Nippers News Letter January 2011

Happy New Year to all our parents and Nippers. It has been great to see so many of you back on the beach after our break and also tosee so many new families as well. Welcome to our program.                                                        

The carnivals are great fun, generally run very well by Life Saving Victoria and the kids get a huge thrill from being part of such a large event. You can register for the carnival by putting your child's name and DOB on the white board at the clubhouse or by emailing me at this address. If you have any queries please speak to your child's coach at training. 

On carnival days we still run a modified training session at Black Rock but as many of the coaches attend the carnivals any extra parent help we can get is appreciated.

Dates for your diary 

Saturday 29th January- Junior Sleepover at the Clubhouse

Starting at 7.30pm, we will meet at the clubhouse after dinner. Movies and popcorn for the kids, lights out at 10.30pm. Bacon and eggs for breakfast on the deck. All children attending will need to be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Cost $5 per child.

Saturday 19th Feb- Trivia Night. One of the best nights on the club calendar. Come and have a drink and a laugh with other nipper parents and test your trivia knowledge against the club seniors. To RSVP or for more details see the whiteboard in the clubhouse.

Coaches reports.

Under 5 and 6

Under 7 and 8

Everyone is progressing well and developing new skills on the beach as well as in the water. We have a lot of keen paddlers and we have been practicing board starts as well as having some fun board races. Many of the nippers in this group are now confident paddling out around the white markers and we also have a lot of proud parents cheering them on. The focus for the next couple of weeks leading up to the metro carnivals will be to work on flags, sprints and wading.

(The following YouTube clip was recommended to me. Great viewing for any budding beach flag competitors with some good slow motion sequences...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBkrYakqC7M

Under 9/ 10/11

"We are concentrating on swimming at the moment to ensure the children are able to swim the distances required for S badges. We have started swimming around the white markers and many of the children are gaining confidence in the open water”    

Under 12/13/14

- Kev           

Junior Competition Squad 

What a great day we had at the junior carnival at Cosy Corner, Torquay!  Again parents and siblings alike all got into it and enjoyed the action. Our Junior competitors should be very proud of themselves as all showed new skills, speed and good technique picked up during the extra summer training which helped them achieve personal goals. Show stopping races were performed by Ebony Francis who came 1st in Girls U8 Flags, Sprint and Wade Race. It is worth mentioning that all Black Rock competitors earned championship points for our club by placing in the top 6 in at least one individual event. It was great to see such a fantastic effort and collaboration from all of our Age Managers and parents organizing our competitors into composite teams and stepping in to assist LSV officials with marshalling and recording place getters. A special thanks to the Wallis's and the Fawcett's for transporting and setting up our Black Rock marquee.
Brilliant effort Black Rock!

Looking forward to our third 

carnival for the season at 

Elwood.

- Nikolai

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