class numbers you would like to participate in so I can enter you in the online entry system. Please do this as soon as possible if you know that you are already going.

All USEF classes (Bronze and higher) will be held on Sunday this year, leaving Copper, Trot, Walk, and Barrel classes for Saturday.

State Fair: Our Demo team was scheduled to perform at the State Fair, Thursday Sept. 10th. However, after talking it over with the fair committee, it has been decided that with it being the very first day of the fair we would not really have a crowd this year. Considering we would all have to leave school early, drive to SLC, and be ready to perform by 4:00; it isn't really worth our trip this year. The committee has promised us a better time slot for next years fair.

Thank you so much for all of your support and patience in helping to make our vaulting program wonderful!

Happy Vaulting!

KyLynn