President’s Update
January 5, 2019
To All NGJA Members,
Happy New Year Everyone! Here is an NGJA update for January 2018.
- 2018 New Year’s Resolution – “By failing to prepare… You are preparing to fail!” Ben Franklin
Always prepare for your upcoming competitions and don’t rely on studying at the event! The Challenge was a
great warm up, not apply the same standard at all your competitions! - Are You Ready for the 2019 Judging Season – be prepared to apply the FIG rules!
a. NCAA judging preparation – All “NCAA” Challenge routines used and evaluated in the December NCAA
challenge are great for competition preparation! You can access any of these routines to prepare for
your judging assignments anytime during the competition season. Go to “Latest NCAA News” at
NGJA.org to access the routines or events you need!
b. Optional FIG judging preparation – Starting this week additional new Optional routines will be posted
every 2 weeks at the NGJA website. These routines are evaluated by the NGJA Jr., Sr. and NCAA
National Apparatus Leaders. Similar to the challenge routines, you can judge, review and compare your
work at your pace. Again, these routines are great for competition preparation! You can access any of
these routines to prepare for your judging assignments anytime during the competition season at
NGJA.org under the “Latest NGJA News” tab.
c. JO judging preparation – all “JO” Optional, Compulsory and Technical Sequence routines used and
evaluated in the 2017 fall JO challenges are great for competition preparation! You can access any of
these routines to prepare for your judging assignments during the competition season. Go to “Latest JO
News” at NGJA.org to access the routines or events you need! - NCAA Challenge Winners – The NCAA Challenge was an extremely close competition! With over 85
teams and 285 judges participating including 2 judging teams from Belgium, close to 30 teams had a
chance to win in week 4. The top 20 teams were separated by less than 15 points. Congratulations to
the top 5 teams:
Champions – Naked Delchevs – Daniel Ribeiro, Malcolm Brown, Dave Forister
2nd – Tortillas del O St – Bear Danley, John Portillio, Wyatt Baier, Grant Osborne
3rd – Pack of Broncos – Gerrit DeJonge, Brian Richmond, Mike Brey
4th – Fystrom of Fury – Steve Jacuik, Ellia Mannon, Alex Wittenberg
T 5th – Vinny, Ari, Loyd and Turtle – Mark Sherman, Sean Sims, Travis Blue, Travis Coulbourn
T 5th – Hot Judge Sundaes – Paul Evatt, John Kemens, Chris Pryor, Randy Gentile - National Assignments Posted– Congratulations to all the judges chosen to judge the NCAA Championships,
Winter Cup, US Qualifier and P & G Championships. All assignments are posted under the membership tab at
NGJA.org.
Mike Juszczyk
NGJA President