Over the last few years I have had to try to balance the two sports but it has become increasingly difficult. At the start of the summer 2006 though, Notts County closed their Centre of Excellence as a cost cutting exercise so myself along with over 120 other boys, were released overnight.
I had two offers from Nottingham Forest and Derby County but decided to concentrate on my gymnastics and am devoting all of my energy into competing at the 2012 Olympics.
I attended Rushcliffe school in West Bridgford, Nottingham but then moved away from my Mum and Dad, brother Jack and sisters Olivia and Isobel and to go to school and train in Huntingdon.
On leaving Rushcliffe School I was really proud to receive the The Rushcliffe School Achievement Award for 2007, as I did in 2006 for managing the balance between my school work, gymnastics and football.
Since moving at the start of the new 2007 school term, my training schedule at Huntingdon changed so that I had school studies on Monday to Friday mornings which then enabled me to do gymnastics training for 26 hours per week, I was also running every morning in order to build up my stamina. Saturday was my day off when I liked to relax by playing golf with my old school mates from Nottingham. You can read more about my weekly schedules and also see my competition schedule on my calendar page.
In August 2008 I returned from an amazing trip to Macau and Beijing where I accompanied the British Squad at The Olympic Games. The whole experience was incredible, right through from being measured up for my Great Britain kit through to training with the squad in Macau and the onto the main event in Beijing where we did so well in the Birds Nest stadium and I was able to mix with the World's best athletes in the Olympic Village.
Since then, I've been straight back into training at Lilleshall and Huntingdon, the trip to China really was a fantastic experience and I really wan to fulfill my dream on competing at the next Olympics.
As a result of the success of the male gymnasts at Beijing, coupled with the GB Junior Team winning the European Title earlier this year, British Gymnastics have arranged for The Olympic Programme Squad to use the state of the art Gymnastics facility at Loughborough University. This also gives me the opportunity to train full time at Loughborough on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. On Thursdays I'll continue to train at Huntingdon but it also means that I can also be back at home after spending the last 18 months living away in Huntingdon.
I'll continue to be home schooled but that will be administered by Mum and Dad at home in the evenings and on Sundays.
Hopefully, once the final decisions on funding have been made early next year, there will be a possibility that the 2012 Squad will all be based at Loughborough, including staying there as a squad and a there will be a fully centralised system.
To see a full list of my awards, please visit my achievements page.