Sennen Surf Club

your local community surf club, founded in 1965

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Drowning Prevention Week

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Drowning Prevention WeekAs this weeks groms coincided with Drowning Prevention Week and flat conditions at Sennen we ran a lifesaving based session.

The session started off with a briefing by Stef (head lifeguard on Sennen) where he talked to them about lifeguarding and showed them the various items of kit that the lifeguards use on a daily basis. The groms then involved themselves in completing board rescues, board races, torpedo tube rescues, swimming races and learnt other basic beach lifesaving techniques.

The session was a big success and all groms seemed to enjoy what they were learning, we will likely repeat a session like this when conditions are not favourable for surfing!

 

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Groms club 2014

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We’re looking forward to the start of groms club again this year.

New season of groms club starts 1st June

We’ll be returning to the beach again on Sunday 1st June 2014 for our first groms club session. Sessions will be held at the same time as last year (9.30-11.30).

In the 2 weeks before we are running coaching training sessions for our volunteers – 18th & 25th May

If you’d be interested in volunteering with us please do come along to these sessions and join in!  It will be a mixture of beach and clubhouse training so we are well prepared to guide the groms in their learning.

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our coaches & assistant coaches 2013

Rookie Lifeguard Awards

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Congratulations to all our Rookie Lifeguards – everyone did really well this winter and all the rookies achieved their awards, with many of them even going on to achieve a second award!

Big thanks to Julia & James who volunteered their time to help the rookies achieve their awards.

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During their awards they have practiced the following lifesaving skills:

  • Clothed swim (with a timed element for some awards!)
  • Casualty rescues (both unaided and using various methods: rope throw, torpedo tube rescues, board rescues)
  • Treading water
  • Help Signals
  • Life support
  • Underwater object recovery
  • Various swim techniques

Congratulations to you all on all your awards!

Bronze 1 – Jensen, Patrick

Bronze 2 – Sennen, Dolly, Minnie, Mia

Bronze 3 & Silver 1 – Leo

Silver 1 & 2 – Finley

Silver 3 & Gold 1 – Benjy, Joey, Jos, Jay, Sam, Aiden

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Winter Lifesaving Programme

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The Rookies lifesaving programme is a great way for the groms to learn essential skills to keep themselves (and others) safe in the water.  We are lucky to have Julia who is an excellent coach, to teach the rookies again this year. We’ll be running the bronze, silver and gold awards.

The sessions will be on Saturday evenings from 7-8pm in the Penzance Leisure Centre pool. Dates for your diary:

18 Jan
25 Jan
15 Feb
22 Feb
15 March
29 March
5 April
12 April
19 April
26 April

This is 10 pool sessions in total, there are a few weeks the pool is not available due to swimming galas, hence the gaps in the above list.

Beach Lifeguard Pool Training (& Assistant Beach Lifeguard)

The above programmes will be running at the same time as the rookies lifesaving.  Qualified lifeguards are essential to keep the club going, The full lifeguard award is open to those age 16+ and the assistant beach lifeguard to those 14+

The initial pool training is 10 weeks, which will be followed up by some additional sessions on the beach / in the clubhouse.

Additional details to follow on these awards.

End of Season BBQ

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Thankyou to everyone for another great year for the groms club.  All the groms have improved their surfing this year and had plenty of lifesaving practice thanks to the spate of flat days!

We had a great last session and being British continued on and had our end of season BBQ despite the mizzly foggy – we just relocated up to by the clubhouse incase we had to suddenly take cover – the groms kept themselves entertained whilst waiting for food with games of pool and surf DVDs instead of the usual beach games.

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Big thanks to our coaches, assistant coaches and all our parent volunteers – without you we couldn’t run the club!

 

Winter programme

The winter rookies lifesaving programme and lifeguard training will commence in January as usual, dates of these sessions to follow.

The seniors surf nights on Wednesdays will continue until we lose the light in the evenings, and we’ll continue to surf on Sunday mornings and our older groms are welcome to join us (must be accompanied by parents as these are social surf sessions so we won’t necessarily have a lifeguard or full coach) so hopefully we’ll see you again soon.