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Welcome to SLSA Wales...
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News
March 9th - The Mars Refuel Fund is open again and will be giving away £10,000 each month until May to clubs or individuals. The maximum grant is £500. It’s quite straight forward to apply and The Conwy Whales have already been successful in Conwy in securing £500, and are now even displayed on their funding page! All information can be found at http://www.marsrefuel.com/refuel-fund/
March 8th - Aberavon Nipper Carnival has been added to the Calendar
March 7th - Entry Forms, Rules and Information for the 2010 Nipper Still Water Championships 2010 can be found HERE
March 5th - A new order form for Nipper Camp T-shirts is now available. Please find the form HERE
March 5th - Below are two team pictures of the Development trip to Australia 2010. A full report will be published on the website later.
March 5th - Liz Thomas is providing an Introduction to Stillwater Officials Course at Aberavon clubhouse on Tuesday 16th March at 7pm. Please support Liz and S.L.S.A. Wales by confirming your interest to attend thomaskinsale@hotmail.com
March 3rd - SLSA Wales has introduced new CRB Code of Conduct and CRB Disciplinary Policies. Clubs must ensure that anyone working with Nippers and Juniors has signed a Code of Document document. This ensures that coaches and helpers understand what behaviour is expected of them. The policies can be found HERE
March 3rd - SLSA Wales are running a NARS Training Course in Tenby on April 7th to the 11th. Please find more details HERE
March 1st - The Febuary Mailing is HERE
March 1st - James Edwards is a senior member of Llantwit Major SLSC and also an SLSA Wales Senior Team Member. James is currently on a Welsh Development tour to Australia. We have been notified of James achieving 2 Golds and One Bronze medal in the Central Coast Branch Championships. At that event he was asked to consider an extended stay in Australia to compete in the National Titles event in Queensland at the end of March. James has been kindly offered the assistance of a top Coach and has reported back that he is training hard and progressing well. James is making arrangements to stay on - if he is allowed to compete. He is receiving excellent hospitality from Avoca and intends to accept their kind invite to train and travel with them. As President of SLSA Wales I have been pleased to give permission for him to represent Wales at those championships and we wish James every success. Peter Lake
February 28th - SLSA Wales would like to here from any Member who would like to become Treasurer prior to the AGM in March. This is a Board of Management position. If you are interested please contact secretary@slsawales.org
February 27th - New Awards Manual
The 2010 Awards Manual is now available to members. Email our Membership Secretary: philrees2003@yahoo.co.uk quotating your membership number for your free copy.
February 24th - Board of Management and Technical Commission meetings added to the Calendar.
February 12th - The results to our recent stillwater championships are now available HERE
February 7th - SLSA Wales is preparing its Annual General Report. Can all clubs please ensure that they make their Rescue Statistics Return as soon as possible.
February 7th - SLSA Wales Pin Badges available HERE
February 6th - Nipper Camp 2010 information has been added to the website HERE
February 6th - Please find HERE the agenda for the AGM meeting and HERE a nominations for Office form.
February 6th - Mumbles Nipper Carnival has been added to the Calendar
February 1st - SLSA Wales AGM for 2009/10 has been set for March 28th @ 14:00 @ Aberavon SLSC. An information pack on the AGM will be sent out closer to the date.
February 1st - Important changes to Welsh Championships and Welsh Teams The following changes will be introduced for the Ocean Championships in 2010, with the aim of creating better competition and also to improve the overall standard of Welsh competitors.
1. Competitors will compete under the following age groups:
Under 14 (Under 13 and Under 14 will now compete under one age group)
Under 16 (Under 15 and Under 16 will now compete under one age group)
Under 19 (Remains the same as previous years)
2. Previously the Welsh Selectors have selected 4 competitors from each sex and age group. The Team will be increased to 6 competitors from each sex and age group from 2010. The aim is to encourage more competitors to attend ranking events, and therefore increase the competition for Welsh caps.
3. The Celtic Cup and Youth Challenge will from 2010 be held on the same date and venue. Under-19 competitors selected for both the Youth and Senior teams, will have to choose which team they would like to represent, as they will no longer be able to compete for both teams.
January 26th - The Calander of events has been further updated to include the Nipper Camp and Junior Training Weekend.
January 24th - The Calendar of Events has now been updated.
January 24th - New rules on Swimming Costumes (with effect from 1st January 2010). Following a competition commission meeting, it was decided S.LS.A. Wales would comply with the new swimming costume changes. The new rules aim to ban swim suits that give an "unfair advantage" to swimmers. This can be from buoyancy or muscle support. The new rule also bans suits extending beyond the shoulder or the ankle (so no sleeves or feet). These rules came into effect on 1st January 2010.
The competitor must only wear one swimsuit, in one or two pieces which:
1. For men (boys) shall not extend above the navel or below the knee or (i.e. NO body suits at all)
2. For women (girls) shall not cover the neck, extend past the shoulder, nor shall extend below the knee.
3. All swimsuits shall be made of textile materials. (This has yet to be defined but is taken to mean porous - no more rubber or part rubber suits and no Zips).
4. All swimsuits must be listed on FINA's List of Approved Swimsuits on the day of competition and worn without modification
January 15th - As you may have been aware the Aquadome has had a fire and is un-usable. The second meeting of the Pool Mini League is now arranged for Saturday 30th January at Ynysawdre Pool (Near Bridgend just off J36 M4)at 5.00pm (4.45 registration). All clubs must bring their own Manikin, Torpedo and rope as the association equipment was damaged in the fire.
January 9th - The Sports Council of Wales run many courses for clubs and club memebers to update their skills. Please find details of courses in North Wales HERE, and South Wales HERE. As well as booking information HERE.
January 9th - We are preparing our Annual Report so could all clubs please make sure that they complete thier incident statistics as soon as possible.
January 9th - A big thank you to all the users of our website. Last year we had over 133,000 visits to the site. This year could all clubs review the Clubs section and send in updates so that we can keep building the site and making it what you want. We shall soon be issuing another website survey and welcome all your views.
January 9th - Please note that the St David Mass Exam has moved from June to July 1st and dates have been added to the calendar for Technical Commission Meetings in Febuary and March.
January 9th - The December Mailing has been added to the Communications section of the site HERE
January 3rd - The winter stillwater season is upon us and here is the first set of information in anticiption of the entry forms being made available in the near future. HERE you will find the rule book, HERE the entry forms and finally HERE the information pack.
January 3rd - After a December hiatus SLSA Wales are pleased to wish all our members and associates a Happy New Year. The website will be updated this month with meetings and events for the coming year.
November 14th - S.L.S.A. of Wales Pool Mini League Series 2010
3 Meeting Series, (Dec. 6th Jan. 31st Feb. 28th ) Dates to be confirmed
1st Meeting @ Aberavon 5.15 pm Registration & 5.30pm Start
Category-Open
(Junior/Master teams will be highlighted in League but not scored separately), Team Size-Min 6 Max 8, All teams & Members must be S.L.S.A. of Wales Registered, Cost £35/Team
Events:
1) 8*50m Obstacle Relay
2) 3*3 Line Throw
3) 6*50m Combined Medley Relay
4) 6*25m Manikin Relay
5) 6*50m Rescue tube Relay
Please note that due to the high numbers, entries will be restricted and Pre-Registration and Payment will be required.
For more Details Contact: Michael Childs: Tel. 01656 742420, Mob. 07973 168574, mail@childsplaysurf.co.uk
October 24th - SLSA Wales Presentation Evening 2009 Another fantastic Evening took place at The High Tide Venue at Porthcawl on October the 10th with special thanks to James Marks for once again organising the Event.
The Guests of Honour this year were Mr & Mrs Warren Mitchell who is the President of the European Power Craft Commission and we thank Warren for travelling down from Derbyshire, for his speech of support and being involved with the Presentations.
The evning was a great success and served as an excellent celebration of Surf Life Saving and for SLSA Wales in its first year as a National Governing Body.
Our Surf Lifesaver of the Year award goes to Gary Pyke for his work on the Board of Management, support of the Powercraft Commission and his work on the website. His award was presented to him by Peter Lake - President and Pat Thomas - Vice Chairman.
SLSA Wales award Humanitarian awards to Arron Hughs and Nicole Davenport whos award was recieved by her mum. And for his advanced escapology work the special award was presented to Chris Parry by Warren Mitchell for his promotion of SLSA Wales this year.
Below, Pat Thomas Presents Porthcawl With The Nipper Club Of The Year Award and Jon Gwyn Chair of the Competition Commission presents Rhoose, Chairman Jake Bremner The Super Club Of The Year Trophy and Rest Bay with the Stillwater Masters Shield.
The following photographs show the victorious European IRB Team, some Welsh Team Members from the Celtic Cup International and the French Championships Tour in September 09.
Peter Lake - President send congratulations to all our winners and members who have made this a fantastic year and thanks to Andrew Sparks of Prints for Wales for all the photographs.
October 24th - SLSA Wales requires a qualified accountant to prepare and audit its accounts. If there is anybody out there who could do this service on a voluntry basis could they email treasurer@slsawales,org and offer their services please.
