Surf Sisters Mermaid FestivalCome and Try!

Friday 22 January – 4-8pm.

Henley SLSC is hosting this special SLSSA twilight event aimed at encouraging female participants to enjoy surf sports in a fun and relaxed environment. The event is open to all levels (clubbies and general public).

Interested in participating? Know someone else who is? click here

Keen to support the club and help Henley host this exciting new event?
Come along to the club this Friday (22^nd Jan)

• 1pm – Join the ‘set up’ team as we help SLSSA prepare for the festival
• 3pm – Get in early and fight it out for the most fun roles. Event registrations, refreshments, award presentations, marshalling, floating flamingo inflators etc
• 3.45pm – Water cover and Patrol personnel prepare for duties & pre-event briefing takes place
• From 8pm – Don’t disappear! Pack up crew needed. All welcome

Many hands make light work! Contact Bec Codd if you can assist:

Email: vice-captain@henelyslsc.com.au SMS: 0434 072 043.

BIG ROW 2016- 10 YEARS STRONGWANT TO RECEIVE A VOUCHER?

Henley SLSC club members that recruit individual sponsors of $100 (Blue category) or donate $100 as a member, will receive a $20 meal voucher to be used on food in the Oceanview Restaurant.

You can donate now at: https://give.everydayhero.com/au/henley-big-row-2016

If you have any sponsors who wish to be further involved, please email: sponsorship@henleyslsc.com.au

The Big Row is Henley SLSC’s major annual fundraising event and provides essential funds to maintain our club and equipment, allowing us to continue to provide lifesaving services to the community each year.

The first Big Row was held in 2007, and 2016 marks the 10^th year of the event. Each year our members conduct a surf education session for the local Stansbury primary school children and other close communities on the Friday, followed on the Saturday with a 68km open water surf boat row across the gulf from Stansbury on the Yorke Peninsula to Henley Beach.

The rowers and volunteers will arrive back at Henley Beach at 2pm and every member is encouraged to get involved with this event if able.

There are many ways you can contribute including:

• Travel to Stansbury on Friday and teach the local children surf skills or provide water cover and a helping hand for the nipper session. Then stay the night, attend the club dinner at the hotel and then farewell the crew early in the morning.
• Be a part of the support crew or rowers on the 68 km trip back to Henley
• Be a part of the support crew who drive buses and cars/ trailers back to Henley
• Help with the set up on the beach on Saturday for the arrival at Henley
• Assist with the after-row function in the Oceanview room, welcoming sponsors and guests.

If you can help in any way, please contact our Club Captain Peter Oborn, peter_oborn@hotmail.com, or Big Row Organiser, Carly Lutze at henleybigrow@gmail.com

Additionally we ask every member to consider who they know, or companies that could become a sponsor of this major fundraising event. There are sponsorship and donation packages from $50 to $5,000 and every dollar raised goes towards repaying our loan and providing essential surf lifesaving training equipment.

Direct sponsor donations can also be made via the Henley SLSC website from the Big Row page. Go to: henleyslsc.com.au/the-club/the-big-row/

If every member or family was able to find a sponsor, imagine how that will secure the future of our children and the Henley SLSC so we can continue to train our children and serve the community as we have since 1925.

Junior eNews

The Henley Juniors have started 2016 with plenty of activity; an interclub day with West Beach and Grange SLSCs, a wave session at Middleton Beach and Junior Carnival 3 at Seacliff. Many thanks to those who have provided water cover for these events and of course on each Saturday afternoon. If you need a few patrol hours, we do require water cover for the following mid-week training sessions:

Mondays 5:15 – 6:15pm (Boards)
Fridays 5:15 – 6:15pm (Iron Person and Beginner Boards)

Congratulations to Under 14, Kayla Roe, who has once again represented South Australia in the State Development Team. Well done Kayla, your hard work and dedication to training is certainly paying off!

Surf Boats – ASRL Navy SeriesGreat results from the 4th and final ASRL Navy Series, held in flat conditions at South Port on Sunday 17 January.

Henley came away with wins in 4 of the 7 divisions.

• Open Men (Mackdogs) – 4 x 1st & 1 x 2nd in the 5 race round robin format and have been selected as the Open Men State Crew. Well done on being the #1 men’s crew in SA.
• Open Women (Strikers) took out the open women with 4 x 1st and 1 x 2nd, but just missing out on State selection from the 4 event series.
• Open Women (Amazons) finished 4th overall with 4 x 4th & 1 x 3rd.
• Congratulations to Simon Mitris on his first full day sweeping.
• Reserve Men’s (Dirtybirds) smashed the Reserve grade with 5 straight wins.
• U23 Women (Emuettes) 2nd overall, but a couple of wins on the day.
• U19 Men (Beach Boys) came 2nd on the day, but have cemented their place in the State Team. Well done.
• U19 Women (Vipers) won most of the 5 races putting them 1st on the day.
• U19 Women (Falcons) finishing in 3rd place on the day.

All in all, a great job today by all Henley crews, sweeps and officials!

Aussies 2016!

Hi there Henley SLSC members.

Click here for the Registration Form and Information.

The 2016 Aussies are only 3 months away and SLS Australia has commenced publishing information on their web site about the event. Please check the following link to find everything you need to know https://sls.com.au/aussies/event-info.

There is plenty of important information such as:

• The dates Saturday 16 April to Sunday 24 April
• Event timetables
• Location maps
• Early Bird nominations for competitors is now open and close on 4 February
• Normal entries close 17 March
• If you are competing or can assist with IRB cover or officials please advise our Surf Sports Manager, Sonja Smith sonjats25@hotmail.com or Aussies Team Manager, Phil Hogan phogan@aal.com.au
• When you pay the nomination fee online please email a copy of the receipt to Sonja

Please make sure you advise your Area Coordinator of the events you intend on entering before completing the attached Henley Surf Life Saving Club Entry Form.

Keep this web site in your favourites list and keep up to date with the latest information for the 2016 Aussies.

Sonja Smith & Phil Hogan

Experience of a Lifetime

by Cooper Forest

Day one – I touched down in Queensland a bit nervous for the week to come but couldn’t wait, I got off the plane and caught up with Trish and Daniel, we headed over to our apartment. As soon as I had gotten to the place I was staying I knew that this week was going to be awesome, looking out at the beach I could see perfect waves spilling over and surfers out there cutting up and down the faces of perfect waves. Training time. I was nervous before this set because I wasn’t sure how we would go against the people over there, the afternoons training started off with sprints and then went into skis, the thing I was least expecting was how short the sets were. Our ski set consisted of a warm-up paddle followed by a set of sprints and then a cool down paddle. So with our first training session done we headed back up to our apartment where we chilled out in bed for a few hours before going to bed.Day two – Next up was swimming, training under no other then Denis Cotterell the Olympic coach. This set was the longest and hardest of the week, I went for two and a half hours. We were swimming with some well-known ironmen and women such as Shannon Eckstein and Brodie Moir. With the swim set finished we headed back to the apartment to try and recoup before the afternoon set. That afternoon was the board set, continuing on with the short sets, boards was hard and fast, with lots of transition running.

Day three – Today was no less full. In the morning Ty invited us to his run swim run set, this set was also quite short and full of bodysurfing and fun. Later that morning we decided that it was high time for us to a bit of holiday shopping. Later that day we arrived back at our apartment laden down with our new purchases, next up was to waste away the time before our next set. To start off the training we had a run set full of uphill sprints, we found this killed our legs and then we had to hop into the skis and do a sprint set, sprints through the surf out to a can.

Day four – No training this morning, Ty gave us the day off to regroup and have a bit of a sleep in. we got up and went for a drive to do some shopping and go for a surf. We ended up surfing down at Danger Point in NSW. That afternoon was a bit of a fun set, training against some of the ironmen including Tannon Lyndon and Ben Carberry, the set consisted of bodysurfing for a warm up and the bodysurfing continued into the boards set.

Day five – This morning consisted of a 9km run from Burleigh to North Burleigh and then up and around the hill at Burleigh, the we went for a bodysurf and had body champs, which is a competition on who catches the wave the longest. Todays was the day that we moved from the Burleigh Heads apartment to a new place just around the corner and closer to the beach. That afternoon came another ski set which was again short, sharp and hard.

Day five – There was no training on today so we went for a surf out in front of our apartment, the waves were so good, they were around four foot and barrelling sometimes, we did this in the morning and in the afternoon, just as a chill out sort of day.

Day six – Our last day. Ty invited us out again for another early morning swim from Burleigh to North Burleigh, and then just body champs and catching waves. Today was the best day for surfing it was five foot, clean and nearly every wave was barrelling.
Now back in Adelaide it is time to continue training and hopefully we can work in some of the sets from up in Queensland into the trainings back here.

On the Same Wave Program

‘Come and Try’ session on Sunday 24 January 2016

The On the Same Wave program has been actively promoted by SLSSA since December 2007 in order to engage with and recruit people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds into Surf Life Saving.

Traditionally, migrants, refugees and people from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse backgrounds have been overrepresented in both national and state drowning figures and have been identified by aquatic safety authorities as a ‘high risk’ group.

Encouraging greater ethnic participation in Surf Life Saving has been identified as a key strategy to invite newly arrived Australians into Surf Life Saving.

On Sunday 6^th of December the Henley On The Same Wave Program held an Information Session and a Come and Try. One young person is now actively engaged in training for his Bronze Medallion. Two others have shown interest.

We are holding another Information Session and Come and Try on Sunday 24^th of January. Spread the word.

Please extend a welcome to all new faces around the club.

Shannon and Dale and Matthew.

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