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Surf Life Sav­ing WA’s Surf Babies pro­gram kicks off again next month with the next six week series com­menc­ing on Octo­ber 22.

SLSWA is seek­ing two instruc­tors for classes at Mul­laloo beach. Appli­cants will need to be avail­able on Sat­ur­day morn­ings from Octo­ber 22 through until
Novem­ber 26.

Qual­i­fi­ca­tions required:

• A valid SRC (Surf Res­cue Certificate)
• Bronze Medal­lion
• Work­ing with Chil­dren Check, and
• Expe­ri­ence work­ing with children

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion or to apply con­tact Stevee Hud­son at SLSWA via email: shudson@mybeach.com.au or phone: 08 9243 9444

First Bronze and SRC requal is set for Sat­ur­day 5 Novem­ber — more details will soon be available.

Sec­ond requal. is Sun­day 20 Novem­ber and another on Sat­ur­day 10 December.

No need to book atten­dance, just be there!

Veg­emite Sur­f­Groms is a national junior devel­op­ment pro­gram for 5-12yr olds that encour­ages kids to par­tic­i­pate in surfing.

All par­tic­i­pants receive a great Quik­sil­ver pack full of surfgear.

Surf­ing WA is your local Sur­f­Groms deliv­ery centre.

Go to www.surfgroms.com or con­tact Surf­ing WA.

Ph 9448 0004
Email: info@surfingwa.com.au

All good things come to an end, and this Sat­ur­day is the last “offi­cial” Surf­ing WA MLSLC ses­sion.  As adver­tised, the guys will be run­ning an open infor­mal fun com­pe­ti­tion to see how you mea­sure up against each other, and yes I am told that there are prizes!!!!! (But never fear — there will be a par­al­lel learn­ing ses­sion as well).  Please note we may need a cou­ple of vol­un­teers to help judge the comp so vol­un­teers wel­come – (not much) experience needed!!.  Unfor­tu­nately the con­di­tions are not going to be as great as they have been last cou­ple of weeks — an onshore breeze this time, decent swell but pos­si­ble showers.

Although the planned ses­sions are over, the great news is that Surf­ing WA have agreed to offer all Mul­laloo SLSC par­tic­i­pants the chance to to con­tinue in one of their week­end classes as indi­vid­u­als but for $25 per les­son (the usual price is $35).  All the lessons from next week onwards will be at Trigg due to vehi­cle avail­abil­ity.   Week­end lessons start at 9am Sat­ur­day and Sun­day and from Octo­ber a 7am class will begin as well.

Thanks to Dar­ryn and the crew for that, I am sure every­one agrees they have done a great job - please con­tact them to make arrange­ments direct using the details below.

I have also attached a great Surf­ing WA flyer for a great new national pro­gram called Sur­f­Groms for 5 to 12yr olds, for those interested.

I am look­ing into con­tin­u­ing a week or two more myself, with fun ses­sions at Mul­laz and pos­si­bly Lancelin — watch out for emails on this.

For all of you, social and competitors, I can’t rec­om­mend enough con­tin­u­ing with your surf­ing jour­ney — I have been surf­ing for 40 years now and it has not harmed me, despite a cou­ple of close calls!!.  For the kids in com­pe­ti­tion, it teaches wave sense and con­fi­dence and hav­ing just taken an age group through from 10s to 14s with great States results, I can con­firm that it does won­ders for their board skills in comps.

Watch out for more next week — Cheers Jeff

Surf­ing WA con­tacts:

Dar­ryn Quigley
Surf­ing Devel­op­ment Man­ager
Surf­ing West­ern Aus­tralia
T: 08 9448 0004 | M: 0438 561 370  | F: 08 9447 0309

E: coaching@surfingwa.com.au | www.surfingwa.com.au

Surf Life Sav­ing WA will be film­ing three TV com­mer­cials in early Sep­tem­ber and are look­ing for some local surf life­savers to star in the ads. The com­mer­cials will form part of a major media cam­paign for Surf Life Sav­ing WA over the sum­mer months.

The surf life­savers fea­tured in the ad will be required to speak to cam­era and also per­form some typ­i­cal patrol duties i.e. a mock res­cue, a First Aid treat­ment etc.

If you are inter­ested in star­ring in the TV com­mer­cials all you need to do is head to the Surf Life Sav­ing WA Face­book page and either record a video using a web­cam or film and upload a short video (max­i­mum 60 seconds).

Alter­na­tively audi­tion videos can be burnt to a DVD and posted to:

SLSWA TV Com­mer­cial
PO BOX 382
North Beach WA 6920

In the video you will need to state your name, age, club and talk about what Surf Life Sav­ing means to you and what you enjoy about being a member.

To apply you will need to be:

• a cur­rent mem­ber of a WA Surf Life Sav­ing Club and an active patrolling surf lifesaver
• over 18 as at Sep­tem­ber 1, 2011
• avail­able for film­ing between 5th to 9th Sep­tem­ber (in the Perth metro area)
• con­fi­dent, well spo­ken, be neat in appear­ance and be com­fort­able in front of a camera

The suc­cess­ful appli­cants will become the faces of Surf Life Sav­ing WA over sum­mer via the TV com­mer­cials and will need to be good rep­re­sen­ta­tives of our brand in the community.

Appli­ca­tions close Wednes­day 24th August 2011.

For more infor­ma­tion con­tact Maclain at SLSWA on 08 9243 9444 or email: mbruce@mybeach.com.au

Our pro­gram for Win­ter Surf­ing 2011 open to all mem­bers. This year we have elected not to make the fun ses­sions a sub­scrip­tion series, but we will still be pro­vid­ing hot drinks and some club boards will be avail­able as nor­mal.  As usual Jeff will help out with basic surf tuition at the first ses­sions. Please could every­one note that although patrolling club mem­bers are always present, this is not an offi­cially patrolled event nor is it a “drop and for­get”, so the club can­not accept respon­si­bil­ity for the safety of atten­dees (Par­ents are respon­si­ble for their families).

The sec­ond half of the sea­son will see a club tai­lored coach­ing pro­gram run by Surf­ing WA, “sub­ject to inter­est”.  This is an all inclu­sive pack­age inclu­sive of the pro­vi­sion of wet­suits and boards.  Addi­tion­ally, every­one par­tic­i­pat­ing will be awarded a Cer­tifi­cate of Com­pe­tence for their level reached over the pro­gram.  There is an option for a casual rate and that is high­lighted in the sched­ule. Please would all those wish­ing to take this fan­tas­tic offer up please let Jeff Baker know as soon as pos­si­ble by email to jeffnali@optusnet.com.au.

The core loca­tion remains Mul­laloo North Point as usual, but we may vary the fun events in the early part of the pro­gram and as a first event, we are hop­ing to kick off, sub­ject to weather con­di­tions, at Lancelin Back Beach.  Fur­ther details will fol­low, but the (infor­mal) plan is to take the club soft­boards up to Lancelin for a 10am start, surf­ing through to say 12.30 with a BBQ (bring your own food and drink) at 1pm onwards.  After­noon will be “do your own thing” but we can rec­om­mend 4wd in the dunes, sand­board­ing (you can hire boards there) or Desert Storm (Google the website).

Cheers, Jeff Baker

The Ener­flex Step Up for MS is get­ting close and have invited Mul­laloo Surf Life Sav­ing Club mem­bers to get involved.

Reg­is­tra­tions for 2011 are now open. Places are lim­ited. So reg­is­ter today!
There is no bet­ter time than now to get involved — how many choco­late eggs did you eat this Easter?
Stair climb­ing burns about twice as many calo­ries than any other sport or activ­ity which is use­ful when:

- Just one hot cross bun with but­ter con­tains 358 calo­ries (1,500 kilo­joules) and can take a 45-min run to burn it off
- A 200g choco­late egg can take a three-hour jog to burn off

Reg­is­ter now!

If the health ben­e­fits aren’t enough to con­vince you to get involved…help us raise $120,000 for West­ern Aus­tralians liv­ing with MS.

Your gen­er­ous sup­port in rais­ing funds to help those with MS allows us to offer a wide range of ser­vices to all our Mem­bers located across West­ern Aus­tralia. The MS Soci­ety of WA aims to assist every­one affected by MS to live their life to their full poten­tial by pro­vid­ing valu­able care and support.

What an accom­plish­ment last year’s event was; 1,096 stairs and $110,000 raised to sup­port peo­ple liv­ing with mul­ti­ple scle­ro­sis in WA.

3 ways to get involved:

Cre­ate a team — round up your friends, fam­ily, work­mates or sport­ing group. It’s great fun tak­ing the chal­lenge with friends — each team can have up to 4 mem­bers
Join a team - join in an exist­ing team and expe­ri­ence the chal­lenge together. Both the team’s and each individual’s times will be recorded.
Reg­is­ter as an indi­vid­ual — pre­fer to go solo? Reg­is­ter here to con­quer the ver­ti­cal chal­lenge on your own.

What? Where? When? How much?

Date: Sun­day, 29 May, 2011
Where: Cen­tral Park, St Georges Ter­race, Perth
Race time: from 8.00am (check web­site the week of the event for your own start time details)
Race packs: col­lect yours on the day
Dis­tance: 53 flights, or 1096 stairs to the top
Record: 5 min­utes and 25 sec­onds by Paul Crake

Online reg­is­tra­tion fees:
Adults: $35
Juniors (12–17 yrs): $25
MS Adult Mem­bers: $30
MS Junior Mem­bers: $20

Ques­tions?
Please con­tact Jenny or Bep­pie with any ques­tions you may have about reg­is­ter­ing for the 2011 Ener­flex Step Up for MS event. Email us at events@mswa.org.au or call 08 9365 4895.

We hope to see you there!
Jenny & the MSWA Events Team 

The final cir­cu­lar of results from the DHL 2011 Aus­tralian Cham­pi­onships has been released. It can be found by click­ing the below link.

C71/10–11 DHL Aussies Results Circular