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Frome Canoe Club is affiliated to the British Canoe Union and is a Registered Charity (Number 1104728)

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P6/7 for information about pool sessions

Volume 38 Issue 10: October 2014

CONGRATULATIONS GEORGE and PAM

George picks up Young Volunteer Award of the Year, South West Region, and Pam gets the Community Award of the Year.

WYE RAPIDS P12 for report

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In this issue

3 Calendar in brief

4 River Barle trip

4 Dart Weekend

4 River Frome trip

4 Afternoon paddles

5 River Exe trip

5 Picnic in Rodden Meadow

5 Pool games on Halloween

6 Winter club programme

7 Pool sessions

14 Christmas meal

14 Coaches meeting

10 Dodgy paddling, dodgy judging and new boats by Su F

8 Starwars light sabre challenge

12 Wye Rapids by Rich C

15 Copper Noseclip Points

CALENDAR: details

REPORTS

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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

Richard Heal

Jonathan Howell

Tracey Lemon

Stuart Miles

Kit Officers

Tim and Sally Smiles

SLALOM

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Calendar 2014


Date Event Standard Contact

October

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Moving water weekend Passport/One Star (+ 10 years or over)

Pam D

10 FIRST POOL SESSION All Pam D

11 Rodden Meadow - a picnic All Pam D

15 Coaches’ Meeting Volunteers Rich C

17 Polo at the Pool (contact game) All Jack S

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River Barle A good One Star + moving water training

Gareth M

24 Polo at the Pool (non contact) All Jack S

25 Afternoon paddle at the club All Rich C

31 Pool session: a Games night with a Halloween theme

All Pam D

November

2 River Exe One Star + moving wa-ter training

Rich C

14 Polo at the Pool (contact) All Jack S

15/16 Dart Weekend Passport/One Star (+ 10 years or over)

Pam D

21 Polo at the Pool (non contact All Jack s

28 Pool session: a games night All Pam D

30 Local trip Passport/One Star John K

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

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Calendar in detail

Carl, Kurt and Neil on the Allta Chourinn, a steep rockslide in Glen Etive.


DART WEEKEND

15/16th November Meet Market Yard : 8am £40

A weekend paddling the beautiful River Dart. There are three sections we can do:

Upper - for crazy people

Loop - for 2 Star + paddlers

Lower - for less experienced

When you sign up, let us know the section you want to do.

We stay in Powdermills Bunkhouse overnight. You need to bring a sleeping bag .

The cost of this trip includes trans-port , accommodation and food (except Saturday lunch, so bring a packed lunch.)

RIVER BARLE TRIP

19th October 8am at the Market Yard Cost £12 Organiser : Gareth Mc Giveron

This is a beautiful river on Exmoor, graded at 2. It has rapids almost all the way down and is a good river if you have just done the Tiverton Training weekend.

You need to be 10 years old or over and be a good One Star standard (able to wear a spray deck) or above. Bring a packed lunch, warm clothes and borrow any club kit you need.

AFTERNOON PADDLES

AT THE CLUBHOUSE

EVERY OTHER WEEKEND

Saturdays: 25th Oct, 8th Nov, 22nd Nov 2– 4 pm

EVERYONE WELCOME!

RIVER FROME TRIP

30th November 9am at the Market Yard Cost £3 Organiser : John Kent

A local trip, exact stretch to be decided on the day. Whichever we choose, it will be a good trip. But could be cold so come pre-pared with plenty of warm clothes and a good packed lunch. Borrow any club kit you need on the morning.

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Carl, Kurt and Neil on the Allta Chourinn, a steep rockslide in Glen Etive.


Calendar in detail

POOL GAMES, WITH A

HALLOWEEN

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FRIDAY 31st 8pm at the Pool

We will use the first half hour for some games. Everyone will be

able to join in.

We won’t ask you to come in fancy dress though - so that’s a relief, I hear you say!

PICNIC IN RODDEN MEADOW

11th October A canoe trip 11.30 to 2pm We are going to join in the Frome Town Council’s Silly Meadow Games! So meet at 12 noon. Paddle to Rodden Meadow. Have a picnic. Join in the

games they are organising including a climbing wall, walking football, human skittles and the world’s first dry synchronised swimming championship! Could be fun! Certainly a bit different. IDEAL FOR YOUTH MEMBERS

RIVER EXE TRIP

2nd November 8am at the Market Yard Cost £12 Organiser : Rich Carter

This is a beautiful river on Exmoor, graded at 1/2. It has rapids and weirs and is the one we used for the Tiverton Training weekend.

You need to be 10 years old or over and be a good One Star standard (able to wear a spray deck), or above. Bring a packed lunch, warm clothes and borrow any club kit you need on the morning.

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What happens through the winter?


CONTINUE TO MEET AT THE CLUBHOUSE Open house every Wednesday We meet through the winter on Wednesdays, just to catch up with each other and see what’s going on. Some people paddle till it gets too dark to see. But the sessions are not organ-ised. So you need to be a competent paddler and go in a group of at least three. Or approach a coach and ask if they will go with you!

SLALOM TRAINING Switches from Tuesday evenings to Wednesday and keeps going as long as people are happy to train as the days get shorter.

POOL SESSIONS START OCTOBER 10th Frome Leisure Centre Fridays, 8-9pm Cost £2.80 young people, £3.30 Adults

The pool session will be divided into two, so you get half an hour in the pool kayaking. Bring a swimming costume and towel. We provide the boats, paddles and spray decks. We don’t wear helmets and buoyancy aids in pool sessions. It’s easy.

Deliberate sinking of boats is not encouraged, because it puts people’s backs at risk when they empty flooded boats. Normal pool rules apply and so we do what the lifeguards say.

Pool sessions are for everyone!

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Pool sessions are for ...

HAVING FUN You can paddle about with your friends, or practise some play moves at the deep end. We have a Sit on Top and a couple of play-boats for you to use. You will get a guaranteed half hour in the pool. Once a month we will devote one session to playing games!

PLAYING CANOE POLO Once a month we will organise two polo games: one for experienced paddlers (contact game), and the other for less experienced paddlers (non contact game). Polo is really good fun! It improves paddling fitness because of the speed of action and it improves paddling skills. The contact game will be at 8.30pm (ie the second paddling session). The non contact game will be at 8pm (ie the first paddling session of the night). We use the club pool boats and we provide the specialist kit (helmets, BAs and paddles).

LEARNING SKILLS (CAPSIZE DRILL, RESCUES, ROLLING ETC You can book an instructor for a part of a session by signing the booking sheet when you pay at the desk. Then in the pool, you ask the instructor to help you with whatever you want to learn!

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Starwars light sabre challenge

Order of action

Team name Participants Final position

Team 1 Modern day Darth Vaders

Finn J, Otto J, Jacob L 6th

Team 2 Skywalkers Theo M, Jos M, Joe W 4th

Team 3 Team KAC Kieran F, Amy C, Chloe C 2nd

Team 4 The Clones Nazca H, Ben H, Chloe H 5th

Team 5 The Posers Chloe M, Rich C 1st

Team 6 Frome Home Guard

David P, Mark H 3rd

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The day went something like this: Round everyone up for photo opportunity. Not easy! People keep disappearing. Explain the challenge: whacking poles, hula-hoops, throwing balls, picking up balls and so on. Teams compete against the clock. Tracey does the judging of outfits. Prize winners collect winnings! People get back in boats for a bit more fun. Chaos ensues with water pistols and general capsizing. It was a good day!

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Dodgy paddling, dodgy judging and new boats


CARDINGTON

SLALOM

30/31st August

By Su Fewell

Cardington, for those who don’t know, is Britain’s first artificial

slalom course, created from a drainage ditch near Bedford. John, Kieran F, Kei-ran C, Chloe Collins, Aimee Collins and myself went to compete there at the end of August.

Our runs varied enormously on both days, with Kieran F paddling first to put in a slow, but fairly clean, first run, backed up by a more promising second run, where he showed some of the form we had seen earlier in the year. John was next, in the same division, his first run was fast and clear, but overall better second runs from all and a mistake in the evil stagger from gates 14 to 17, left him lagging.

My first run is best not mentioned, but my second was masterful, second only to Rich’s C1 run at Winchester, and, hey, I saved everyone else from having to come last! Kieran C was our next paddler and just failed to get it together for the whole first run, which earned him the prize of a little ‘pep’ talk during lunch. I don’t remember what I said, but I should say it more often as Kieran’s

second run was an awesome 30 sec-onds faster than his first and was only marred by a brief run in with a plastic bollard, earning him 11th out of 39 overall.

The girls brought up the rear, with Chloe’s first run falling victim to the evil stagger in the latter part of the course, and a better second run looked promising until the results were out and we discovered that Chloe had been given the wrong penalty on gate 10. So whilst John and I paid a short, and not so sweet, visit to control to sort that out, Aimee took to the water to show us how it is meant to be done.

She made light work of the early gates, but a mistake at gate 16, on her first run, and lucky correction, almost sent John and me to early graves. For her second run she skipped and twirled her way down the course, weaved some sort of magic on the evil stagger and finished in 4th place over-all.

As is now usual, Saturday concluded with a restaurant visit, where we watched all 3 teenagers eat their own body weight in pizza

Sunday dawned bright, and far too early. First runs were interesting, with John picking up a 50 and both Kieran F and Chloe making silly mistakes,

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Dodgy paddling … continued

although the promise of a new boat seemed to have improved Chloe’s concentration. Somewhere in the chaos I also found myself buying a new boat, not that it improved anything in my paddling, it did give me the excuse I needed to come last again, though, as the darn thing is just too quick!

Keiran C found the form we always knew he had on the Sunday, to put in a fantastically fast time, but a few penalties left him in 11th after first runs. Aimee’s first run saw her manage the final gates with style, but an early mistake cost her dearly.

Second runs saw an awesome, and very lucky, head-rolling manoeuvre from Kieran F, although a slow time left him in 38th place. John’s second run was also a vast improvement, but a strong field meant he fared no better in the placings than Kieran F.

Keiran C built on the form he had shown earlier, clearing the stagger with style to take a very well deserved 11th overall (618 points) and he was chased down the course by Chloe, on her way to 3rd

place and promotion to Div 2. Aimee took to the water for her last run, making good progress down the first half of the course, until an octopus surfaced at gate 15. Despite frantic back-paddling, a few playboat manoeuvres and whopping it with her paddle, there was no avoiding the little sucker and poor Aimee took a swim, almost getting Kieran F disqualified in the process as he jumped over the

safety barrier without his helmet.

Once again, Frome was complimented on behaviour, sportsmanship and helpfulness of our teenagers, which is such a regular thing

that I am getting blasé about it, but I would like to say ‘Thank You’ to all of them for making slaloms such an en-joyable time for everyone.

Our next outing is Symonds Yat Div 2/3, followed by Shepperton, and we can only hope Kieran F can train hard enough to keep Keiran C off his heels for the rest of the year.

Aimee at Cardington

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Wye rapids, 21st September


The Wye Rapids

By Rich Carter On a slightly chilly morning we gath-ered at the club house for a day’s pad-dling on the Wye rapids at Symonds Yat. There were ten of us. The plan was to be at the get in 10am, but we arrived at 10.30am. Not to worry. Our President was there and had buttered up the car park organ-iser, so car spaces were reserved next to his car, and we had a space for the trailer as well. Nice One Graham!

The morning session was a bit busy. Well that is an understatement: it was packed. We had a number of newish paddlers, to be precise three 9 year olds and two 15 year olds. The other young people, Chloe and Keiran, knew what they were doing, so I left them to their own devices. All I can say is the three very small 9 year olds flew around the water, making the adult beginner from other clubs a

bit nervous. But our three just paddled around them, to the point where

people came up to us and said how good they were. Charlie and Ollie getting to grips with leaning downstream for moving water, were a bit confused when I said lean up stream going in to a eddy. They did manage though as they battled through the hoards. Chloe and Keiran were left to play around which

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Wye rapids continued


did include sinking each other. After lunch it was a lot better with not

so many paddlers. So we finished the day swimming the rapid and on our return to the get off point there was the let’s sink Rich game. Thanks gang! Paddlers and Points Girls: Aimee C, Chloe C, Chloe H (3) Boys: Charlie L, Jos M (3), Keiran C, Ollie H (3)

Women: Pam D Men: Dave P (3), Graham W, Rich C

We also met on the day John, Andrew and Lorraine who were doing slalom practice in the C2. Final words from Rich: Thanks for a great day but I was very tired all day Monday. Sadly I am not 22 anymore, as I told Jos I was.

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Bits and Pieces

Get all your canoeing

things from the Fam-

ily Adventure Store at

Hilperton. BA14 7PJ

Have you spotted that pool sessions timings have changed?

You get a full half hour in the water this winter. See p6/7 for more.

From Linz

Is it too early to mention Christmas?

Well......Here goes......I've booked the Whiterow Farm Shop on the Beckington roundabout for our Christmas meal this

year.

Saturday 13th December at 7/7:30pm. Places are limited so we need your name and £5 deposit to secure your place.

Children are welcome but must be accompanied by their

parents please.

Price is £24.50

When we get a bit closer to the time we can think about sharing taxi/minibus from Frome if enough people are interested.

COACHES MEETING

15th October 7pm at the Clubhouse Organiser Rich C This meeting is to review, analyse, discuss, cogitate, call it what you will, the summer season of club sessions.

Come if you have helped over the summer to give us your ideas and suggestions for improvements etc.

THREE STAR PASSES Kate Johnson Kieran Fewell

Ian Jones Chris Williams

Ryan Cox Congratulations to you all for achieving passes at Three Star. Not easy! And a big thank you to Yousaf, who coached through the summer and got them ready for the test. And thanks to Rich for doing the assessment.

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Points - the scores so far!


Zoe Boyle 20

Ian Jones 19

Bex Tanti 15

Bill Fryer 12

Rich Norman 11

Rich Carter 10

Rich Heal 9

Gareth McGiveron 9

Carl Gilder 9

Alun Jones 9

Kath Norton 6

Caroline Toogood 6

Su Fewell 5

Jack Smiles 5

Chloe Humphris 3

Ollie Hale 3

Dave Pilbeam 3

Stuart Miles 3

Arthur Belbin 3

Jane Thomas 3

Jack Kimber 3

Ben Trippick 3

Jonathan Howell 3

Pam Dixon 3

Bob Barr 3

Kien Christmas 3

Julia McGiveron 3

Mike Hickson 3

Aimee Collins 3

Ben Nicol 1

Andy Vowell 1

Mark Baines 1

Here are the POINTS so far this year. With the approach of the winter season, we can expect this table to alter just a bit! Tiverton weekend coming up is bound to change everything for starters.

What is this points thing about? It’s really just a bit of fun. We award 3 points to paddlers who take a swim in club events. If people roll, they gain 1 point. A paddler who needs a rescue wins 2 points. At the end of the year we count them all up and then award the Copper Noseclip to the person with the most points.

If you are interested, our winner for 2013 was Gareth, with a grand score of 30!

However, it needs to be stressed that we recognise the gaining of points means paddlers have been trying! So it not totally ‘bad’ to be on this list!

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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.

Chloe and Rich about to do the hula-hoop routine, whilst under attack from water pistols! P8 for report.

A very successful work party!

Gate post was replaced and gate re-hung. More dog-proof netting was fixed. Graffiti was sorted. Changing room floors were cleaned. And there was time to stand and chat! Thank you everyone!

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CONTACTS

Chairman Alun Jones 01373 823513

Vice Chair: Gareth McGiveron

Treasurer: John Kent 01225 765168 [email protected]

Secretary: Pam Dixon 07740 472982 [email protected]

Head Coach: Rich Carter 01373 864623

Youth Reps: Tracey Lemon and Stuart Miles

Volunteer Rep: Jonathan Howell Kit: Sally and Tim Smiles, assisted by Tracey Lemon

2014 10 newsletter

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