2013 06 newsletter

Newsletter

Frome Canoe Club

Volume 37

Issue 6 June 2013

J12 prize for Jamie at Winchester.

Well done Jamie!

For all the recent slalom results see P11

ARTHUR HERE: WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? P19 for details

Langham Farm Slalom 8/9th June Come and compete and/or Come and help (we needs lots of this!)

See P4 for details Frome Canoe Club is affiliated to the British Canoe Union and is a Registered Charity (Number 1104728) 1

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THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE President Graham Warnecke Vice Presidents Richard and Jane Arney Jim and Catharine Croft Chairman Alun Jones Vice Chairman Gareth McGiveron Treasurer John Kent Secretary Pam Dixon 16 Blagdon Walk, Frome, BA11 2YH Committee Members Arthur Belbin Rich Carter Jonathan Howell Stuart Miles Sally Smiles Kath Norton Kit Officers Tim and Sally Smiles

In this issue CALENDAR: details

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Calendar in brief Langham Farm Slalom Wednesday sessions Course information Biblins

REPORTS

8/9 Grand Team Event 13 Canoe Course 14/15 Open Boat Trip

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SLALOM

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Mini slalom dates Some more dates for the diary Recent results Bala Mill Slalom

SPECIALS

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Bits and Pieces Copper noseclip points Go Canoeing day

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Calendar 2013 Date

Event

Standard

Contact

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Set up Langham Farm slalom

All

John K

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Two Star Course starts

Improvers

Pam D

6

Thursday skills training

All

Rich C

8/9

LANGHAM FARM SLALOM

All

Arthur B

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Go Canoeing Day

All

Pam D

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Thursday skills training

All

Rich C

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Passport Course starts

Beginners

Pam D

29/30

BIBLINS weekend

All

Pam D

5

Mini slalom at Market Yard

All

John K

6/7

Safety and rescue course

Improvers

Pam D

13/14

One Star weekend

Beginners

Pam D

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MARKET YARD SLALOM

All

John K

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CIWW trip

2 Star +

Rich C

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Mini slalom at Market Yard

All

John K

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Aquatic First Aid course

All

Pam D

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BBQ and Fun races

All

Pam D

31/1

3 Star weekend

Improvers

Pam D

June

July

August

Strict adherence to the Club’s code of conduct is expected at all times on club events .

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Club sessions

7-8pm nd from dults a a e s — o g o n ch ini lom tra le ople  Sla ung pe peop o g y n r u o o f y games ginners n and e u F  lo for b ners course noe Po in a g C e rse  rt - a b provers cou o p s s a  P - an im cover s i D 

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also running from 7.30-8.3 0pm

More fun and games Introductory se ssions Open boating

8-9pm

choose fr om  Adu lts only g roup  Cano e Polo fo r experie nced

Inexperienced paddlers 7-8pm Experienced paddlers 8-9pm

We now have a SUGGESTION BOX at the clubhouse. Please use it to let us know your views! Every month the suggestions will be reviewed by the committee and we will report back to you via the newsletter to see what you think.

There have been two suggestions so far. One is to have the calendar available as a single sheet when the newsletter goes out.. The other is to have a money tin in the kitchen for people who have a cup of tea or coffee to make a contribution. Any comments?

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For more information about courses, pick up a leaflet from the club, or look on the web site. Download an application and post to Pam or email her to book your place.

COURSES Passport

One Star A course for beginners.

At Market Yard over a weekend, 9am - 5pm both days.

Date - 13th/14th July

An introductory 7 week course for the under 14s. At the Market Yard during normal club sessions.

Wednesdays, 7-8pm.

Start date - 26th June

Two Star Canoe and Kayak A course over 7 weeks on Tuesday evenings. This progresses you from One Star to an intermediate level.

Tuesdays, 4th June - 16th July

Three Star Whitewater kayak course 13st August/1st September And the moving water sections on 13th October

Safety and Rescue A course spread over a weekend where you learn the ins ands outs of rescues.

6th/7thJuly

Aquatic First Aid An 8 hour course covering incident management, resuscitation etc.

August 10th Ask if you need a 16 hour course.

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FRIDAY MINI SLALOMS

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July, 9th August, 6th September

At the Clubhouse, 7pm till 9pm. Cost £2 Our Summer mini slalom series of fun events.

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YOUTH members: This trip is for you!

This camping weekend is for youth members.

We go to the wonderful Forest of Dean and paddle on the River Wye on two days. Ideal for open boats and kayaks.

You need to bring  A tent (or share one with a friend, single sex tents only),  Sleeping bag plus mat  Overnight things  Waterproofs and wellie boots  Canoeing things, which you can pick up from the club on the morning.

We canoe on Saturday afternoon, a fairly long river trip and end up jumping from the Yat rock into the water.

On Sunday we play on the rapids in the morning.

We pitch the big club marquee so that we can all eat together and if it is raining at least we can shelter together.

Pam sorts out all the food and everyone mucks in together to prepare it and then do the clearing up afterwards.

The cost includes the transport, the food for the weekend, campsite fees and paddling on two days.

To book a place talk to Sally or Pam on the desk on Wednesdays or email Pam (pam@dixon.org.uk). A deposit of £10 secures your place.

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Grand Team Event 12th May We had the best ever turnout for our team event this year, with 34 participants and loads of help! It was a great day.

And of course thank you to all the volunteers who came to help - we couldn’t have done it without you!

For the full team list and final scores, please see P10.

Team - The Famous Five

And the winners are:

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Grand Team Event - continued

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Team event continued Continued from P9 Team Name

Participants

Best Run

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The Professionals

Kath N, Ben N, Jack O

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2

JAM

Ian J, Andy L, Mark H

129

3

Woodcutters

Jamie E, Ben L, George M

129

4

The Terrible Trio

Isi M, Gine MBL, Emily E

132

5

Famous Five

Jack K/ Jack S, Sums/Andy V, Tom K

145

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For Real

Emily E, Jane T, Kath N/Stu M

153

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Slowly Sinking

Alex H, Keiran F, Kieran C

156

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Will We Finish?

Dan C, Julia/George, Pam D/Rich C

176

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Team Gertrude

Issy V, Rosie V, Josie D

184

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CCEM

Ertha G, Chloe C, Merryn/Carl G

367

Slalom dates for your calendar 8th/9th June

Langham Farm Slalom. This is a big event in our calendar and we need help to organise it as well as entering an FCC team of competitors.

15th/16th June

Cardington 2/3/4

22nd/23rd June

Shepperton 3/4

29th/30th June

Ogmore Slalom 3/4

Friday evening 5th July Our first Mini slalom of the year, this is a club a club event We hold this at Market Yard and it is a friendly competition with lots of good fun. There are three mini slaloms altogether in this series, and John does the magic figures to work out the overall winners at the end of the season.

Sunday 21st July

Market Yard 4/open . A national competition, very good if you are new to the sport.

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Slalom: a summary of results 4th May Bala K1 Men Div 3

Jack Overhill 8th

K1 Men Div 2

Ben Nicol 11th Andrew Lyall 28th John Kent 32nd Chris Bartlett 34th

5th May Bala K1 Men Div 3

Jack Overhill 17th

K1 Men Div 2

Ben Nicol 3rd Chris Bartlett 11th Andrew Lyall 18th John Kent 31st

18th May Winchester K1 Men Div 4

Jamie Easton 5th Mark Hemmens 9th Alex Hulin 12th

Open

John Kent/Andrew Lyall (C2) 4th

25th May Llandysul K1 Men Div 2

Ben Nicol 7th Chris Bartlett 11th

C2 Div 2/3

John Kent/Andrew Lyall 2nd

K1 Men Div 3

Will Jones 3rd Jack Overhill 4th

26th May Llandysul K1 Men Div 2

Ben Nicol 5th Chris Bartlett 10th Andrew Lyall 16th John Kent 21st

K1 Men Div 3

Jack Overhill 2nd Will Jones 3rd

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Bala Mill Slalom 5th May Ball Mill Slalom (Div 2/3) by Andrew Lyall

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What a long way to Bala - 4½ hours but worth every minute.

Challenging course starts below Bala Mill Falls - 20 gates.

What great weather, mainly dry and not cold - 12oC to 14°C. Despite a few swims Jack Overhill came up smiling - irrepressible and 8th on Saturday.

Ben Nicol coming 3rd on Sunday out of 41 - what a pro, making it look so easy.

Chris Bartlett coming 11th on Sunday - same time as Ben but more penalties. 18 seconds quicker on his second run.

These 10 and 12 year olds are quick round the gates in their little boats. What a great time they are having.

Dave Radmore from Cool Blue Canoes smiling as he won the veterans event.

Richard Davies aged 75 has now done 51 years in slalom and still going.

What a great job Ken Cunliffe did organising the slalom. Everyone got their runs before the water was turned off. A close run thing on Saturday!

Our two over 25 year olds were not disgraced in the division 2 event.

FCC had 5 competitors this year and only 1 in 2010 - what an improvement.

What an excellent B & B Mary and Mike Gareth run (Tel: 01678 521640). 5 minutes walk to the centre of Bala.

Come to the Slalom training Every Wednesday at the Market Yard 7-8pm And talk to Ben Nicol or to John Kent

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Our first in-house canoe course The survey we did last year asked for more canoe skills for members. Our response was a weekend course.

So Stuart organised the Saturday at Market Yard and the Sunday at Langham Farm. It was a great success and we learned a few of the one-hundred forward paddling strokes, some of the turning strokes including the inside pivot turn. It’s a shame Stu forgot the support strokes though, because we needed them on the open boat trip we did at the end of May! Then on the Sunday, in some slightly moving water, we did a bit of ferrygliding. We tried poling which worked well but the tracking and lining was a disaster. We also got to use Neil’s sail but with only a little wind, we didn’t get far.

By way of thanks we gave Stu a thorough drenching - he wasn’t too cross!

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Swimming Coaches on the There were a few red faces (and not from sunburn, though we did have a glorious day!) when a string of calamities made this Open Boat trip a trip to remember!

As with any FCC trip, it operated under the highest of standards with an admirable complement of qualified Coaches. Unfortunately this seems to have created its own problem, with onlookers left flabbergasted by the events that followed.

Andy Vowell, an intrepid white water paddler, said ‘It’s unbelievable really, FCC Coaches are seasoned paddlers, you just wouldn’t expect it to happen – especially on a flattish river with hardly any flow’ As events unfolded an eye witness described seeing Head Coach RICH CARTER drop down over a weir and promptly fall out of his boat – a fellow paddler who asked for his/her anonymity to be preserved said ‘It was just a straightforward drop, a support stroke would have done it.

It’s such a shame, he was just starting to look confident on the water’.

ARTHUR BELBIN had a slightly more disastrous day earning himself 6 points from two swims. Despite being assisted over a weir by a fellow coach he quickly capsized, staying afloat as one onlooker put it ‘for probably less than a minute’. On hearing that this had happened at not one but two weirs, club chairman Alun Jones said ‘we accept that some coaches did struggle today and have put in place an accelerated 14

And no swims for Kath, seen here on Bec with a good brace working well!

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Open Boat trip - 26th May

ckington weir

Anita on Shawford Weir “Yes! I’m back in the boat and no swims for me!”

learning programme for those concerned’.

Another Coach to make a quick exit from her boat was PAM DIXON at Clifford Weir but onlookers said this was in no way a reflection of this respected Coach’s paddling skills ‘Yeah but, no but, it was just one of those things’ said Gareth McGiveron the club’s vice chair.

Unexpectedly, as we are informed by sources close to STUART MILES that ‘Open Boats are his thing’, Stuart earned the most points of the day with TWO SWIMS and a TECHNICAL RESCUE. Having also benefited from the assistance of the Head Coach when shooting a weir, Stuart fell out of his boat and had to be rescued whilst clinging precariously to the weir in question. One concerned onlooker said ‘you could see he was sunk even before he even went over’. To add insult to injury Stuart went overboard again further downstream whilst attempting a ‘stand up and stretch’ manoeuvre. Unfortunately eyewitness accounts are sketchy about this but onlookers agreed ‘it was pretty embarrassing really’.

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Bits and Pieces Continued from P15

Come back Stu - all is forgiven!

course’.

In the meantime Kath Norton who incidentally ACED ALL THE WEIRS, with absolutely no help whatsoever, not even a little bit (don’t believe the eye witness accounts they are not always reliable) has agreed to act as substitute coach until all those above have got their mojo back.

Paddlers and points Ladies: Anita C, Kath N, Pam D (3) and Sarah B Men:

Arthur B (6), Bob B, Chris C, (3), Ivor B (3), Rich C (3), Stu M (8) 2nd place for John and Andrew at Llandysul on Saturday.

Congratulations

Manoeuvre of the month (1) This goes to Ivor Bennett for making his wife laugh so loudly and indeed causing her some pain from laughing, by going over Clifford weir sideways in a canoe and demonstrating a very undignified entry into the water.

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Bits and Pieces Frome Canoe Club organised a slalom event for the South West Region to encourage females into the sport.

The day was attended by 12 people from as far away as Cornwall, Devon and Gloucester. It was a thoroughly successful day.

Thank you, Su, Kath, Isi, Stu, John and Rich for coaching.

Did you know that Frome Canoe Club is being used as an example of good practice, by our PDO (Paddlesport Development Officer).

Apparently he tells other clubs about our Wednesday club sessions and how we organise the groups using the coloured bibs. He advises other clubs to adopt our good practice!

Kate Johnson

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Jack Overhill

15

Scott Hunter

6

Ben Nicol

11

Gareth McGiveron

Arthur Belbin

11

Alun Jones

Rich Carter

11

Keiran Clark

Chris Bartlett

3

6

Alex Nicol

3

6

Dan Carey

3

Jack Smiles

6

Bob Barr

3

9

Zoe Boyle

4

Ivor Bennett

3

Bex Tanti

9

Kieran Fewell

3

Chris Churchouse

3

Bill Fryer

9

Ian Jones

3

Pam Dixon

3

Rich Norman

8

Rich Heal

3

Stuart Miles

8

Hazel Cottle

3

Will Jones George McGiveron

3 2

Carl Gilder Kath Norton

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Ellie Howell

3

Kurt Doel

2

Jonathan Howell

3

Linz Kimber

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Bits and Pieces is Herewith n notificatio is x that Ale ut officially o of the t! basemen

Following the April fools article about the hot tubs in the clubhouse, a flurry of fb conversations relegated Alex to the basement so that we would keep his IT skills in house!

Seems fair enough to let him out now, wouldn’t you say?

Manoeuvre of the month (2) Goes to Chris Churchouse for getting stuck on lip of Clifford Weir and looking really desperate, as the realisation hits him that the outcome will be a wet exit from kayak in very shallow water. Ouch!

For the Langham Farm slalom, 8/9th June.

Every year we raise about £500 for the club by manning a cook tent and we are very grateful for donations of cakes to sell.

If you can do any for us, Pam is happy to have them in the run up to the slalom or bring them on the morning!

We also need help in the cook tent all over the weekend. Drop in and see us!

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George, Gareth and Rich raised £50 for the club by providing safety cover for the Hotchilli Triathlon at Vobster Quay on Saturday.

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Bits and Pieces From front page Arthur after Shawford Weir. Yes, you guessed, he went swimming!

Ed: he also went swimming again at Rode Mill Weir! That’s 6 points today!

£1000 - a massive donation from Frome Town Council towards the purchase and fitting of the roof lights in the upstairs room. Thank you FTC!

Frome Canoe Club is joining with the Frome Activity Day and Bike Jam, 22nd June, to offer canoe sessions to members of the general public.

Can you help us on that day to introduce people to canoeing? We need volunteers to help kit out the participants and competent paddlers to take participants in open boats. Please let Pam know or sign the sheet if you are able to help.

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CONTACTS Chairman Alun Jones 01373 823513 Vice Chair: Gareth McGiveron Treasurer: John Kent 01225 765168 jfkent@blueyonder.co.uk Secretary: Pam Dixon 07740 472982 pam@dixon.org.uk Head Coach: Rich Carter 01373 864623 Youth Reps: Kath Norton and Stu Miles Volunteer Reps: Jonathan Howell and Sally Smiles Kit Officers: Sally and Tim Smiles

2nd prize for Jack (above) and 3rd prize for Will (below) in the K1 Mens Div 3 at Llandysul on 26th May.

www.frome-canoeclub.org.uk

Follow us on facebook Check out the photos of club events on the website. And refer to the calendar for all the club activities.

Canoeing and kayaking are “Assumed risk” – “Water contact sports” that may carry attendant risks. Participants should be aware of and accept these risks, and be responsible for their own action and involvement.

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