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***Epic Party!!!***

Hey everyone,

Hope your exams are going well and that the end is in sight! As the end of term draws nearer its time for Warwick Canoe’s take on Sports Ball, only much, much better.

On 27^th June (Thursday Week 10) we will descend on Leamington Rugby Club for a night filled with food, drink, bouncy castle and lots of fun!

There are two ticket options, alcoholic and non-alcoholic, both come with BBQ food, snacks and an open bar (subject to availability).

Alcoholic Signups (£30): https://warwickcanoe.uk/site/trips/trip/549/

Non-Alcoholic Signups (£20): https://warwickcanoe.uk/site/trips/trip/548/

Please Note: By signing up for the trip you are committing to pay!

Canolo Love

Owen, Cameron and everyone else that thinks they’re in charge.

Hi polo players!

I would like to see if anyone’s interested in entering a team for the 21^st London International Canoe Polo Tournament on the 27-28/07/19. The event is held at Danson Park, Bexleyheath. It is a great weekend of polo with a BBQ on the Saturday night.

The link to the tournament info page:

https://webcollect.org.uk/meridian/event/21st-london-international-canoe-polo-tournament?fbclid=IwAR3bORF2kkEddym1VcL3WPkXa1tUu7emfvNdni94OOnyAZGnXXYkIfUIp2I

The entry cost is £100 per team and that includes camping for free!

The team that enters be responsible for the entry fee and transport however as your representing us we will provide kit.

Sign-ups are live on the website for anyone who’s interested in entering a team:

https://warwickcanoe.uk/site/trips/trip/547/

Thanks

Dan and the polo exec

Signups for Surf Trip are now live! The Canoe Club will be returning to Newgale campsite for days of (hopefully) sun, sea, sand, and surf!

Signups are on the website at warwickcanoe.uk/site/trips

T-shirt Doodle is here: doodle.com/poll/snwrwk6bzw4kx32n

Please sign up for both a Leaving AND and a return trip or we will leave you in Wales. Just kidding (sort of)!

We’ll be bringing boats along to hopefully get some surf kayaking in, but it’s mostly just an opportunity to hang out at the end of the year. Don’t forget your camp chairs!

Camping will be £6 per person per night, and feel free to invite your friends :) The campsite has recently upgraded its offerings and now has Free Wi-fi! The trip ticket will also cost £25 to cover everything else. If you plan to bring someone else along, please inform a member of the exec. 

T-shirts will cost ~£12pp (costs cannot be confirmed until the whole order has been placed sorry) and will once again be in a sexy, sexy mystery colour with names chosen by those leaving us this year. 

Paddling Love,

Lara and the Canoe Exec

P.S If anyone has some spare wood for the bonfire, let us know!

Heyo Boyos, it’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for!

*drumroll*

FANTASY LEAGUE ENTRIES are now open! Here are the teams you will be playing in during the tournament:

Team Mario                                Team Luigi                               Team Toad

Jamie      £8,800                           Lewis        £9,010                    Luke         £8,260

Dan         £5,060                           Val            £6,520                    Liam         £7,560

Claudia   £3,090                           Rob           £2,610                    Cameron   £2,800

Elsa        £6,670                           Jonathan   £5,850                    Jake          £5,190

Seb         £6,220                           Alwin         £4,230                    Erik           £4,250

James     £4,390                          Joe            £7,570                    Alpha        £7,830

Hector     £7,500

RULES: You have a maximum of £40,000 to spend on your fantasy team

              No more than 3 players from each team listed here is allowed in a single entry

              Each entry costs £3: £1 to charity, £2 to the winner’s pot

              You may enter as many teams as you like, so long as you pay up!

              The deadline for entering a team to the league is the start of the first RAGE game

              No copycat teams! Whichever of the identical teams is timestamped the earlier owns it

To make sure it’s all fair in what each person knows, these are the final lists of things that will affect an individual’s points:

Positive: Use of all subs in both halves (3), winning a break (points for all in team) (2), no cards (3), reffing (3 fixed per day), scoring (5), blocking (1), appearance (1), ball win (2), goal assist (4), binning (1, successful and legal), saved shot (2).

Negative: Red Card (10), yellow Card (6), green card (3), someone on your team swims (1), any shot outside of the 6m (4).

Your team’s goal difference will also be added to your score!

There will be two Rage games each Tuesday, as follows:

Week 5 (21/05) MvL, MvT

Week 6 (28/05) LvM, LvT

Week 7 (04/06) TvM, TvL

Please submit your entries either on this post, by emailing me (L.Hogan@warwick.ac.uk), or messaging me directly on Facebook.

Have fun! See you soon :)
Your friendly trainee Coach,

Lara

RAGE. IS. BACK.

Our friendly (├░┼©╦£ÔǪ) neighbourhood fantasy tournament is back again for 2019!

For the uninitiated, Rage is a tournament within the club where teams compete against each other for ultimate glory! It works similarly to fantasy football, with people and teams gaining points for more than just goals...(More details on this to follow)

Signups are open now, and will close on Monday night. Games will be in Tuesday’s sessions and are planned to start in Week 5. 

https://warwickcanoe.uk/site/trips/trip/539/

Any questions, feel free to ask below or message me directly on Facebook :)

Happy Paddling!

Your friendly trainee Coach

Lara <3

Hi everyone, by the power invested in me by... You, I declare week 3 social to be
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Drum roll please
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Trampolining!

Next Thursday (May 2nd), the Canoe and Canoe Polo clubs shall be hosting their annual elections. The most democratic event of the year shall commence at 19:30 in upstairs Kelsey's. There will be the opportunity to get pizza from the wonderful Papa Johns, before formal proceedings begin at 21:30.

Formal attire is ABSOLUTELY REQUIRED. Those wearing jeans shall be evacuated from the premises.

If you are running for an executive role, don’t forget to prepare a song (or poem) and a joke, both of which must be performed on the night.

Each club has received multiple presidential nominees, so buckle-down folks and have a read of the manifestos below:

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CANOE

Mr Christopher Thompson

I thought I would never found a sport that I am passionate about (or good at, to some degree; why kayak when you can swim!) until I found kayaking. Upon coming to Uni and discovering such a fantastic club of like-minded enthusiasts. Over the last year helping out the freshers and seeing them progress has given me a new reason to love what I do.

I want to continue the fantastic work of this year’s exec in keeping a fresh rotation of new leaders in order to maintain our successful club trips. Additionally, over the next year I would like to focus more on coaching the old and the new with a renewed effort on improving paddle skills, bracing and edging so that everyone can shred gnar with style; instead of telling them to “Paddle like f**k”, down rapids . With the potential introduction of the CDO it will enable us to engage more with fundraising as a club, with the aim to add more events throughout the year. Finally I would like to have an additional Term 2 trip to CIWW as I believe this would be most beneficial in preparing beginners for Scotland and for peer-paddling trips.

Mr Sebastian Lamb-Camerena

Kayaking at university has introduced me not only to a new sport but also to a fantastic group of people who band together through thick and thin - I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the camaraderie of the club and how everyone works together to solve problems, whether it’s in the heat of the moment rescuing people, boats, and kit out of a river, or anticipating faffy rapids and changing our plan to make sure everyone stays warm and happy running everything.

I’ve made many friends through the club and been given the opportunity to develop myself personally through river trips, pool sessions and training courses. These have let me grow in confidence and develop my leadership skills, which is why I want to ensure these opportunities stay available through the next year, as these are important chances for people to develop their skills to be able to pursue kayaking beyond their university experience.

This year the paddleathon was a huge success: not only did we raise money for a great charity, it’s also contributed to the open and inclusive atmosphere which I love about the club: it allows everyone to feel comfortable with who they are, and presents an inviting environment for new members to try the sport. I want to highlight these qualities of the club at the sports fair and tasters so we can get more people involved. This includes keeping the strong focus we had early in the year with practicing specific skills with freshers, and hopefully introducing some more structured freestyle sessions later in the year.

I’ll be your friendly neighbourhood pres, keeping the good momentum the club has going and enabling personal development.

Mr Liam Fleet

For too long this club has been plagued by presidents who keep offering the same vague hopes of 'good' change. It is all too clear that these student presidents do not have the true leadership qualities that the club demands. 

Instead, I hope to introduce comprehensive reform to truly take this club forward. 

I will first work to remove waste in the exec with three simple steps:

• Firstly, Canoe polo will be run by Canoe.
• Secondly, kit sec will be abolished to encourage more use of personal kit
• Thirdly, coach sec will be replaced with a large sign saying "do better"

Of course, I also plan to introduce measures that will directly benefit club members, these include:

• Duck attendance to be made mandatory with boat and game priority being determined by regular pub attendance
• Diversion of all club money towards the purchase and maintenance of a kayak-carrying 17-seater
• The purchase of 3 door stops to be left by doors leading into the new sports centre

Furthermore, I feel that the quality of trips can be greatly improved with simple and easy adjustments, such as:

• Driver eligibility to be determined on a sports centre - gatehouse - garage time trial
• River groups to be exclusively determined by personality tests to improve cooperation
• All leaders' meetings and all use of river signals banned to improve communication  

I have always been a firm believer that stability is key component of kayaking success and that is why I will be encouraging you to vote not just for me, but for all members of the shadow cabinet on the 2nd May. A united exec is the only way to make these ideas a reality.

The shadow cabinet: strong and stable leadership in the club interest

The Right Honourable PEBBLE

Vote pebble for canoe pres. The future of the club under the presidency of any other candidate can be simply summed up by THIS VIDEO.

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CANOE POLO

Mr Joe Petersen

Since joining the university canoe clubs I have met some amazing people and made some great friends; and, like with most things in life, I doubt I would have persisted in learning a completely different skillset to what I was comfortable with without having all of you great people learning (and swimming) with me.

With that in mind, as president I will aim to increase participation at pool sessions, post pool session pub trips, and most importantly socials! (At this point I would like to note that I have attended more of the above in my first two years than pebble has since the founding of these great clubs).

As president I would like to introduce one dedicated skills session a week to help people develop key skills under our newly trained coach (go Lara!) so that people can work on their polo outside of the pressures of game situations.

Please vote for me! I'd hate to lose to a (small) rock!

The Left Honourable Pebble

If you vote me President of our Great Club I would do what no others would do - Make Canoe Polo Great Again!

After 52% of the vote supporting it, we would secede from the Sports Union* and make our own Sports Hub! With blackjack! And hookers!

FEATURING:

• 4 50 metre pools, only for canoe polo! None of those pesky plastic things…
• Working goals for a bargain deal of only £5999.99!
• Free Parking for All!
• And, most importantly, we will relocate to Llangollen to ensure that all new boats are available asap

* Within two years**

**Assuming we can get the Sports Union to agree to a deal***

***And assuming the exec will also agree to the deal****

****But obviously if they can’t agree we can secede with no deal*****

*****Assuming the exec agree to this******

******And if all of this takes too long we can just extend the time period*******

*******Hmm

Actually, you know what...forget our own Sports Hub...and the blackjack…

Sup paddlers!

Good news! Term is starting so regular kayaking is back!
Two big changes to pool sessions:
We’re in the fancy new sports centre (hype)
AFTERNOONS ARE BACK!!! We will have a Tuesday afternoon Canoe session from 14:30-15:30 every week throughout term. This is a really nice session to just take a break from revision

If you’re interested in what else is going on, see below or get the canoe calendar https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=webmonkey%40warwickcanoe.co.uk&ctz=Europe%2FLondon.
Even better, these dates won’t all change in 3 days time!

Week 1

• Wednesday (24th April) (Tonight)- First pool session back (This will be a polo session for BUCS prep) 20:30
• Thursday (25th April) - Curry at Dama Dam Mast Balti
• Friday - Canoe pool session since polo folk will be at BUCS 20:30
• Friday - Sunday - BUCS Polo WAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRWICK

Week 2

• Thursday (2nd May) - Elections at Kelseys (Remember to get in your applications)
  (rip current exec)
• Sunday (5th May) - Gnardiff International Whitewater Trip (deets to come)

Week 3

• Thursday - Mystery social

Week 4 - Week 7

• Good luck with exams!
• Tuesdays - Polo RAGE (deets to come)

Week 8

• Saturday (15th June) - Skooldayz

Week 9

• Monday - Tuesday (17th-18th June) - First Aid training (deets to come)
• Wednesday - Campus BBQ and Pop!
• Friday - Monday (21st-24th) June - Surf Trip! (deets to come)

Week 10

• Thursday (27th June TBC) - Epic Party!!!!!!!!!!!! (deets to come)

Remember there will also be peer paddling trips happening so get on that page https://www.facebook.com/groups/114042752546347/

Paddling love,

Elsa and the Canoe and Polo execs