Category Archives: Canoe Polo

Shrewsbury Canoe Club has an active National League canoe polo team with training sessions in the Quarry Leisure Centre, on the River Severn, & at PGL Baschurch. You can find out more about it here.

Winter Canoe Polo Pool Sessions

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The polo pool sessions will be starting Monday 9th January, 8pm to 9pm, at Shrewsbury’s Quarry Centre, Priory Pool.

New players get their first session free and then the cost is £6 thereafter. Be there from 7:30pm if you’d like a briefing on the rules.

All competent paddlers are welcome. If you haven’t played polo before, competent means you should be happy paddling forwards and backwards, doing sweep-stroke turns, and removing your spray-deck underwater. We are again splitting the session into polo paddling & playing skills, followed by back-to-back 3 or 4-a-side games.

If you can’t yet roll we won’t push you in until we’ve taught you how!

Shrewsbury promoted to National Div3 South West

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After being runner’s up in National Div4 Central two years running, and then getting walloped in the play-offs, the national polo committee have decided to split Div 3 from two regions into three and promote Shrewsbury up alongside Avon, Aberfan, Cherwell & Nomad.

So with that southern-western bias these are all this season’s Div3 SW tournaments:

Cheltenham, 15 Oct
 {Not playing} Aberfan, Celtic, Nomad, Avon D, Bridgend, Cherwell, Cardiff

Stratford, 29 Oct
 Shrewsbury, Nomad, Avon C, Blackwater, Bridgend, Cherwell

Cheltenham, 3 Dec
 Shrewsbury, Aberfan, Celtic, Avon C, Avon D, Blackwater, Cardiff

Cheltenham, 7 Jan
 Shrewsbury, Aberfan, Celtic, Nomad, Avon C, Avon D

Cheltenham, 18 Feb
 {Not playing} Nomad, Avon C, Avon D, Blackwater, Bridgend, Cherwell, Cardiff

Cheltenham, 17 Mar
 Shrewsbury, Aberfan, Celtic, Blackwater, Bridgend, Cherwell, Cardiff

Looking forward to an exciting season.

Autumn Canoe Polo Pool Sessions

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Here’s advance notice that polo pool sessions will be starting up again at Shrewsbury’s Quarry Centre, in the Priory Pool from Monday 3rd October, 8pm to 9pm.

New players get their first session free and then the cost is £6 thereafter. Be there from 7:30pm if you’d like a briefing on the rules.

All competent paddlers are welcome. If you haven’t played polo before, competent means you should be happy paddling forwards and backwards, doing sweep-stroke turns, and removing your spray-deck underwater. We are splitting the session into polo paddling & playing skills, followed by at least four 4-a-side games.

If you can’t yet roll we won’t push you in until we’ve taught you how!

Summer polo @ PGL Boreatton Park

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We have arranged the following dates for our Tuesday evening practise & training sessions. These are open to any competent paddlers who are interested in playing canoe polo. They run over a couple of hours where we play full length games, practise tactics & setup training scenarios.

Mail polo@shrewsburycanoeclub.org or let Jen Bara know if you would like to come along & play on these dates:

5th July
19th July
2nd August
16th August
23rd August
30th August

Two final dates added, gate arrival time remains 6:15pm:
13th September
27th September – Cancelled due to insufficient light – See you in the pool 3 Oct

All competent paddlers welcome. If you haven’t played polo before, competent means you should be happy paddling forwards and backwards, doing sweep-stroke turns, and removing your spray-deck underwater. But we promise not to push you in if you can’t roll :-)

Postcode SY4 2EZ or mail polo@shrewsburycanoeclub.org for more information.

Div4 Central League season 2010/11

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Shrewsbury Canoe Club polo team snatched second place from Viking (again) to qualify for the play-offs for Division 3 Central 2011/12.

According to this post they are being held at the home of Aberfan Canoe Club in Taff Bargoed near Cardiff on 14/15 May:

Taff Bargoed Lakes
Trelewis
Treharris
Merthyr Borough
CF46 6RD

See you there – babies, birthdays, and assorted anniversaries permitting!

Polo links

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Some useful links about Canoe Polo.

Main international site: http://www.canoepolo.com/
BCU rules 2011: http://www.canoepolo.org.uk/ Useful Info
ICF update 2011: PDF here

ICF referee’s course: kayaksplus.com/DraftICFRefereesCourse.htm

Main GB discussion site: www.canoepolo.com/forum/14-great-britain

BCU site (not recently updated): www.canoepolo.org.uk
Currently under maintenance:www.canoepolo.org/wiki/Main_Page

Tuesday evenings for summer polo (2010)

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From Tuesday 13 April 2010, and for the rest of the summer, we will be playing polo 8-9pm in the Priory pool, Shrewsbury Leisure Centre.

All competent paddlers welcome. If you haven’t played polo before, competent means you should be happy paddling forwards & backwards in a pool, doing sweep-stroke turns, and removing your spray-deck underwater. But we promise to try not to push you in if you can’t roll :-)

We can provide all the specialist kit in a range of sizes. You should bring normal swimming kit, and preferably, a short-sleeve t-shirt or rash vest, as well as paddling booties or similar. See you down there bright & early (7:30pm) if you’d like a quick overview of polo. Standard fees are £6 per session for big people and £3 for under-14′s.

We can also arrange for group introduction sessions if a number of you wish to start at the same time. We have already done formal introduction sessions for both Meole Brace Scouts and Shropshire Paddlesport. Other groups are welcome to contact us on mailto:polo@shrewsburycanoeclub.org

Regards,
Dylan

New Year – New Night ! Polo night is now… Monday evenings.

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From January 2010, and for the rest of the winter, we will be playing on Monday evenings 8-9pm in the Priory pool, Shrewsbury Leisure Centre.

All welcome.

From April through September the sessions will switch to Tuesdays at the same time. This will allow people to do Monday Frankwell river sessions as well as polo. After a long negotiation with the pool managment they have confirmed that this winter/summer cycle should continue for as long as we wish.

See you down there bright & early (~7:30pm) from Monday 4 January.

Shropshire this year – next year Strasbourg!

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What wife+child saw on the French exchange last May – and in our colours too – or at least what we ordered instead of the blue, white & green that was delivered.

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Though we’ll have to get a lot better to play either Normandy or Paris, and we may have difficulty playing in the French National league. What’s the French for “Aww Ref!”?