We have about 700 Juniors (13-18yrs) playing
in NZ Secondary Schools and about 300 Mini UWH players (9-12
year olds)
playing in Wellington. Mini Tournaments are local events
for
Under
13's. For secondary schools we have 3 zone tournaments
for the
70-80
teams that participate in the following areas- Northern (incl
Mid
Northern),
Central and South Island held 14-16 June. The top 3 or 4
teams in
each of the 4 grades obtain entry to the secondary school
nationals in
August each year. The grades are Junior U15 Open, U15
Girls and
Senior
U18 Open, U18 Girls. Secondary School Nationals is 22-25
August
2002.
40 teams attend this event each year and occasionally a
visiting
team.
In 1999 the Ornkey Vikings from near you guys came down and
played.
Underwater hockey is a sport played on the bottom of a pool using
mask,
snorkel, and fins. SCUBA is not used. A plastic covered lead puck is
pushed
or flicked along the pool bottom with a short stick (about 10 inches
long)
that is held with one hand only. There are six players per team in
the
water at one time and up to four substitutes, available to jump in
at
any
time, are allowed.
The playing area is roughly 25m long by 15m wide and optimally
2.5m
deep. There is a goal at each end of the playing area, which is a
metal
trough about 10 feet across and just deep enough so that the puck
doesn't
come out once put in.
The object of the game is to put the puck in the opposition's
goal.
To do this a team must work together, for one person can not
feasibly
score
a goal alone. There are a variety of strategies and formats a team
plays
to be most effective.
There are over 500 known Underwater Hockey players in the world (1999
UWH census)
According to Martin Reed, britishoctopush
list
administrator:
UK players and UK-interested parties about
the
UK Octopushnews group, the UK equivalent of Hockeynet.The
newsgroup
currently
has 65 members, but obviously the greater thecoverage it has
the more
effective
it will be.
However, note that this second method
will
only
subscribe you to the mailing list and will not automatically
give you
access
to the online calendar, file library and the various other
goodies.
Relevant to people inside of the province.
It
is intended for use with Hockey or Rugby related information.
To subscribe, just send an email with
nothing
in it to: uws-ont-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
This group helps traveling teams and event
hosts
of sporting events to get hotels and some other things. They are
awfully
nice and I think they are free. Check it out! www.sport-travel.com
Corinne Almas
CSTT-Sport Team Travel.
1-866-861-TEAM (8326)
Tournament Manual, click on link in
upper right
hand corner
Timing Software
If
you want to try it out, change your computer date to earlier
than 1998,
then unzip the file. Also it is not Y2k
compliant, but its a simple request that the owner says he can
do.
When going for the goal bend your
elbow
so you will
be able to manouver the puck. If you have a straight arm
it is very
easy
to knock the puck off of your stick.
Vary the speed of your arm
movement
when
moving the
puck. It will be harder for the defender to accuractly
predict where
and
when the puck will be.
Slow down in crowded areas,
Know where the other team is.
Don't
just
concentrate
on where you should be.
PowerLung, by Brockline Enterprises
WWW.brockline.com,
Mgf. Rep: rick wahrenbrock <rwahrenb@ AT
@gte.net>
PowerLung is a hand held device for
building
up your lungs by resistance training. It is like weight
training for
your
lungs! You can change the resistance to both the inhale and
separately
to the exhale as you use it. The PowerLung is used by the US
Freediving
Team in their training and is endorsed by Spearfishing
Champion Bill
Ernst.
martin.fish@ AT @virgin.net from
Hockeynet
says:
I've not actually used this but I know
that
for
an extortionate price you can buy them from your local
Boots, about
£30.
I originally saw them on Tomorrows World and they had been
developed as
a lung trainer for asthma sufferers and had proven to be
highly
effective
at improving lung capacity. Apparently you only have to use
it for
something
like 5 minutes a day to see the results. The article in
Tomorrows World
they talked a bit about the benifits it could offer athletes
but I
haven't
heard much more. I'd be very keen to hear if anyone has used
it for
sports as it may offer a some useful
assistance
for those struggling with bottom time.
The ProEar 2000 is a high quality, low
volume
mask which protects your ears against infections, trauma,
cold,
pollution
and is easier to equalize and allows for directionality of
sound. It
also
was designed especially for optical lenses. We can offer
special club
rates
well below normal retail prices
Design Costs. Liz from Hockeynet
says" Several of us recently spoke with the UK MD of Oceanic
who
outlined that to develop a new fin would cost upward of £1.5
million in development costs alone - thats a lot of fins!!!
"
High level games of Underwater Hockey
are
games
of "maneuverability", quick changes of direction at almost
non-stop
pace.
With this, you need "quick response time fins". You
should be
able
to propel yourself the 'MOMENT' you think it. Longer and
heavier fins
tend
to run counter to this objective. It is probable that in a
100 meter
dash
the longer fin will win, but the game of hockey is
characterized with
rapid
bursts
of kick-offs at about 3-7 meters at a time. The breakaways
to the goal
with an open field in front of you come once in a while. 95%
of the
time
its a swim of short distances in different directions.
Therefore, use
fins
that is most effective 95% of the time.: not too long and
not too short
either.
The shape of things to come, split your fin down the middle.
This design
reduces drag more than anything thereby giving you more
forward
movement
for the same leg work.
Full footed version won't be available until ??? (I
received no e-mail
response yet)
Other fins preferred by UWH players
Mares, preferred by forwards
Plana Avanta L with Twaron (discontinued ~1997)
Plana Avanta L (discontinued ~1999)
Greg McGrath bought the last
ones
from Mares <capeuw@ AT @aol.com>
(508) 888-3444.Cost is $89.00 (U.S.) plus
shipping from Cape Cod,
MA. 27 pairs available as of December 2001.
Plana Avanta HP (discontinued
~2001)
Avanti Quattros (discontinued
~2004)
quattros are better for big
legs... i can get the same speed out of them as
bigger guys but i
only last a length at top speed before my legs give
out for the next
half-hour... so i use smaller fins which don't
blow out my wussy
legs.
Sporasub
Cruise (discontinued
~2001)
the cruises are identical to the
quattros in design yes, BUT they are made from a
different material
which loses it's stiffness noticeably faster than the
quattros.
I have just acquired a number of
pairs of fins
they are Sporasub Cruise which are the same fins as
Mares Plana Avanti
Quattro Power. These fins are a descendant of the
Mares Ls which most
of
us use. The only difference is 2 extra grooves of
rubber. There is only
one color available and it€™s a black/green camo,
sizes are 6
½
-7 ½ (40-41), 8-9 (42-43), 9 ½ -10
½
(44-45). Please check or try someone in your clubs
fins to order the
correct
size as this is a one time, no returnable deal. The
COST is $73.00 a
pair
you can combine as many orders in your club as
possible to save on
shipping
costs. it cost $9.00 to ship 1 pair or $30.00 to ship
6 pairs. They are
here and ready for shipment first paid first
ship
<charliesplash@ AT @msn.com>
Technisub, Ala fins, preferred by
backs.
Ala Fin inserts, Contact
avent@
AT @AT@sfsu.edu
Availiblity of the Ala fin
Nov. 2003 TrueBlue
still placing
orders for them, AUD$150.00
(aussie add
10% GST) +P&P
November 2002, From Hockeynet "I talked with Technisub president. I told me they are not going to produce more Ala fins, because of dioxine emissions. So, if you can buy Ala fins in UK or in Slovenia or in Germany in the past years, in the next years it will be IMPOSSIBLE. I don't know if we could buy the mould, but I know that making them is impossible because of Italian law about dioxine emissions.
Doing those 250 telephone calls I discovered that you can find a lot of rubber made fins, like Rondine pro, or Rubber by Mares. You can buy them for 30 or 40 euros, ..."
2001 Info from
Hockeynet, by Leone Tarozzi. Then informations
on Ala fins from Italy:
Following a request from a Canadian
friend and
good player I phoned to Technisub to have direct
informations on Ala
fins
for 2001. I had been told few months ago they were not
going to build
them
any more in 2001.
This time the answer is:
Ala fins are on Technisub
catalogue
still
They are not making them for
Italy
because of insufficient
request from our country (and they can't deal with
privates )
They will be making some for
foreign countries only
if the request is over 1-2 thousands, any fewer
number being not
commercially
convenient
To order them use the email:
technisub@ AT @technisub.com,
but remember point 3.
So, if some national groups gather,
maybe it could
still be possible to have them. No idea on prices, since
it depends on
countries, numbers made and other. Better ask them
directly.
Splash Sports, Edinburgh,UK,
kevin@
AT @splashsports.co.uk
. They ship fins. Current price is about L55 ($l20
Can.) plus shipping
TrueBlue, still placing
orders for them
Nov. 2003, AUD$150.00 (aussie add
10% GST) +P&P. They can be paid for
by Credit Card.
Zao Enterprises, ZaoEnterprises@
AT
@bigpond.com.au
The
cost is now $120 but may rize due to supplyers
increase.
Dive ski, ? [a reference by
Zao
Enterprises].
Their cost is around $146.
Aqualung, ? [I'm trying
to
find
the distributor].
They are about 90$ US.
Ocean Sports, Edmonton,
Alberta,
Canada. 4-19-01:
The Ala fins have been received. they are black
rubber and are on
sale this week only for $150 Canadian plus GST plus
shipping. all
sizes but 5-6 are available as I
write
this..
grant@ AT @oceansports.ca
August 2002, I have some
pair. They are
the latest, and it's difficult finding and obtaining
them. I have all
size
from 36-38 to 44-46. MICHELE BATTAGLIOLI
<abattaglioli @
AT @
tin.it>
Reef Tourers "...are pretty good. Ive been wearing them
for
three years now - at both club hockey at at worlds."
Cruise "They are the same as Mares
Quatro
Pros" (discontinued ~2001)
Fins to avoid
Cressi Frog
Fixing fins
From Hockeynet: I think Alas cannot be plastic welded as they are a rubber or thermoplastic rubber. Cressi Sub Rondine Pro fins are a plastic blade fin so can be plastic welded.
Let's face it, new fins are expensive. If you want to try something different, think about plastic welding the cracks in your old ones. I've admittedly only tried it on one brand, the Rondine Cressi-subs, but it has worked well for this brand, provided that the plastic repair guy uses shavings from the actual fin to do the welding...If the repairer uses the wroing stuff, that does not match the fin rubber exactly in elastic properties, this can lead to the weld breaking quickly. I got another year out of my fins (no longer available in retail) by welding, and now a REWELD of the same site again seems to have taken too. Cost of welding a fin in Australia is usually $20-30 A. The reparier can usually give a you a good idea if your particular fin is made of rubber that the repairer can do something with, before you pay money to have the job done.
From Hockeynet: You did not say where in the foot pocket the material is breaking or what kind of fins. If the tearing is at the toe of the foot pocket, small holes can be drilled on each side of the foot pocket in the meaty part of the fin and a nylon cord wrapped around the toe area for support so that it will not tear farther. Keep the cord snug, but not too tight or it will hurt your toes. The knot can be on the bottom and super glue can keep it from undoing. Tears any other place are very hard to fix, but if the fin is rubber it can be patched with a hot vulcanizing tire repair patch. It has been my experience that if the fin blade is tearing by the foot pocket, it is time to consider another pair of fins.
Fin Keepers,
South African, Specify
size....
Medium or Large
in the USA $8.00 US per
Pair +
Shipping: in the Continental
USA will be $3.20 for up to 12 pairs....Mail to:
Charlie
Matthews, 287 Oak St.,
Randolph, MA 02368 Tele: 781-248-4770, CapeCodUWH@
AT
@aol.com in Aulstralia $10.50 a
pair(R38ea(R4.91
= $1) + approx 10% for freight + 23% for import
duties,handling and
GST)
Let me know if you want them. > Les & Jan Buchanan
<trublue@
AT @austarmetro.com.au
Dave Kennedy, USA. I started selling gloves at the Texas Open..and sold out pretty quick. There was some more interest in gloves after they were gone..If anyone wants one, send me an email. 15 a glove, 25 for a black/white pair. dmkenndy@ AT @uiuc.edu
I can vouch for aluminium goals
also. Heavy
enough to stay on the bottom (don't need lead weights like
fibreglass
goals),
don't dent like stainless goals and are light weight to
carry from
storage
to pool.
Aluminium goals, we use them at 18
gauge
thick and
argon arc welded. They last at least 15 years
In the UK and cost 200
pounds
about
300 dollars.
KDunkinson@ AT @compuserve.com
The Charleston Club had aluminum
goals
manufactured
for us by a vocational/trades class at a local public high
school, for
essentially the cost of the aluminum. The welds (or are
they brazes?)
are
kinda sloppy looking, but they have held up very well, and
the goals,
although
by definiiton big & unwieldy, are light (can be picked
up easily by
one person) and we are thoroughly please with them. I
think, but can
verify,
that the aluminum is 1/8" thick.
Fiberglass.
I have not seen a set of metal
goals
yet
that has
not got dented and unsafe to one degree or another.
Umm, we have fibreglass goals in
Welly,
and they
stay on the bottom fine
without lead weights as far as I
know.
cost $600 (new Zealand dollars)
Per
set. <dolmanr@ AT @nzol.net.nz>
Stainless
We also have some stainless steel
goals
made
for worlds 1992, which don't dent either...The stainless
goals are in
two
sections which slot together so they're easier to carry
around.
In
the UK We can make you a pair of stainless steal (16
gauge) gullies for
£375.
Postage is up to you. You can ring around the usual places
to get the
best
price. 5 years ago we paid £40 for a pair to be sent from
Leeds.
The
person who will make them owns a metal work shop company
and has made
all
our gullies for us. To date he has made 3 pairs. If you
have any more
question
don't hesitate to ask. Charlie Simms, Ipswich Octopush
Club, 01473
212563, 07703 547503
Insurance
USOA
provided runs 2001 1 Aug thru 2002 31 July.Aggregate benefit
is $2
million.
Yearly cost will be $500 and some number of dues paying
members.
Platina (M-20) mask ".. it has a very thin frame and is super low volume. ...comes in all black and clear silicone, the silicone is just too clear!-- glare inside the mask...the mask is very sturdily made - a few of the Philippine players use this mask. retails for around US$47
Platina Hyperdry(M-21) "is a piece of crap... the purge didn't work well... the purge made the mask so much higher in volume because the lenses are far away from your eyes and vision is restricted.
Ventosa is not quite as low
volume
(95
cc).
It lenses are significantly larger than the Target, but
from the
picture
it looks like it might sit further off ones face. http://www.htmsport.com/en/maschere/ventosa_en.html
Sealmask
a
low volume mask that maybe modifiable ( vinyl on the
inside and
outside)
to make it shatterproof.
Technisub
Sphera mask, " Extremely good
vision
and light weight.
The most that appears to happen with a
direct hit from the puck is that the lens
pops out of the frame (difficult to get back in). The
danger with these
masks is the shape and the way they sit just inside or
just above the
eye
socket. There is a tremendous increase in black
eyes and cuts
just
below the eye in the eye socket due to these
masks. A
relatively small knock by another
players
fin/elbow
etc will knock the mask into the face and do dome
damage. Not
life
threatening, but painful for a week or so."
Picture : http://www.divetechsupply.com/papelnet_masks.htm
Vendors: ~$40 USD
RenoSys PVC Pool
Shells, From hockeynet:
I'm pretty sure this is the same kind of lining material
we have
here in Denver. We've been playing on it for several
years and
anyone
who's been to either of the first two Battles at Altitude
knows what
the surface is like.
My assessment is that the vinyl is a slower surface than
what
you're used to in Gainesville (although it won't abrade
and irritate
your skin nearly as much as the fiberglass). You can
use most
pucks on
it (we've used the Aussie pink, the Aussie
orange, the
super-soft
Aussie orange, the Canadian Oreo, and the Steve Kars'
Universal Puck,
all with reasonable success. All the things people
have been
saying
about pucks not sliding very well, stopping 'dead' when
they hit on
their edges, etc. are true, and the vinyl is definitely
inferior to
just about any tile bottom, but it is still far, far
better than
concrete. Be sure you request the smooth surface, rather
than textured
- we
have smooth in our playing area in Denver, but the shallow
end of our
pool is done with textured, and it doesn't play very well
at all.
Pool Bottoms, Marking
Crayons
Black grease pencils.
Depends
on
what kind
of markings you want, if its just for puck/goal placement,
that
would be ideal. You have to
hold your breath,
and have patience, it doesnt write very fast, but will stay
there for a
month or so.
The 2001 Champaign Underwater Hockey
Calendar,
$19US, Order 5 or more calendars, and shipping is free, 10 @
$17.50
each!!
Plus, a special bonus for orders over $100...
Note: all this clothing runs a little
large.
If you are interested, please send an email soon telling me of
what I
should
reserve for you, then send a check made out to USoA to me at:
Brigit
Grimm,
1031 Doeg Rd., Boulder Creek, CA 95006. As soon as I receive
the check,
the merchandise will go in the mail. Don't forget to
give me your
address. Shipping to US addresses only. For those
interested, but
don't need the items shipped, email me and we can work out a
deal!!!
Gray long-sleeved polo shirts with
Team
USA 2000
embroidered on the left chest ---sizes L, XL, XXL
for only $16
including
shipping!!
Gray short-sleeved polo shirts
with
Team
USA 2000
embroidered on the left chest ---sizes S, L, XL, XXL
for only $12
including shipping!!
Gray youth T-shirts with Team USA
2000
embroidered
on the left chest ---sizes L, XL for only $7
including shipping!!
Navy warmup pants (nylon exterior,
gray
flannel interior)
with white stripe, no logo --size XL for only $16
including shipping!!
1998 Team USA denim pullovers
left:
--size M for
only $18 including shipping!!
Virginia Tech Hockey T-shirt
Sizes: You can get Small all the way thru
XXXL.
Also you can get longsleeves or
short.
The cost for a short sleeve T is
$15
and a long sleeve T $20.
Design: The front left breast will have
the VT
logo and underneath "H20 Hockey". The back will have a huge
water
hockey
HOKIE bird. Above the image it will say "Virginia Tech" in
large
letters
and below the image "H20 Hockey". Check
out the image now at the club website
<http://filebox.vt.edu/org/uwhockey/Index.html>
Order Now: If you don't care about long
sleeve
or the special super size shirts we still need your order so
we get
enough.
Write checks to: Underwater Hockey at
Virginia
Tech Mail them
to:Daniel
Graves, 501 D
Sunridge Drive, Blacksburg, VA 24060
"These are great for dry-land practice,
they
have about the same resistance as a puck, and will help with
puck
handling
skills".
Bert Dolan (303) 618-0212, Denver USA,
bertdolan@ AT @hotmail.com
Light weight junior
pucks (800gm) Suitable for U14's. [mailto:guiceayres
@ bigfoot dot com ] They are
£15 each, postage was £3.32 for 1 puck at
last count.
Italy, we have green pucks, soft one, very fast on fast bottom, but first of all we have made a production process that allow us to obtain them...cheap!!! abattaglioli@ at @tin.it
REWORKING THEM from
Hockeynet : Try the following: With worn
Australian pucks,
drill 7 - 8mm diameter holes, 4 on each
side. Force a
woodscrew in to make threads in the lead and fill them
with hot glue or
silicone. Over fill the holes about 1 - 2mm so
the glue or
silicone makes contact with the pool bottom. The
threads lock the
glue or silicone in place. Hot glue is easy to
work with.This
will renew the pucks ability to fly high
and on rough bottom pools the puck will slide more
easily.
How effective this is depends on the pool
bottom. As the new
material wears and breaks, more must be
added.
Comments on these pucks from
HockeyNet:
On these large glass tiles, the orange (with soft coating)
plays very
differently from the pink puck.
The orange puck exhibits:
long shots without trouble because the pucks coating
is
"sticky"
very high shots - 12" to 24" above bottom on a regular
basis
easy control on stick due to "stickiness"
occasionally creates a suction against the smooth
bottom
and stops
dead;
moves well otherwise (very slow on a 1" tile bottom)
The pink pucks exhibit
long shots possible but a higher percentage "shank"
and
fall short
because
stick/puck grip is lessened
lower shots - 6" to 16" high is a regular height
very easy to move around on bottom due to weight and
no
puck/bottom
friction
- fast game
can chip off edges of tiles
In general, the orange pucks favor an open game by allowing
longer
(on average) shots, better control and the option (if you
have good aim
and KNOW you won't hit someone) of shooting over a shoulder
rather than
just a wrist. The orange puck has a very serious handicap
however. The
higher shots mean that the puck is suspended in water longer
and is is
consequently much easier to knock down. Hence, passes are
easier to
intercept
than the faster moving, lower pink puck. Having played a lot
of games
with
both, I assure people that the orange puck gets intercepted
on passes a
great deal more than the pink puck. It is to the extent that
a wise
player
almost never tries to pass the orange world puck past an
opponent
unless
their stick is within 6 inches of yours.
OREO
, the Worlds 2002 puck, 74451.2016@AT@compuserve.com
Worlds
2004
Puck The puck is now for sale to all countries, The cost
is $60 NZ
plus
P/P, a quote will be given for all orders before shipping,
orders will
be
only be excepted by email or faxing your request for pucks
to :-
Tournament
Sectary Ray Hall ray.hall@@clear.net.nz or fax 0064
3 3603374
Payment
will be money order bank transfer, no personal cheques. A review of the Puck
Prototype form as of May
2002
charles@ AT @keason.demon.co.uk
PVC plastic?
Lou Bush in Charleston SC, USA
does
that
for their
rough bottom pool. It works great! Wears well too they
say. He doesn't
do it commercially.
"Dave Parore" pucks FROM
HOCKEYNET:
"...will be used
at Trans Tasmans next year (2000) in NZ. A lot of people
find the
plastic
coated pucks too light for the fast bottoms in some of the
NZ pools
(esp.
the orange ones), so there has been a bit of a shift back
to the old
ones.
Also the fact that "unskilled" players can get a good
flick away with a
sabre and an orange puck has annoyed some "skilled"
players who spent
years
perfecting their flicks with planks of wood. I'm not sure
if these are
the pure lead pucks you were refereeing to, but just in
case, they are
still alive and flicking.
Send them
to
The Guild care of murray.brooks@at @johnbrooks.co.nz
Murray
will then post it to the referee’s guild for discussion, Murray or
his
nominee will then do a summary and forward it to the senior
referee’s
panel within the guild. From there a definitive
interpretation
will
come back to him which will be posted to the guild list and be
sent out
on other mailing lists and also returned to the person who asked
the
question.
Mares
make a great snorkel without any valves or anything on it.
The mouth
piece is soft rubber and has really big bite tabs. There
expensive and
almost impossible to find in a dive shop. I have a guy who
carries
Mares products special order one for me and it costs around
$20. Just
look in a Mares catalog, its the only one without valves on
it (I
think).
Mouthpieces,
cost about £1.50 each, in batches of 1000. Is anybody else interested in obtaining some? Gareth, guiceayres @@ postmaster.co.uk May-2003
Just pull the plastic part off the top and it shortens it to a good length. It says it's a "New" model but variants of it have been around for a long time. If you don't want the purge, get the model down.
Sticks
TIP from Hockeynet:
Wrap electrical tape on your stick. Although
it is not recognized as legal at the tournament level, The
tape
protects
the wood & will last for many games, depending on the
bottom of the
pool. The stick inside the does not wear down at all. A roll
of tape
costs
$1 or less & it takes all of a minute to wrap up a stick.
How much
more simple can you get? Some have argued that the draw back
is that
you
get used to a certain feel then lose that feel
when the
tape
comes off at a tournament. Perhaps, but the added bonus is
that the
playing
areas are left with an adhesive coating that grips the
puck quite
nicely.
Steve Kars stevenkars@ AT @hotmail.com
"... 2
designs I currently produce, but I can make any design
and I am
willing
to ship if you cannot make the tournament. I will also
be making
tape gloves for 10 bucks, and sticks are 15 cdn or 10 US per
pair.
Syllabus,
training
seminar
from South African Underwater Hockey. This seminar runs
parallel
to a training
video.
An
NTSC version is available from the USOA,
Contact
Nina
& Ters <ninaters@ AT @ukonline.co.uk>,
Video Equipment
Video
Camera, build your own for recording or watching games.
By John
Stoke
Ters & Nerine are currently producing a training
video for uwh. This is a professional production, not
a home
video,
with running commentary to the different skills throughout
the video.
PURPOSE: To help promote hockey throughout the
world, To develop skills and techniques, A tool for coaches
.
WHY:Nothing of its kind is available in a professional
format. We are both involved in coaching in South
Africa and felt
that there is a huge need for a training video.
WHAT SKILLS DO WE COVER: Swimming with the puck,
Turning, Flicking, Stealing the puck, Other advance
techniques
FORMAT: It is a 25 minute production available
in VHS format, with both PAL (European) and NTSC
(US&Canada)
colour systems. Commentary is in English.
A booklet
with
a description of everything as well as some graphics will
complete the
package.
COST: US$30
TO ORDER: NERINE AND TERS, SOUTH AFRICA UNDERWATER
HOCKEY,
in Europe: Contact Nina & Ters <ninaters@ AT
@ukonline.co.uk>,
in the USA; CROSEUSOA@ AT @aol.com,
cost is $30 including shipping.
"18 Minutes to Better UWH & 1999 USA Nationals", $15
plus postage uwh@ AT @wirelesscp.com
The beginning is the film is repetitive playing of deck and
water
drills.
The 2nd section shows how to practice to get a 7 foot pass.
The rest of
the tape (1:40) is edited games from the A Division 1999 USA
Nationals.
All the dead time between points and penalties have been
removed so you
get to see pure playing. The quality of the game is
excellent. You get
to see how really good players control the puck, pass and
play
positions.
Total time is 2 hours, VHS with NTSC encoding.
World Championships
2002 Alisdair Galbraith <uwh_al@ AT @hotmail.com
1998 video tapes All Highlight's tapes
NTSC
and
PAL format's
are just $15. For more info, see http://www.patpix.com/
or email Pat at patpix@ AT @patpix.com.
Rules interpretation for Referees, Coming Soon as posted
on
Hockeynet
6-12-00:
Refs in Canada, New Zealand, and Australia have volunteered
to make a
video,
Canada has funding.........
October, 2002 Issue of Aquatics magazine,
www.aquaticsintl.com
Sports Illustrated Women, July/August 2002 page 49.
Check out this Swimsuit Issue,
Cincinnati Enquirer, Fri, 31 May 2002 , had an article
about the sport of underwater hockey in general and the Roger
Bacon
High
School students competing at Worlds as part of the US Junior
National
Team
in particular. http://cincinnati.com/preps/2002/05/31/pre_students_dive_into.html
FREEDIVE! by Terry Maas and David Sipperly, EXCERPT
on UWH
Conferences
International Aquatic Fitness Conference
The largest conference in the Aquatic Fitness industry. Meet
hundreds
of pool managers
May 16 - 21, 2000 San Diego, California
Donna Blackmon, Special events coordinator and Press
information
Phone (941) 486-8600 or (888)
AEA-WAVE,
Fax: (941) 486-8820, e-mail: aea@ AT
@ix.netcom.com
The 31st Our World Underwater Film Festival, Expo,
exhibitions, etc., is going to be at the
Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois
April 27 - 29, 2001. http://www.ourworldunderwater.com
Our
World Underwater
P.O.
Box 803
Tinley
Park, Illinois 60477
I have put together four generic A4 posters to which club and
contact
information can be added in the blank spaces. They can be
found on the
B.O.A. web site at: http://www.britishoctopush.org
and then clicking on "Publicity Posters" in the "Member
Services"
section.
The posters are in Adobe Acrobat format, and the summary page
also
contains
a link to Adobe's web site, from which readers for a number of
different
platforms can be downloaded. I hope they are of use to new and
existing
clubs; any further ideas welcome.
Press
releases - Courtesy
of
Big Jim - One of the best ways to get free publicity it
to write
you own article, supply pictures and send/e-mail it to every
publication in your area. There are so many ad type papers
these days
that are understaffed that they will often print your article
as
submitted. Get a catchy headline like "Extreme sport, extreme
fun" or
"A new zero gravity sport in town". Make sure you
include a
contact name, phone number, fax, e-mail. Label it "press
release"
announcing your new team.
After an article is printed, copy it and go to every
pool and
dive shop and ask to post the article. Include little tear off
slips
with your psoting so folks can stick them in their purse or
wallet.
Make sure you check regularly to see if its still up. Folks
often
complain that silly articles are written about their sport.
This is one
way to get positive publicity. This really does work!
Remember to make new folks feel really welcome. Have an
education/training time. Use a lots of positive feedback and
hide your
the super competitive types.
Team building
Organize
a
Club,
This
is how the Wellington Underwater Hockey Association does it.
Start your own team: Part 1, Part 2,
Part 3,
from
Mark
Nakamura
"The Junior Team Method": from Hockeynet by Alisdair,
July 2000:
In five years Calgary will have a core group
of 30+ players compared to our core of about 10 right now.
This is
completely
because of our junior program. Not only that, but we will have
20 or so
twenty year olds with 6-8+ years of experience already.
Set up a junior program. We charge about $40 (Cdn)
per 9 night 1.5 hour session and parents rent equipment
through an
agreement
with our local dive shop. Costs are recouped plus a little
extra for
the
club (roughly 10
cents/hour, but hey, you aren't doing this for
the money). We run 3 three month programs from September to
June. Put
up
posters in the local swimming pools, notices in every
community
bulletin
and throw in a demo round about mid august at a local pool
with lots of
kids for two hours on a busy weekend afternoon and you
should get
enough.
We run with a target of forty kids per pool session. About
30 show up
on
every night at this rate giving you 4 good sized teams. You
will need 1
coach per 8 kids in the water and 1 organizer. Target ages
10-14 to
start.
They are the easiest to recruit and relatively good at
staying on task
without needing a high number of coaches shepherding them.
Our program started like that just three years
ago. This year we had about 70 youth from 8 - 17 years old
play on two
different nights (8-14, 14-18). We are currently driving
towards a goal
of 120 youth for September plus our high school outreach
program that
is
taught in regular phys-ed classes. Start small, get parents
involved
and
set up a reasonable growth program. Try asking other youth
sport groups
in the area how they fund raise and you might find something
good to
help
out with money. That means that the club can start to cut
player fees
and
attract even more players.
