The club committee gives notice that the 2015 AGM will be held at the South Brighton SLSC on Bridge Street on the 26th of July 2015 at 2.00pm. An agenda etc. will soon be circulated to members.
The Nippers continue to progress with their winter training at Jelly Park on Sunday nights. If your interested in going along please contact Nicole (ccwhy@xtra.co.nz). New junior members are welcome to attend!
On Sunday afternoons between 4.00pm and 5.00pm the junior surf program has training at Jelly Park pool. Surf winter swim training is a little different to your normal pool training. We do lots of fun stuff which includes swimming with fins, and swimming under an obstacle course made from nets. There are also 2 different types of brick carries and tube rescues. This is a great way to see your club mates over the winter or to get some swim training in before the summer starts.
Russell Ward has volunteered to take the younger or not so confident swimmers . The session time will remain the same, so please be pool side ready to go by 4pm in the rec pool. He has asked that if children have fins, snorkels and googles could they please bring them. Its not a problem if your children does not have these however. From emails we have had a lot of interest from our younger members so we are very lucky to be able to split the groups like this and have Russell taking the kids.
Elsa and myself will be in the sports pool ready to take the older or more experienced swimmers. If your children have fins and googles get them to bring them along This week we will have the nets there and we will be working on obstacles, brick work and swimming with fins.
if you require more information please contact Lewis (lewiskitchen71@gmail.com) or Nicole (ccwhy@xtra.co.nz).
See you all there!
This weekend the Nipper Canterbury champs are going on at New Brighton beach. Get along and support of your at a loose end.
The club prize giving date has been set for March the 28th. This will be a combined Nipper/Senior prize giving. More information to follow shortly.
The club house is about to get a mural downstairs and the changing rooms a touch of paint. Thanks for Bunnings for the materials and the labour!
The Southern Regional Champs were held at New Brighton beach over the weekend. Details are scare at the moment but the club top club in the South Island by 3 points over St Clair. Congratulations to all that competed at New Brighton. As soon as more results are available, they will be posted here. Also thanks to the old timers that manned the patrols whilst the more able were at New Brighton.
A little late, but a video of the last Nippers before Xmas when Santa made a special appearance. Santa reports he has arrived safely back to the South Pole and is resting up for next year.
A team of 10 competitors have just returned from the 2015 Eastern Regional Champs held at Mount Manganui. Highlights from Day One can been seen on the video below:
Just a quick note regarding the carnival at the weekend. For those that attended I am sure you will agree it was an awesome day to be on the beach. It's not often we get the sun, a good we surf and NO wind!! Once again the kids seemed to have a lot of fun and enjoyed themselves testing their abilities against the other clubs. We were slightly down on kids this carnival with about 28 attending (Waikuku last year we had 45) however we were well represented across the majority of the age groups and disciplines.
Again a big thanks to those of you that helped out with the different age groups and with our responsibility to manage the sprint arena.
Hi Team, there are a few families that have inquired about attending the Southern Regional Champs at Warrington at the end of the month. Below is a link to the Surf Life Saving NZ's website that has all of the relevant information.
http://www.surflifesaving.org.nz/calendar/2015/january/southern-region-junior-championships/
As discussed we are not sending a team down as a club this year, however you are more than welcome to make your own arrangements and attend the carnival. The club will enter you and pay the entry fee, the rest will be up to you. For those of you that are wanting to attend can you please email Lewis confirmation by this Friday 23rd at the latest, this is the absolute cut off date. Personally I have not attended this carnival so I am not much help with regard to what goes on and what to expect. However I have had positive comments from those that have attended in the past.
