Alps is coming up, semester is coming to a close but kayaking is still very much active. This challenge will be set up in order encouragement engagement in the club, help with organising river trips, seek new river skills, new rivers and becoming more educated in general with good river practise. Come September we'll be knee deep into a new semester with a whole bunch of new freshers to look after, so it would be great to get people more in the loop with planning river trips, learning skills and improving your own paddling.
Many hands make light work am I right?
Here are some rules;
- 1) Comment below saying when you've completed something. Get someone else to second it and you'll both get points. It can work as well if someone has helped you can get them points and they just have to second. It would be great for encouragement
- 2) This is completely different from the Phoenix strava challenge. Strava will be used to record some of the points so make sure you've liked ULKC on strava.
- 3) Everyone can organise a river trip and is encouraged to do so. Whether is outback, castle connell or further away. See below for the check list and river rules for safety
- 4) All the links can be edited by anyone. It would be a great help if you could help with the leaderboard, but don't worry if you can't
- 5) Prizes will be won.
- 6) Time frame; hoping to wrap this up before the alps so the big winner, winner can have the gear for the alps
https://forms.gle/ibJG4QF1vbweVE6b7
Leaderboard link;
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... edit#gid=0
Ways to get points;
Club organisation;
- 20 points- drive to a river.
(if its a club trip you can be compensated for petrol. Here's a link to submit your receipts; https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIp ... w/viewform)
- 20 points- organise a river trip.
Here's a link for a check list if you're unsure how to do it; https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aFU ... vgh7k/edit
Here's how to get club permissions; viewtopic.php?f=78&t=20215
Here's Safety officer's number - 0894117221
Here's Captain number - 0877443053
It's good to keep these in your phone to contact them.
- 5 points- Run a new polo drill in the pool
- 5 points- go outback
- 10 points- get more than 5 people outback at one time
- 10 points- two pool sessions in one week
- 15 points- three pool sessions in one week
Instructing;
- 10 points- help someone get a new skills.
This isn't just for advanced members, it could be as much as showing someone forward/ backwards stroke. This section is if they get it It will encourage instructors to invest time in other members
- 20 points- Do a canoeing Ireland instructorship course.
Kirsten can help you here, we're always trying to get more people involved.
- 10 points- complete your hours and be signed off as an instructor. Hiphip horray
- 5 points- encourage someone to learn a new skill on a river and explain it and set up safety for them to try a new skills.
This is great for learning stern squirts, surfing, how to skull, how to read water, how to use the water, How to catch eddies, how to lean with the flow to help you go in a particular direction, BOOFs
Individual skills;
Learn a new skills.
Got something you've been working on for ages???? Well now after the reward of finally getting it, you also get points for it. It starts from now onwards.
Skills list includes;
Safety; 10 points
- T rescue
Z rescue
Unconscious rescue
Roll
Off side roll
Z drags
3 new knots
Freestyle; 10 points
- Double pump
Bow stall
Cartwheel
Splitwheel
Loop
Back decks
Other advanced freestyle moves (I can't be arsed writing them out)
- Polo shots 5 in a row
Hand roll
Roll with the ball
Keeping the boat straight while shooting
As per strava- 5 points
- Get on the top 10 leader board for outback
Get on the top 10 leader board for bridge to slip
Over take someone on the top 3 for any of these challenges
Defend your title- be in the top 3 and take it back
Safetyyyyy.
This is the MOST important thing in kayaking hence why it'll be big points.
Will count anything this academic year. Its your responsibility to comment below and get it seconded.
- 20 points- do a REC course
- 20 points- do a first aid course
- 20 points- become a leader
Feel free to ask Kirsten and Adam what you need in order to get you there. Can offer individual feedback.
- 15 points- become a second
Feel free to ask Kirsten and Adam what you need in order to get you there. Can offer individual feedback.
- 10 points- make a difficult call for safety.
I shall explain. We all love whitewater, we all love paddling. However, sometimes the stars just don't align. Sometimes you're not in the mental space to go paddling, someones the river is flowing too much and your safety team is borderline. Sometimes someone's had a big night and insisting on going paddling the next day.
This section is to applaud these times where it just sucks. You may have to get off the river. You make have to say to someone its not your day. You may have to accept yourself that it isn't your day. This is the hardest part about paddling. But its a very, very important part.
To acknowledge that the whole group wants to charge something, but something is telling you not to .
This is not to discourage paddling. This is not to scare people. This it to NOT discourage learning new skills, leaders are leaders because they know what it safe and what is not.
You can message me and explain this situation and It'll sick it up.
This is to help everyone fulfil their roles and realise that a club can't survive unless everyone helps a little.
- 5 points- Help run a polo session of Tuesday
- 10 points- help quippy fix a boat
- 5 points- move boats from one place to another
Boats are always need to be shuffled in and out. of the pool, from houses to the sheds. This is to say a pickling big thank you for this!
- 5 points- help tie boats and the trailer
- 5 points- help organize boats in the sprinters
I've definitely missed some great points here and would love some inspiration, just comment below.
