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July 2007 - December 2007

From: British Inline Puck Hockey Association

Updated - Saturday, 29 December 2007

Tragic and sudden loss of Gareth Adshead - Crumpsall Coyotes

With great sadness we report the tragic and sudden death of
Gareth Adshead (18) who died on Friday evening as the result of a car accident.

Gareth was a fierce competitor on the pad and a friend to many.

His presence will be sadly missed.

Our heartfelt sympathies go to Craig and family, his friends and his team mates in their time of need.

We ask that you respect the privacy of the family at this sad time,
if you wish to email a message of condolence please click here
Otherwise you may post your message to the dedicated page by following this link

Details of the funeral arrangements have been posted to the British Inline Puck Hockey Association website click here

From: Federation International de Roller Sports

Thursday, 13 December 2007

CHARLES WAHLIG of Wilmington, Delaware, an acclaimed international benefactor for roller sports, passed away December 7, 2007 after sustained illness caused by cancer. He was 74 years old. Charles Wahlig had dedicated 63 years of his lifetime to intense involvement and support of amateur competitive roller skating.

IN MEMORY OF CHARLES WAHLIG
HIS LIFE OF SERVICE TO USA ROLLER SPORTS

December 12, 2007

CHARLES WAHLIG of Wilmington, Delaware, an acclaimed international benefactor for roller sports, passed away December 7, 2007 after sustained illness caused by cancer. He was 74 years old. Charles Wahlig had dedicated 63 years of his lifetime to intense involvement and support of amateur competitive roller skating. Along this path, Charlie garnered many laurels, first as an athlete and then as a coach in speed and artistic roller skating. Later, he and his wife Connie created their family livelihood from the development, ownership and successful management of roller skating rinks. At the same time, Charlie dedicated substantial amounts of time and talent to the management of programs in his roller sport federation, where he was often the one person who was most uniquely qualified to deal with the challenge. He always found it difficult to say no to any request for help that originated from his sport.

To read the full obituary on the Federation International de Roller Sports website click here

The following tribute is from a senior member of the Federation of Inline Speed Skating

Charles had been a good friend of British speed skating for many years. The hospitality and help that he gave to the GB National Speed Team at the World Championships in Colorado Springs forged a friendship that goes back well over 20 years. His contribution to the sport of inline speed skating will be greatly missed. British Roller Sports would like to convey its condolences to Charles's family on their sad loss.

John Fry

From: National Roller Hockey Association of England

Wednesday, 5 December 2007

International Roller Hockey

Herne Bay United vs Hockey Club Prato (ITA)

The Pier, Herne Bay ~ Saturday, 15 December 2007

Having won the English Premier League title Herne Bay United seniors will be competing in the European League for the 2007/8 season.

This European league is made-up of clubs from among the national champions of each European country, the current holders of the Champions' League and the winner and runner-up of the CERS Cup 2006/7.

Herne Bay United is drawn in Group "B" along with FC Porto (PRT), Hockey Club Prato (ITA), Club Pati Vic (ESP) and has to play each club both at home and away. The home match with the Spanish Club, Pati Vic was played at The Pier on 17 November, the forthcoming match with the Italian Club HC Prato takes place on Saturday 15 December, and the third home match, with FC Porto is scheduled for 19 January.

Aileen Baker said:
The Italians - Hockey Club Prato - are the visiting team on this occasion. Their player coach is the only name familiar to us - Enrico Bernadini. A veteran now and we saw him recently in an exhibition game in Montreux at the World Championships. He may not have quite the speed he had in 1999 but he now has the extra experience to use his skills to very good effect. He also still has the trademark of wearing only one glove!

to read more about this, evening of International Roller Hockey click here

From: International Federation of Roller Sports

Friday, 30 November 2007

ROLLER SPORTS
&
THE OLYMPIC GAMES

Dear Friends of rollersports,

The time has come for rollersports to change skin and achieve a brand new identity. I used the term “identity” and not “new image” because the planning and communication project activated by FIRS is a wider and more comprehensive strategy, created with a professional approach towards media and public.

Thinking professionally is the only possible path driving us safely to the IOC Session Copenhagen 2009, a date where the Olympic Programme shall be revised and where the fate of our sports can be changing forever, much depending on our common efforts.

We want Roller sports in the Olympic Games, so here is the project “ROLLER FOR OLYMPICS by FIRS”: a new professional project, with a new unique logo and an increased staff in the FIRS Headquarters in Rome, with distinguished roles and responsibilities working on different activities according to planned deadlines. Key man of this Olympic project is Mr Luciano Barra, former member of the Italian Olympic Committee and Vice General Director of the Winter Olympics Turin 2006, a man whom I can easily call “the right man at the right place”. Mr Barra shall supervise the FIRS contacts with the Olympic Commission and the IOC Members, as the official spokesman for roller sports.

To read the rest of this FIRS Mission Statement, jump to the FIRS website

From: National Roller Hockey Association of England

Updated - Sunday, 2 December 2007

24 November ~ 1 December

National Rink Hockey Association of England, Head coach Carlos Amaral has named the under 20 team for this years Under 20 World Roller Hockey Championships.

After months of preparation at national training weekends in Peterborough the successful players will start their journey to San Miguel, Chile on the evening of Wednesday 22nd November.

The team will travel together on the 13 hour flight to Santiago via Madrid and will stay in a top class hotel during the championships.

To read the complete story on the NRHA website Click Here

To read the team managers over view of the last three games on the NRHA website

To visit the event website (Spanish language)

Final scores

Event website photograph gallery

Chile v England (Game 1) : England v Portugal (Game 13) : England v Ecuador (Game 23)
England v Brazil (Game 27) : Australia v England (Game 34) : South Africa v England (Game 42)

From: South Woodham Ferrers Roller Speed Skating Club

Thursday, 22 November 2007

The dedication and determination of the
South Woodham Ferrers Rollerspeed Skating Club
has been rewarded recently after winning
‘Club of the Year 2007’
at the glittering Essex Sports Awards in Chelmsford.

The Essex Sports Awards celebrate and recognise the very best in sport in Essex and those people who participate, support its provision and invest personally in its ongoing development.

The Club were one of three finalists short listed from a record number of nominations, along with Brentwood Trampoline Club & Earls Hall Junior Football Team. With a fantastic year of results the Club were announced as the winners and presented the top honour by Baker Tilley, sponsor of the award.

To read more click here

International Roller Sports Federation FIRS

Saturday, 10 November 2007

Artistic Roller World Championships 2007

Gold Coast, Australia

31 October ~ 10 November 2007

For all the results connect to this page.

For video clips of some of the presentations connect to this page.

From: South Wales Evening Post

Wednesday, 10 October 2007

SPORTS COUNCIL FOR WALES
FUNDING SEMINAR
Carmarthen, Tuesday, 16 October 2007

Sports clubs in South West Wales have been invited to a seminar
to highlight funding opportunities next week.

Clubs from Swansea, Carmarthenshire and Neath Port Talbot
have been invited by the Sports Council for Wales to a meeting at
The Halliwell Centre, Trinity College, Carmarthen on
Tuesday 16 October, commencing at 19.00

To read more about this item click here

From Federation of Inline Speed Skating

Saturday, 6 October 2007

FEDERATION OF INLINE SPEED SKATING

BRSF Level 2 Coach Training Course

SOUTH WOODHAM FERRERS LEISURE CENTRE, CHELMSFORD, ESSEX
The leisure centre is within skating, or taxi distance of the railway station.
for a zoom-in, zoom-out map & aerial photograph click here.

The Federation of Inline Speed Skating is delivering a BRSF Level 2 Coach Training course
spread over four days, two Saturdays & two Sundays, in early November

To read more about the details of this coach course on our Coaching Page click here

From: The Labour Party Conference

Wednesday, 3 October 2007

Government announce £5million Coach Campaign

Rt. Hon James Purnell MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Speaking at the Labour Party Conference, Bournemouth, Monday 24 September 2007
. . . . so, today, I am launching a campaign for coaching. With 3000 new professional sports coaches in our schools and clubs. And now 10,000 new volunteer coaches, people like Neil, who can teach their children new skills, and their communities new confidence.

To read the full story click here

From Southport YMCA

Monday, 1 October 2007

SOUTHPORT

PRESS RELEASE

Southport YMCA breaking new ground in Coach Education in Europe

Dr Hamish McD Telfer demonstrates how coaching techniques form other sports can be implemented into Acrobatic/ Half Pipe Inline Skate Coaching to Jenna Downing and Chaz Sands. The first level 3 coach education programme for Acrobatic/ half pipe Inline skating in Europe was held in early September at Rampworx Youth Village in Liverpool this month by Southport YMCA in partnership with the British Roller Sports Federation supported by funding from the Big Lottery Young People’s Fund.

To our knowledge this is the only course in this discipline available outside Woodward, California.

To read the complete Press Release click here

From: Southport YMCA

Friday, 7 September 2007

SOUTHPORT

SOUTHPORT YMCA
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
THE BRSF & SPORTS COACH UK
Level 2 Coaching Certificate for
Generic Roller Skating & Basic Skateboarding

Late October & Early November 2007
Southport

The BRSF Level 2 Coaching Qualification is appropriate
for teaching young people to skate in schools and leisure centres
and is becoming the standard qualification required by an increasing number of
Education Authorities and Local Authority Leisure Departments cross the UK.

For full details of venue and contact details click here to connect to our coaching page.

From Comité Européen de Roller Inline Hockey

Wednesday, 5 September 2007

Comité Européen de Roller Inline Hockey

Opens its own website to promote
Inline Hockey within Europe

The European Committee for Inline Roller Hockey, a
Technical Committee of the Confederation of European Roller Skating
is commissioned to promote the discipline of inline roller hockey within Europe.

To enable CERILH to promote the sport to as wide an audience as possible
they have launched a website presented in English, French and Spanish language.

Over the next few weeks the website will become the central source of information
for news and tournament information from across Europe.

Please connect to: http://europeinlinehockey.com and bookmark it as one of your favourite websites

From: Southport YMCA

Tuesday, 28 August 2007

SOUTHPORT

BRITISH ROLLER SPORTS FEDERATION
in partnership with
SOUTHPORT YMCA & RAMPWORX

Are offering a Level 3 Coach Education Course
for
Acrobatic & Half Pipe Inline Skating

At the end of this programme learners will be able to:

Deliver safe, well managed activity in Acrobatic/ Half Pipe Skating,
Develop progressive training programmes to prepare athletes for competition,
Apply technical knowledge to Acrobatic/ Half Pipe coaching and
Evaluate and reflect on own coaching practice

For full details of the venues, dates, times, contact and registration details
are to be found on our Coaching Page

BIPHA, Central Region Monday, 20 August 2007

Goalie Clinic
Virtual Ice Inline, Rotherham,

Saturday, 8 September 2007

British Inline Puck Hockey Association, Central Region

is pleased to announce they will be organising a one-day Goalie Clinic

8th September 2007, at Virtual Ice Inline, Rotherham.

10.00 till 16.00
Cost £30 per player and includes lunch.

Placed are limited ~ Booking in advance is essential

Please phone Virtual Ice on 01709 830011

First Come ~ First Served

From: Federation of Inline Speed Skating Updated: Wednesday, 10 August 2007

TEAM GREAT BRITAIN

WORLD IN-LINE SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS

17 ~ 25 August 2007

CALI, COLOMBIA

Live Internet Television Broadcasts Available
Click here for more information

The Great Britain speed skating team leave for the World Championships
in Cali, Colombia, on the 10th August.
The five man team consists of Christopher Stafford, Vincent Henry and Gavin Pollock
who will skate both the track and road events and
Hans Brown and Simon Davis who will be added to the team for the marathon.

The World Championships starts on the 17th August and run through to the 25th August,
which means we have seven days to acclimatize and recover after our twenty hour flight.

Whilst three of our skaters are nursing injuries following falls in the European Championships last week,
we are confident they will be fully recovered before we arrive in Colombia and
can finish their preparation on the new track and road facility that has been built in Cali
especially for these World Championships.

More information on the World Championships
and all results can be found on the official website www.cali2007rollersport.com

From: British Inline Puck Hockey Association Friday, 03 August 2007

Condolences

It is with tremendous sadness that we have been inform of the tragic loss of one of the Welsh Regions most talented 'Stars'
and great characters Jonathan Hiles who died following a tragic accident whilst on holiday in Zante.

Jon, a player for Cardiff Capitals, Wales Superleague and a former GB player, passed away in Athens this morning.

Many of you will remember Jon as a friendly young man with great potential who had a passion for our sport.

This is a tremendous loss to our community

I am sure you will all join me in offering our condolences to the family, friends and team mates.

Our thoughts and prayers are with his dad Denzil and mum Peryn, also his younger brother James and sister, Jess.

Funeral Arrangements

The funeral of Jonathan Hiles will take place on Friday 10th August 2007
at Llandaff Cathedral, Llandaff, Cardiff, CF5 2EB.

The service is at 13.45 and will be followed by a private service at 14.30.

Flowers to be at the funeral home by no later than 11.45am or
donations if preferred to
'Headway' via Green Willow Funeral Home, 33 St Isan Road, Heath, Cardiff, CF14 4LU.

Enquiries if necessary to John on 02920 755555

YMCA Southport. Tuesday, 31 July 2007

SOUTHPORT YMCA SOUTHPORT RUN
LEVEL 2 COACH EDUCATION COURSE FOR SKATEBOARDING

This weekend Southport YMCA has successfully run the first level 2
coach education programme for Skateboarding in Europe.
10 coaches from around the North West attended the course run by
British Roller Sports Federation in partnership with Sports Coach UK
and meets with national standards for coaching, teaching and instructing at level 2.

Teaching on the programme was David Nichols, President and Director of Coaching for British Roller Sports Federation and John Mills, Director of Coaching for British Cycling representing Sports Coach UK.

Southport YMCA now has a team of qualified level 2 skateboard coaches that can teach the basics of safe skateboarding in schools and community venues around Southport. The Board Smart programme, which has been adopted by British Roller Sports Federation was created by the young people of Southport YMCA Bridge Project and will be rolled out nationally in schools.

From September, a BRSF Level 3 Coach education programme for Acrobatic/ Half Pipe skating will run at Rampworx Youth Village in Liverpool.

If you are 16+ and would like to train for a qualification to coach Half Pipe or Acrobatic Skating, for more information contact Ben Severs Sports Development Officer (Roller Sports) on 01704 538317 ben.s@southportymca.org

Picture: The first children in the UK from Southport YMCA to try the “Board Smart” programme with our coaches.

From Federation International de Roller Sports Saturday, 28 July 2007

MINUTES OF THE FIRS 2006 CONGRESS
MURCIA – SPAIN
2nd December 2006

Presidente Aracu: I firstly wish to welcome all delegates. Here beside me I am pleased to have the first Vice President
Valerie Leftwich, the Secretary General Roberto Marotta, and particularly, I was pleased to invite the
President of the Spanish Federation, Carmelo Paniagua and a very special guest, Mr Rafael BLANCO,
General Sports Director of the Consejo Superior de Deportes, whom I leave the floor for a few opening words . . .

To read the full report in English click here

To read the full report in Spanish click here

Roller Hockey on Television Updated Saturday, 28 July 2007

ROLLER HOCKEY

to be broadcast on Manchester Community Television Channel M

Now available in Channel M ~ Sports Archive ~ see below

The following item is reproduced from the National Roller Hockey Association of England website
and is acknowledged accordingly.

Channel M's Sports Central presented by Claire Dixon is to do a special feature on Roller hockey.

Sports Central aims to show the dynamic sport scene of Manchester, the venues, the athletes and coaches that compete with the best in the world.

The show has featured athletes such as Darren Campbell, Chris Hoy, Geoff Thomas and MBA Sarah Bailey, plus most, if not all of the major sports events in the North West.

Be sure not to miss the Roller Hockey Cup Final held in Manchester.

Sports Central Show times

Tues 24th 7 pm & 11 pm
Wed 25th 10.00 am & 3.30 pm
Thurs 26th 12.30 pm & 3.30 pm
Sat 28th 11 am & 1.30 pm
Sun 29th 12.30 pm

If you live in the Manchester region you can watch on SKY 203 & NTL 878

If you don’t live in the Manchester region watch it on the Internet on www.channelm.co.uk/sport

This item has now been archived for instant viewing
Connect to Channel M Activate the "Click here to view Channel M Now" button.
Click the "Search" button, select Category ~ "Sport" & Sub-Category ~ "Sport Central", Search for and select "Episode 37"

Then sit back and watch a worthy twenty minute item on Roller Hockey (Rink Hockey),
including excerpts from the National Roller Hockey Association 2007 Under 13 National Final.

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