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News Headlines - July 2008 - December 2008

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From: CBBC

Thursday, 18 December 2008

CBBC

is working with the

BRSF

to make a

Roller Skating Series

highlighted alongside

Click on the image alongside
to access the CBBC website homepage

click below to access the CBBC
"Be On a Show" page
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/cbbcshows/beonashow/

to download the CBBC Just Skate flyer (56kb)
click here

From: FIRS World Roller Figure Skating Championships

Monday, 1 December 2008

British Senior Dance Champions
Represent Great Britain at the
53rd Senior World Roller Figure Skating Championships
Kaohsiung, Chinese Taipei November 2008

The British Roller Sports Federation wish to congratulate
Darren Dyke & Kirsty Chick
in their success at representing Great Britain during the
Senior World Roller Figure Skating Championships,
held in Kaohsiung, Chinese Taipei over the past few days.

Darren & Kirsty's home club is the Phoenix Artistic Roller Skating Club in the Channel Island of Guernsey and there are two comprehensive reports on the club website . The earlier report which describes Darren & Kirsty's passage through the British Championships, which culminated in their selection to represent Great Britain at both "The European's" and "The World's", is actually the second report on the website. The more recent report describes their time at the World Championships.

The earlier report starts with the following paragraph:

A small team of skaters from the Phoenix Artistic Roller Skating Club have just returned from the 2008 Junior & Senior British Roller Skating Championships held in Haywards Heath, Kent. Senior Couple Darren Dyke and Kirsty Chick, following their four year partnership, finally reaped the benefit of all the hard training and commitment by winning the Senior Dance title.

to read both of these reports click here and read both reports in reverse order.

From: British Inline Puck Hockey Association

Tuesday, 25 November 2008

CRIMINAL RECORDS BUREAU

Disclosure Applications

All adults working with children and young people under the age of 18 should be aware of the requirement that people working with children and young people are required to submit themselves to a Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) Disclosure check at periodic intervals.

What may not be so widely known is how individuals set about obtaining a CRB Disclosure.

CRB Disclosure applications are initially processed (document checking etc.) on behalf of the Criminal Records Bureau by third party organisations that have been granted the status of an Umbrella Body, (also known as a Registered Body)
(click here for an explanation)

What may not so widely known is that the British Inline Puck Hockey Association, who are an affiliate of the British Roller Sports Federation have held the status of an Umbrella Body for some years and are able to provide a CRB disclosure checking service for both clubs and individuals.

Governing Bodies of individual disciplines and many clubs and many individuals will already have made satisfactory arrangements to apply for and receive CRB Disclosures, the following notes are for those new to this process and to those who are looking to review their existing arrangements.

to read the rest of this important announcement click here.

From: BIPHA, South Wales

Thursday, 20 November 2008

click the icon to access the BIPHA website

Under 10's Winter Festive ~ Inline Hockey Tournament

10:00 Sunday 7th December 2008

Pen yr Heol Leisure Centre, Swansea

FESTIVE FUN

As part of the development of Inline Roller Hockey for younger players in the South Wales area,
a Winter Festive Tournament has been arranged for U10 players

If you are a young person and would like to take part in a taster event for
novice roller skaters and learners and live within reasonable travelling distance of Swansea (M4, J47)
You are invited to come to Pen yr Heol Leisure Centre for a short skate along session,
commencing at 10:00 on Sunday, 7th December.

The days main event is intended to be an Under 10's Inline Hockey tournament,
based on players from clubs in the BIPHA South Wales region.
(there are clubs in Swansea, Carmarthen, Cardigan, Llandysul, Cardiff, Pontypool, Gloucester & Exeter)

To read the rest of this story click here

From : FIRS President, Sabatino Aracu

Updated, Monday, 17 November 2008

INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF ROLLER SPORTS
meets
INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE

Dear friends of Rollersports,

I am very proud to tell you about the important meeting FIRS had in Lousanne on the 14th of November. We had, for the first time, the opportunity to show to the IOC Sports Programme Commission our sport.

At the table, to tell to the IOC Members about our world, were with me 3 former athletes of roller speed skating, acting as ambassadors of roller sports.

As you already know, myself I am a former athlete, Roberto Marotta, former World Champion, as the FIRS Secretary General, Ippolito Sanfratello who was 8 times World Champion and Derek Parra, who won Speed Skating World Championships 18 times.

But Ippolito Sanfratello and Derek Parra are also Olympic champions in ice speed skating.

At the end of their career as roller speed skaters, to won the only Medal they never had the chance to win, the Gold Olympic Medal, they had to switch to the ice.

But their hearts still beat for roller sports, and they were with us in front of the IOC Sports Commission to testify it.

To read the remainder of this FIRS Head Office Editorial, on the FIRS website click here
To view the new FIRS promotional video click here (11m31s)
To view all the individual (shorter) clips click here

From Federation International de Roller Sports

Wednesday, 29 October 2008

World Records for Speed Skating
Updated list published, 24 October 2008

FIRS Secretariat, Rome

The updated World Records of Roller Speed Skating are available on FIRS website.

In the pdf file, you can find the eight record for women and men on track and the eleven records for women and men on road with the related year, place and race.

To view the updated World Records of Roller Speed Skating click here

From: Middlesbrough Roller Hockey Club

Thursday, 23 October 2008

Middlesbrough Roller Hockey Club
Interviewed for Senata Sport TV

To be broadcast Friday & Saturday 24/10 & 25/10

This news story was originally published on TalkRollerHockey and
additional information has been provided by Dan Palmer

After a disappointing weekend away in Germany, ^{(note 1)} Boro’s sprits were lifted on Monday afternoon when Setanta Sports contacted Daniel Palmer stating that they want to film the hockey club playing a little bit of roller hockey and interview players about the sport.

Setanta wanted to make a promotional news video about our sport and link it with the coverage of the Middlesbrough Vs Blackburn game (soccer) this weekend live on Setanta Sport.

The news video should be appearing on Setanta Sports News Channel through out Friday (24/10) and Saturday (25/10).

To read the rest of this story .. .. .. .. .. click here

From: BRSF Reporter

20 October 2008

European Committee of Artistic Roller Skating
Senior & Junior
Artistic Roller Skating Championship 2008
Fuengirola, Andaluceia, Spain

An article by the BRSF roving reporter

The 2008 Junior & Senior Artistic Roller Skating Championships were held in the town of
Fuengirola, Costa del Sol, Spain Monday 22 September ~ Saturday 27 September 2008.

The Venue was a local authority sports hall, with raised seating for 420 spectators on each side of the hall. All the usual sports hall floor markings having been removed and replaced with a series of "8"'s.

Monday, 22/09 was the registration and practice day. Having never seen skaters practising their figures of eight, it was fascinating to see what the skaters were doing and how they were doing it!

Tuesday, 23/09 was the first of the competition days. In the morning the Junior Ladies & Junior Men's 'Figures' competitions, with the associated medal ceremony, the afternoon was set aside for practice sessions.
This story was updated 31 October 2008.
To read the full story click here.

From: European Committee for Inline Hockey

Thursday, 09 October 2008

Comité Européen de Roller Inline Hockey

2008 Champions Cup Tournament

The European Committee for Roller Inline Hockey
have released details of the
2008 CERILH European Champions Cup Tournament

The tournament will take place at
Rethal, France, Friday 28 November ~ Sunday 30 November

Great Britain is being represented by
Norton Cyclones (Winners BIPHA Senior Nationals 2008) &
Hallamshire Hornets (Winners BIPHA Senior Nationals 2007)

For details of the tournament order of play click here

From: BIPHA South Wales Region

Tuesday, 09 September 2008

British Inline Puck Hockey Association
South Wales Region

Referee's Course
27th & 28th September 2008
Pen-yr-Heol Leisure Centre, Gorseinon, Swansea, SA4 4FG

The provision of this course is to assist clubs in meeting their league requirement,
in addition to improve standards and to enable access to obtaining a
BIPHA Referee License (Certificate)

Anyone who has not attended such a course since 2005 MUST update their
Referee Licence to continue to participate in the regional referee pool.

The cost of this course is £40 per affiliated Welsh club,
for a minimum of one and up to five candidates,
or for clubs playing only senior games, a minimum of one and up to three candidates.

Any vacant places will be offered to BIPHA affiliated clubs from outside Wales
at a charge of £25 per candidate.

To read the full item, including contact details click here.

From: BRSF Coaching

Monday, 01 September 2008

Coach Education Tutors & Coach Education Assessors
Training and Standardisation Day
Sunday, 19 October 2008 ~ Swindon

The British Roller Sports Federation is looking to expand the number of
Roller Skating and Skateboarding coaches with the BRSF Coaching Award
across the United Kingdom.

The BRSF is facing an ongoing and substantial coach training and bridging programme.
Therefore the BRSF is also determined to expand the number of
Coach Education Tutors and Coach Education Assessors
to deliver and to validate coach education courses.

With this in mind the BRSF are looking to fill these posts by recruiting both from within and from without the roller sports community, from all four home countries within the UK.

On Sunday, 19 October 2008 the BRSF are holding a training and standardisation day in Swindon, to which all existing BRSF Coach Education Tutors and Coach Education Assessors are invited.

The purpose of this training day is to ensure that all tutors and assessors are clear about the standards to which BRSF courses should be delivered and to understand the importance of supplementary paperwork.
It is also to ensure equality of courses across the roller disciplines and across the four home countries.

Also welcome will be people wishing to become coach education tutors and coach education assessors, the prerequisites are:

●	hold a current BRSF Coaching Award,
●	hold or be working towards a teaching or assessing qualification recognised by 1st4sport,
●	to have substantial experience in coaching in any sport,
●	to work or have worked in the leisure industry in a management or sports development capacity

Pre-registration is essential, please contact Jill Rothwell (see below)

If you would like further information about becoming a roller sports coach education tutor, or a roller sports coach education assessor, please contact Jill Rothwell by using this email link.

From: British Inline Puck Hockey Association

Tuesday, 26 August 2008

TEAM GB TRIALS ~ INLINE HOCKEY

Dates Announced - Venue Sheffield

The British Inline Puck Hockey Association
are pleased to announce the dates of the
trials for the selection of
Team GB players for the 2009 season.

Team GB trials are open to all inline hockey players of any club or federation.

The only restriction placed upon persons attending these trials is the requirement
to hold a valid United Kingdom passport.

Trials for various age groups from U10 to senior men and senior women, are being held over a series of dates from late September to mid December in Sheffield.

This year an U18 Women's team and U21 Men's team are being introduced for the first time.

Details of dates, times and costs, can be found on the British Inline Puck Hockey Association website. click here.

From: BRSF Coaching

Monday, 25 August 2008

Coach Education Course
for Skateboard & Roller Skating Coaches
Manchester/ Cheshire Area

The British Roller Sports Federation in partnership with Sport4life
are delivering coach education courses
Level 1 Skateboard Coaches, Level 2 Skateboard Coaches & Level 2 Roller Skating Coaches
the courses are being delivered in the Manchester/ Cheshire area

Prerequisite:

Level 1 Skateboard coach course ~ For course content details click here	Candidates must be 16 years and older
Level 2 Skateboard coach course ~ For course content details click here	Candidates must be 18 years and older, it would be advantageous (but not essential) if candidates were currently coaching in any roller discipline or skateboarding.
Level 2 Roller Skating coach course ~ For course content details click here	Candidates must be 18 years and older, it would be advantageous (but not essential) if candidates were currently coaching in any roller discipline or skateboarding.

Following satisfactory completion of this programme learners will be issued with a BRSF Coaching Award, which is valid for three years, at which time a further course will be required.

Applications for Accreditation for Prior Learning should be submitted in writing to:- Jill Rothwell

For further information about dates, venues and costs contact:-

	PHONE	Jill Rothwell on: 0161 707 0782 or 07951 650 866
	WRITE	Sport 4 Life, Unit G3, Barton Hall, Hardy Street, Manchester, M30 7NB
	E-Mail	coaching@brsf.co.uk

From: World Anti Doping Agency

Saturday, 09 August 2008

World Anti-Doping Code Revision

World Anti-Doping Code

The World Anti-Doping Code was first adopted in 2003 and became effective in 2004.
The 2009 version incorporates revisions to the World Anti-Doping Code that were
approved by the World Anti-Doping Agency Foundation Board on 17 November 2007.
The revised World Anti-Doping Code becomes effective on 01 January 2009.

To download the revised Anti-Doping Code 2009 click here

To connect to the BRSF Sports Medicine page click here

From: The Home Office, London

Thursday, 07 August 2008

Action Against Steroid Abuse and GHB Type Drugs

People who take drugs to enhance their physical appearance, including those who aspire to take part in the 2012 London Olympics, are being warned against using anabolic steroids as the Government today announced its intention to add a further 24 anabolic steroids and two growth promoters to the list of those already classed as Class C drugs.

These drugs are already banned by sports authorities but they are not illegal at present.

The Government recognises the harms associated with the use of anabolic steroids and today’s move is to ensure that our drug controls are up to date, with the latest evidence of harms and availability of this group of drugs. These controls continue to be aimed at suppliers and traffickers who profit from selling and supplying these substances. >> >> >> more

From: Sport England

Sunday, 27 July 2008

SPORT ENGLAND

Consultation on Future Funding via the National Lottery

I would like to invite you to take part in the public consultation on how
Sport England distributes Lottery funding to support community sport.
The consultation document and response form is available at www.sportengland.org/lotteryconsultation

This consultation is very important to us and is your opportunity to influence the way in which we distribute around £45 million a year of National Lottery funding which makes a real difference to the future of sport in England.

It would be greatly appreciated if you could cascade the document to your organisational network, be it clubs, individuals or other bodies. Doing so will help ensure that we gain the views of as wide a sample of opinion as possible.

The consultation will run until Tuesday September 16th and should take no more than 20 minutes of your time to complete. Can I also encourage you to pass on details of the consultation to any colleagues or associates who you think would be interested. We want to encourage as wide a participation as possible.

If you require a hard copy of this consultation document or would like it to be translated into another language, braille or large print, please call the consultation help line on 0845 850 8508 or e-mail consultation@sportengland.org.

Many thanks in advance for taking the time to respond to this consultation.

Kind Regards,

Jennie Price
Chief Executive
Sport England

To read more about this consultation on the Sport England website click here

From: National Roller Hockey Association of England

Tuesday, 22 July 2008

International Roller Hockey

European Roller Hockey Championships

Oviedo, Spain

England Senior Men are currently attending the European Championships in Ovideo, Spain.

For daily news reports please connect to the

National Roller Hockey Association of England website

To read an article setting the scene click here

From: FIRS, CIRILH & BIPHA

Friday, 11 July 2008

ROLLER INLINE HOCKEY

2008 JUNIOR ROLLER INLINE HOCKEY
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

GOLD MEDAL SUCCESS

It is with great pleasure that the British Roller Sports Federation
on behalf of all British roller sports enthusiasts, congratulate

GB Under 18's, Roller Inline Hockey Team

in their success in bringing home to Great Britain the
GOLD MEDAL TROPHY
at the completion of the recent

International Federation of Roller Sports
2008 Junior Roller Inline Hockey World Championships

The 15 young players pictured alongside are Great Britain's U18's Roller Inline Hockey Team, who have recently returned home from the Fédération International de Roller Sports, Roller Inline Hockey Junior World Championships, held this year in Philadelphia, USA, bringing home the Gold Medal Trophy.

The other countries taking part were: USA (Silver), Canada, (Bronze), Czech Republic (4th), Mexico (5th), Germany (6th), Columbia (7th), Namibia (8th), Switzerland (9th) & New Zealand (10th)

The Great Britain Roller Inline Hockey U18's are managed and trained by the
British Inline Puck Hockey Association.
to connect to the British Inline Puck Hockey Association website click here

International Roller Inline Hockey is administered on behalf of the
Fédération International de Roller Sports, by the
Comité International de Roller In-Line Hockey.
to connect to the International Federation of Roller Sports, inline hockey page click here

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