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Super Mario, aka Ryszard Jakowski is off to his homeland, Poland, for the European summer. All the best mate, and make sure you come home fit and ready to race for the Vikings.
Friday, May 30, 2008
Have a good holiday Ric!
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Endurance Plate 08
Dear All,
Please distribute the following anouncement to members.
The 2008/09 Racing Season begins with the Endurance Plate 2008. The Endurance Plate is an important event, being one of two events which are used to select the team that will represent the State at the Duke Trophy event in July.
This year the Endurance Plate will be hosted by the Sydney Vikings Speed Skating Club at Sydney Ice Arena.
On the 14th of June, warm up will commence at 5:45pm. Races will be held between 6pm and 7:45pm, after which a presentation will take place in the cafe above the ice arena.
For details and entry form please visit www.iceracingnsw.org.au
Kind Regards,
Ben
Ben Southee
SYDNEY SKATE SHOP
11 Solent Circuit
Baulkham Hills NSW 2153
AUSTRALIA
Phone: +61 2 9659 5557
Fax: 9659.8608
www.sydneyskateshop.com.au
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Vikings Short Track Demo #2
This is the second race of the short track demo. This is a 1500m handicap. I am racing on scratch against a relay team composed of 4 central coast skaters. Luke Cullen, Micah Rae, Sebastian Szukalski and Jesse Buosi are the Vikings team that start half a lap ahead of me and so have 13 laps to skate.
Vikings Short Track Demo #1
The following video is footage from the 1st race of a short track demonstration event held during a Central Coast Rhinos AIHL game at Erina Ice Arena.
This is a Womens 500m handicap. Krysia Child is on scratch, and joining her in the race are central coast short trackers Lauren Winch, Grace Felch, Sharneada Crompton, Sarah Cullen and Erin Winch. All the girls are starting one full lap ahead of Krysia, so they have 3.5 laps to complete. Krysia's objective was to catch as many as she could before she completed 500m.
Congratulations to Sharneada Crompton who eventually crossed the line first.
The video is excerpts of footage taken by Brett Wallace
Brett Wallace Cinematography
Central Coast NSW
bwallace@exemail.com.au
Monday, May 19, 2008
Warburton on Cheating in Sport
The philosopher Nigel Warburton has kindly sent me a link to the transcript of a piece he did for Radio 4 (UK) entitled 'Cheating In Sport'. Click on the title if you are interested in reading this.
For those of you interested in contemporary philosophical issues and discussions on the age old philosophical topics with contemporary thinkers, I highly recommend Nigel Warburton's site Virtual Philosopher and Philosophy Bites, a podcast site he shares with fellow philosopher David Edmonds.
Friday, May 16, 2008
The Ethics of Genetic Enhancement in Sport
As science progresses so does our power to change the world around us. Medical and biotechnological advances have not only increased our life expectancy, but also our aggregate quality of life. Our ability to modify our genetic make-up no doubt will contribute to our increasing quality of life, perhaps as much as the discovery of penicillin increased life expectancy. But this technology will have implications in the sporting arena also.
The following is a brief excerpt of an interview with Professor Michael J. Sandel, the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University. The interview is published on Ethics Bites in association with Open University.
Sport and Genetic Enhancement
"As far as sports are concerned we hear a lot about blood doping and the use of steroids for performance enhancement in athletes and in the not distant future it will be possible to use various forms of gene therapy, for example, to enhance muscle and that I think is what in the area of sport will raise the most difficult questions."
Read the full transcript of the interview here
Download the MP3 file of the interview from here
This information was sourced from Nigel Warburton and David Edmonds' blogsite Philosophy Bites.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Monday, May 12, 2008
The Junior Short Track Open Club’s Challenge 2008
25th & 26th of April 2008
Alpine Ice Sports Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand
This inaugural challenge attracted young skater from 5 clubs:
| New Zealand: Canterbury Alpine Ice Skating Club
Dunedin Ice Skating Club
Mainland Ice Racing Club
| Australia: Sydney Arrows Ice Racing Club:
Erina Vikings Club:
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The event went very smoothly courtesy of the organisers Maggie Holland, Mark Atkinson and Fiona Atkinson and was conducted in a very friendly atmosphere. The opponents on the track became friends off the tracks, which was good to see.
For many young speed skaters this was their first exposure to racing. It was good to see them giving their best in every single race.
There were few falls and some tears but overall the smiles prevailed. I think the event has left the young competitors with a hunger for success and I hope this Junior Challenge will continue for the years to come and allow the young talent to test each other and themselves.
Protocol from the event
Friday, May 9, 2008
NY Times Article about training SPECIFICITY
I was discussing the 3 pillars of scientific training with one of my young athletes (Sebastian Szukalski) during the week. He is a sharp young kid with a keen interest in science. I was explaining how Progressive Overload, Recovery, and Specificity are the key to performance.
I have since found a NY Times article that highlights the amazing importance of specificity, and how cross-training can actually be very detrimental to performance. Science is showing how important training specificity is and coaches and athletes are spending less time on "complementary activities" (probably a misnomer), choosing to concentrate on the activity being trained for itself.
For Peak Performance, 3 Is Not Better Than 1
NY Times - 8/5/08 Gina Kolata
WHEN Jenny Higgins started doing triathlons, she discovered something peculiar. She had been on her high school cross country and swim teams and her college swim team. But in 2003 she started running, swimming and cycling, and tried to excel in all three at once.
“I noticed that in the pool, my legs felt very heavy,” she said. “I was dragging my legs more than I used to and it hurt my swimming.” Read the full article here
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Video of Erina
The video is excerpts of footage taken by Brett Wallace
Brett Wallace Cinematography
Central Coast NSW
bwallace@exemail.com.au
Have you got the edge?
So you think you have good edge control?
I was surfing the net and came across this interesting site that shows some very nice skills in a funky little video.
International Twin Track Association
Happy watching!
Frank
www.worldmastersshorttrack.com
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