RMIT Waterski and Wakeboard Club

RMIT Waterski and Wakeboard club Issue 2, May, 2001

Welcome!

Hi all,

Another summer has passed with some The first inter-club presidents meeting great results for our club. Apart from for the year was also held a couple of the Wipeout and Australian University weeks ago. Monash, LaTrobe, Waterski and Wakeboard Championships Melbourne, Swinburne, Chisholm and (AUC), our last competition for the RMIT were all represented. The social season was held at Myuna Bay near calendar was decided for the year with Newcastle on the 5th of May with Tara many events planned, which I hope you and myself making the trek north. will all help to support. A Working Bee was organised for the 15th July in After a successful Annual General Deniliquin, as well as the decision that Meeting (AGM), we are also proud to Mason’s Paringa Caravan Park should announce our new committee, a big become a can-only park, to avoid the thankyou to our new members who took potential damage that glass can make the next step: Kirsty, Michael, Andrew, around the camp site. It looks like Matt and Fiona. We rely on a continual Nepean Uni is hosting AUC early next flow of new members to keep our club at year and Wipeout, a Victorian based the high level we are all used to. tournament is to be hosted by Chisholm Uni in early December. On that note, a big congratulations to the winners of Sport and Rec awards at Yes, skiing does still happen in the cold, the RMIT Sports Ball a couple of weeks and this winter our first camp ago. Rick, Troy, Tara, Kelly, Daniel, and confirmed is the 30th June to 2nd July at myself were all worthy winners of these Hazelwood, the water is warm, the camp awards, fire is hot and Robbo from Latrobe is I’m sure we’d all agree that it was nice organising some yummy food for us all. to get some recognition for our hard Please let us know if you are interested work on and off the water. Adding to in this great event, all the uni’s are going these achievements, we also won “Club and it’s going to be huge! of the Year” award for the second year and an award from Sport and Rec for The Houseboat trip is the first event one of the best displays during O-Week. for the new season and organisation starts now. Echuca is the venue and I need to know in the next month before Flight Attendants into supplying free the end of next month who is coming. It alcohol and upon arrival cleared out the will be held in late November after mini-bar for them. Being true to form, exams. Last year we took two boats and driver Dan from Newcastle Uni was about 20 keen skiers, and it was a great waiting with two esky’s full of green week to kick-start the summer. cans for our two-hour trip to Newcastle. Carrying about a dozen people and a The last thing I want to mention is the multitude of ski’s, gear, and computer delivery of this Newsletter. This will be equipment, we were off. Apart from our the last mail-out before it being little detour to south Sydney (the delivered via e-mail, so follow the driver is from Newcastle!), we made it in directions below so you can become part one piece. Tara, I will not mention our of the club’s e-group. As students you toileting incident in someone’s front all have an e-mail address or you can use yard! your personal address. Remember, as After dumping our stuff at the so aptly members you all have access to this named Wangi Wangi Holiday Park, we great club where you can ski and made it to the Wangi Wangi pub for socialise to your hearts content, so qualifying. Needless to say, the make the best use of it and join in. We Victorian’s were the life of the party always need new members coming that night and made our quota to qualify through the ranks, so just call or e-mail for the following days skiing with ease. any of the committee to find out about Saturday morning, bright and early we upcoming events and join our e-group! made it down to the site to begin the Ski you later, events. Tara and I were first off in Jaslin women’s slalom. I was actually second off the dock at 8am, but had a little collision with number five buoy and ended up hitting the wake quite hard Carnage Cup with my chest. Breathing soon became difficult and by 9am I was in Belmont On Friday 4th May, Tara and I made our hospital. Anyway some great drugs and way to Tullamarine Airport for the a few X-Rays later, it was discovered I’d annual Carnage Cup near Newcastle at partially collapsed my lung and popped Myuna Bay. Being the smarter sex, we some joints between my ribs. I’d come flew Qantas, and the other Victorian to sunbake anyway! So I enjoyed the conglomerate, the males, flew Ansett. skiing for the day, bandaged up, in my Our flight was uninteresting, and on bikini’s, enthusiastically popping pain touching down in Sydney quickly realised relieving drugs. Tara tried her hand at the boys trip was anything but. the slalom course, (don’t worry, you’ll Adorned with crash helmets and ski get it next year) and the Victorian’s did vests they apparently seduced the us proud. Grunta and John (MF) from Monash ran the event to precision along time everyone else arrived (Namely with Dan from Swinburne, Robbo and Andreas). Good Friday we awoke to Tara, all helping to run the days three beautiful weather and a glassy river. events. We thought this was a NSW This turned out to be the trend for the tournament! Some great skiing was seen weekend: great weather during the day among the males with top skiers Joel but freezing at night (Though most of Wing, Chris Cockburn and Andrew us did not find this a problem and Morris all vying for places in the three managed to find someone warm to events. Elise Cockburn, Chris’ cousin snuggle with!). Friday night was spent at came bursting onto the scene with some R.S.L with Fiona being too young to see great skiing too, which is encouraging the band so instead went back to camp for the women’s scene. to throw up. Saturday, Andreas and Saturday night was at the local Bowling Mark had the brilliant idea of trying club and the theme was St Vinny’s barefooting and were soon joined by evening wear, and I must say Tara and I nearly the entire RMIT camp to have a (thanks to Savers), looked stunning in go with Grunta as the instructor. our lovely colourful numbers (circa early Andreas and Troy mastered it easily, 1980’s!). With Panadeine Forte in tow, I the rest of us made courageous ended up coming 3rd in slalom and winning attempts, but ended up quite sore by the coveted “Carnage” award, that’s the end. Saturday night was the slave what I came to win anyway! auction at the White Lion. Cayce and Sunday brought rain and more rain, and Stephanie were the volunteers, quite the wakeboarding event was cancelled. reluctantly, but made good money, Problems with the Newcastle bus having especially Stephanie who was seeing just flat tyres (a whole other story!), led us how much money she could go for by to swiping a lift with the Nepean boys in removing clothing. Once again on Sunday their bus. Wet, tired, but satisfied the weather was amazing, barefooting with our attempted assault on the title, was tried again as well as Jas and Waz we flew home. We’ll be there next year, showing us their tricking skills. The hopefully spending more time atop the Easter bunny was running a little late water and out of the hospital! with the Sambuca eggs not coming out Jaslin until late in the morning, which gave people enough time to either recover from the night before or see them Easter at Deni coming and avoid them. We said goodbye Easter could not have been better than to Andreas and Luke who had to leave what it was this year. It started on the early to depart on their trip around Thursday night with four carloads Australia that week. Sunday night it was making their way up to Deniliquin. Some off to the White Lion for dinner, as arrived earlier than others and this was nobody serves pasta in Deni and Tara noticed by the state they were in by the was quite upset, followed by another trip to the R.S.L. Tara successfully shenanigans, boat-bimbo flashing convinced everyone to buy her drinks shenanigans, and even some shenanigans for her birthday and once again Fiona involving salt, tequila and lime… drank more than she could handle. Being Easter Sunday the place closed early so We saw superman (aka Jeff) land his it was back to the campground where we first-ever backroll, and convenor John, had to stay up till 3.15am to celebrate who strangely woke up in a different ski the exact time Tara was born as well as park the first morning, carried to her very public display of affection to hospital after a rally-gone-wrong. every boy in sight. Monday was filled by Needless to say, a beer remained skiing all day and it was early evening permanently attached to his ‘good’ arm before we decided to depart. The trip in true Gorman style. home involved a mandatory stop at La Porchetta in Echuca to have the pasta Unfortunately the timing of the event we missed out on the night before. saw many Victorians choose to attend Flee the more official Carnage tournament the following weekend and miss out on Shenanigans (27-29 April) all the fun…or should I say shenanigans? We didn’t come away unarmed though, Wollongong Wakeboard Club, traditional with Victoria taking out the ‘Most hosts of this now biannual wakeboarding Unrepresented Team’ award – congrats tournament, put on a great weekend of to all! true ‘shenanigans’. With the high Bronwyn Giles standard of riding, the ‘no-rain’ guarantee and CUB as the major sponsor, we had all we needed for a huge weekend at the Nowra Animal Park. Sports Ball This unofficial tournament is not quite what you’d expect. With points awarded After a top performance by RMIT at for costumes, attempted inverts and the Australian Waterski and Wakeboard general shenanigans, this event can be Championships in early February this taken out by the fairest of punters. I year, those on the organising committee guess you could say that the event is not did not go unnoticed. As hosts of the really about how well you can ride, but event for 2000, several of those on the how much fun you can have riding. You committee were rewarded by Sport and could also say it’s about the Recreation in the way of Sports Awards shenanigans…the trampoline and were invited to the Sports Awards shenanigans, blindfold shenanigans, Ball. boxed shenanigans, cross-dressing . Acknowledgement of shenanigans (Cory!), hours of SLIDER Contribution awards went to Rick Franich, Daniel Sullivan and Kelly hands of the RMIT Waterski and Royans for coordination of Wakeboard Club once again. promotions, sponsorship and Kelly treasury respectively, as well their skiing/boarding results at AGM the competition. . Jaslin Kearney was awarded a The Annual General Meeting was held on Half Blue Award for Sporting the 26th of April at RMIT City. You will Excellence, coming first in find a contact list of committee women’s overall, along with her members by position attached to the contribution in arranging all back of this newsletter. catering for the week Congratulations to the 2001 committee, . Troy vom Braucke and Tara and we hope the success will continue. Watson were awarded Full Blue Awards for all of their administration and coordinating CLUB E-mail LIST of the event as Convenors. All who attended had a great night out. Latin dancers demonstrating their riske The club now has an e-mail list (called an Latino style entertained us. Awards “e Group”). E-mail relevant to club were announced and received by members can be sent to respective recipients and we danced the [email protected] and it will night away. automatically be sent to everyone who is A surprise for us all came with the a member on the list! It is a great way announcement of CLUB OF THE YEAR. to keep in touch with club members and Yes, for the second year in a row, this committee about upcoming events and honour was awarded to RMIT Waterski camps. To become a member e-mail and Wakeboard Club. Our thanks should [email protected] and he’ll put go the Committee of 2000 who worked you on it. You’ll receive an e-mail asking hard to make the club what it was. you to confirm your subscription. Especially President of 2000, Daniel Sullivan, who with the help of the Our Club has a web page at committee put much time and effort http://minyos.its.rmit.edu.au/~wski/ into making the club the most successful Check it out! It has maps to our main at RMIT. Let’s hope that this great ski sites, including Bridgewater and a result can be achieved for a third time Bulletin board to update you on upcoming in 2001. With a new committee and new events. members let’s continue the good work. So everyone, get involved, ski hard, ski often, and we will be well on our way to UP AND COMING EVENTS… bringing that HUGE Trophy into the Hazelwood and is an awesome introduction to the big summer of skiing ahead. We will From Friday 30th June – Monday 2nd need a deposit of about $30 before the July, come skiing with RMIT and the end of the-mid year holidays and the other Melbourne uni’s. The water is cost for the Executive houseboat for warm (no joke!) and Robbo is cooking us the week is around $240 per person. some fantastic food. This is a great way If you are interested don’t hesitate to to relax, unwind and socialise with the give Jaslin a call. best after exams. Contact Jaz for details. Calendar of events

As we can’t ski at Bridgewater this year, 30/6 – 2/7: Post exams Hazelwood we will be running a number of trips to weekend Hazelwood over winter. So make sure 13/7: Swinburne boat race you join the e-group to find out when championships… it’s important that you the next trip is, or just call and ask. all begin preparing for this beer sculling bonanza as soon as possible Ball 15/7: Working Bee at Deniliquin. This is where we repair things like the jump The annual Waterski and Wakeboard ramp, the dock, and we prepare the site Ball is coming up on the 31st of August, for the following summer with the theme of “BOND” (as in James 27/7: Annual Cocktail Party. A huge Bond, 007). This wonderful event is to night - fantastic prices, stay tuned for be held at the Moonee Valley details Racecourse, with the cost yet to be 31/8: Annual Waterski ball determined. Rumour has it that there is 12/10: Booze Cruise Extravaganza, going to be an awesome band there to again stay tuned for more info keep us entertained, along with plenty 26/11-3/12: houseboat trip of food and beverages. This is a great Early December: Wipeout. A Great night to meet skiers from other clubs. waterski tournament for beginners and Keep your eyes and ears open for more those wanting to qualify for AUC. information. As you can see there is a brilliant range Houseboat Trip of events coming up throughout the year, if you are interested in attending As Jaslin has mentioned, this annual trip any (or all) of them you can call a is currently being planned so we need to committee member, join the egroup, or know of your interest immediately. The check out the website. dates for this fantastic week of skiing Cheers until next time! and relaxation is to be held from the 26th November- 3rd of December 2001