{"id":172014,"date":"2025-10-01T04:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T04:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/172014\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T04:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T04:37:09","slug":"invercargill-aerobics-athlete-ready-for-world-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/172014\/","title":{"rendered":"Invercargill aerobics athlete ready for world champs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Invercargill aerobics athlete Dani Kramers will head to the FISAF Sport Aerobics and Fitness world championships in the Czech Republic at the end of October.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Invercargill aerobics athlete Dani Kramers has been practising her world championships routines so much this year, she\u2019ll sometimes go to sleep thinking about them.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt helps me get to sleep. I just visualise the whole routine – it\u2019s kind of my whole life at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dani will be part of a New Zealand team representing Invercargill\u2019s Empire Aerobics and Dunedin\u2019s Peak Aerobics Academy at the FISAF Sport Aerobics and Fitness world championships in the Czech Republic at the end of October.<\/p>\n

The ILT Academy Southland Foundation Year athlete will compete in the individual section and link with Invercargill\u2019s Matilda Stevens in the pairs competition.<\/p>\n

It will be her third time competing at the pinnacle event, with previous best finishes of 10th and fifth in 2022 and 2023, respectively, with last year\u2019s event in Brazil having to be cancelled due to flooding.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve learnt how to cope with the stress of it. When you are over there it\u2019s a massive event. Now I know what to expect.\u201d<\/p>\n

Preparation has been ramping up throughout the year, including wins in the individual and pair at both the Southland and Otago regionals, followed by victory in the individual and pair at the recent national championships. Earlier in the year there was a win in the pair and a second placing in the individual at the Pacific Open.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been going really well. We\u2019ve got a couple of group trainings coming up with a lot of the Worlds athletes from here and Dunedin, which is good because we can watch each other and cheer each other on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dani and Matilda have been competing together since the start of the year, as well as contesting the individual category.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of training and getting to know each other. To look good you\u2019ve got to be in time and you\u2019ve got to be moving the same and the different skill elements you have to do have to be in time. It does take a lot of practice,\u201d Dani said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to know each other and you have to trust each other because there\u2019s some lifts in there that are scary if you didn\u2019t trust the other person.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dani, who had been dancing since she was three-years-old, has been competing in aerobics since trying a \u2018have a go\u2019 session in Year 6. She caught the eye of Dunedin-based Kirsty Snoep, who is one of her current coaches.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s enjoyed her first year as part of the ILT Academy Southland programme, which aims to support many of Southland\u2019s aspiring athletes with mental skills, athlete life, nutrition and strength and conditioning at the Mike Piper Training Centre.<\/p>\n

\u201c(The Academy has) been great. The workshops are really helpful, especially the ones about mindset. The gym is amazing, it\u2019s a facility where I can train and improve.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lessons learnt with the Academy will be more than useful given the number of unknowns when Dani lines up in Prague.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe category changes all the time, there\u2019s new people coming into it, there\u2019s people going out of it. There\u2019s so much improvement for everyone. I\u2019m hoping to make the semifinals, if not the finals, that\u2019s my main goal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Invercargill aerobics athlete Dani Kramers will head to the FISAF Sport Aerobics and Fitness world championships in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[6647,102,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-172014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-fitness","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}