Water/Craft Coaching and Training Schedules for Winter 2010
Hi Gang, here's a brief outline of our winter off-season board sessions:
Starting MAY 9, and running through winter except when conditions prevent:
SUNDAY MORNING 8am - 9.15am - Elite competitors: 7-8k set, paddle-back or circuit depending on conditions, focused on power, endurance, and staying in touch with your board over the winter break. Good for all open and gnarly masters competitors, Molokai and other distance race training, etc.
Nipper longboard graduates and trainee open/masters competitors: 4-5k set, circuit working toward paddle-backs, focused on technique (knees and prone) and developing speed and power. Tatey, Floody and I will split these sessions, with help from Brooksy and others when appropriate.
We'll set up ONE OTHER SESSION per week for the Nipper graduates and anyone else who'd like to join in -- this will be a skills and technique based session, probably Weds morning or afternoon, depending on what works for all concerned.
Simon and Glen will formulate a Nippers shortboard off-season schedule and bust it out when they're set.
NOTE: These sessions are not intended as a full prep for carnival racing in 2010/11! If you're a Supergrom-In-Waiting or a budding Masters Hero, you should be doing other stuff as well in order to prepare for the full training/racing schedule next spring and summer.
let's go
xxnc
Water Report from the Aussies at Kurrawa
A HUGE and delighted congratulations to Jan Proudfoot who in very complex and heavy surf WON GOLD IN THE TWO BLUE RIBBON WATER EVENTS. Yes Jan is now Australian Champion of the surf race and the board race. Great stuff also from Kevin Flood who took silver in the iron man, and with Alan Channells, bronze in the double ski race.
The SUPERGROMMETS scored their first Aussies medal with a spectacular silver medal performance in the surf teams! Congratulations to Max Brooks, Peter Euers, Fletcher Davies and Cooper Halligan on this sensational achievement.
Our joy however must be slightly tempered with the tragedy that occurred to Queenscliff's Saxon Bird. Saxon was a great athlete and the supergrommets all knew him well from Ben Davies's swims squads at Warringah Aquatic. All our thoughts and prayers go out to Saxon's family now and in the future.
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Board Use Rules
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Molokai Ocean Paddle held on 26 July 2009
This long distance open-ocean race for stand-up (SUP) and prone paddleboarders is considered the world championship of the sport and draws a field of more than 100 paddlers from around the world each year.
Solo men and women, as well as two-person teams make the arduous 32-mile paddle (55 km) across the storied Molokai (Ka'iwi) Channel in pursuit of paddling's top honor. Along the way they battle tough seas, summer heat, physical and mental limits, and each other.
Five members of Newport competed in two person teams - Nick Carroll & Fletcher Davies, Grahame Tate & Kevin Flood, Michael Kiernan & Tim Woolnough (Tim is member of Mona Vale and regularly trains with us).
Kevin Flood and Grahame Tate: second mens 100+ stock team, 6:26:27
Nick Carroll and Fletcher Davies: fifth elite stock team, 6:27:35
Michael Kiernan and Tim Woolnough: stock team mens 80-99, 7:46:31
Here are a few pics from the trip...
A shot of Nick and Fletch with Hawaii's Dave Parmenter and Todd Bradley at the Outrigger Canoe Club in Waikiki -- we donated the two boards you see in the pic to the OCC's junior program which aids the less fortunate kids to get in the water and learn lifeguarding and surfing skills.
Floody and Tatey: second mens 100+ stock team
Nick and Fletch: fifth elite stock team
Honolua Ocean 8.5km Paddle Race - Newport Success
Congratulations to Fletcher Davies (winner of junior men), Nick Carroll (first: over 40 Men), Grahame Tate (second: over 40 Men) and Kevin Flood (second: over 50 men). The guys raced from Snapper Rocks following the coastline north and finished at Currumbin Creek.
Report from Surfing Queensland here
