APRIL 2020

A WORD FROM OUR CEO NEW STUDENT SPORTS COUNCIL Kia ora Whanau, Congratulations to the following students who will make During these unprecedented times one thing for sure up our Y.E.S.S - Student Sports Council for 2020! We is the importance of remaining connected. So please can’t wait to meet with you all and get some awesome reach out to those around or associated with you be it initiatives underway for the year! family, work colleagues, friends or neighbours. Please Aigalelei Leo – Cullinane College remember the power of showing kindness and empathy as this will bond and unite us all together and make us Maia Kaua - Cullinane College all even stronger. Tyler Edwards - Cullinane College At the moment there are many things Isis Dennison-Downie – Whanganui Girls’ College that are out of our control but please take care of yourself and your loved Siena McLean - Whanganui Girls’ College ones well-being, stick to routines where possible, exercise and keep Sophie King - Whanganui Girls’ College safe. Jakob Moorhouse – Whanganui High School Stay well and keep connected Nathaniel Kirk - Whanganui High School everyone. Nga mihi, Sophie Andrews - Whanganui High School Danny Jonas Phoebe Collier – Whanganui Collegiate School SPECIAL OLYMPICS POWERLIFTING Tahana Warren - Whanganui Collegiate School The Special Olympics powerlifting crew managed to have their first session in March. The four participants Mythias Cook – Whanganui City College had a great time learning a new technique which was Majre Apiata-Cook - Whanganui City College the squat. During their next session they will learn about deadlifting and bench-pressing. Unfortunately Ani Latus - Whanganui City College these have been put on hold until further notice. The Kyla Joseph - Whanganui City College athletes involved in powerlifting are also participating in the health programme. We will start this process again once the lockdown is complete. SUPPORTING YOUNG PEOPLE’S DISAPPOINTMENT you can do with a can of baked beans in a skills session,” says AT POSTPONEMENT AND CANCELLATIONS Waddell. “Home Advantage There is no doubt that is all about expert advice young people will be feeling delivered in a fun way for all disappointed with the loss ages and stages. What’s also exciting is the opportunity of sport. Parents can’t to try out new sports, and schools can use Home erase the disappointment Advantage as a free resource for their ongoing training their children feel, and PE.” particularly where seasons have ended abruptly or events have been cancelled, Iain Potter, CEO of Basketball NZ says, “Our athletes but there are ways they can support them through the were excited to create a sense of community during disappointment. physical isolation. We’re all in this together – athletes are exercising at home, and this allows Kiwis to get CLICK HERE for more information on the Balance is inspirational tips, motivation and exercise ideas from Better website. the best.” TUNE IN TO SKY SPORT NEXT Simply head to SkySport Next on You Tube each day for the featured Home Advantage video, all of which will be Some of New Zealand’s best-known coaches and available ongoing. Selected videos will also be available athletes will lead a series of daily sport coaching and on Prime, Sky Sport and stuff.co.nz. In addition, the Stuff challenges in an exciting new joint initiative from Sky team will be profiling the athlete or sport from the daily Sport Next, the New Zealand Sport Collective and stuff. video to look at how they are meeting the challenges of co.nz. There will be new sports added daily and the links the lockdown. will be updated for you every day on the School Sport NZ website in the Sport Co-ordinators Resource article. Today’ Sports are Touch, Tennis and Squash and the schedule for more is below. HELPFUL WEBSITES GOOD GENERAL HEALTH INFORMATION "Sky Sport Next's Home Advantage", is a series of short, www.healthyfood.com sport-specific coaching videos available free to air on the SkySport Next You Tube channel,” says gold-medalist www.sanitarium.co.nz Rob Waddell, head of the New Zealand Sport Collective. www.nutritionandactivity.govt.nz “I know it’s a challenge to stay fit and motivated for www.healthnavigator.org.nz your chosen sport when most of us are staying at home www.health.govt.nz/your-health/healthy-living/food- to help knock Covid-19 on the head. But even while activity-and-sleep/physical-activity we’re apart we can come together online with fantastic free coaching and inspiration from some of New LIVING WELL Zealand’s best athletes. www.agewell.org.nz “Sports stars like the Tall Blacks, Tall Ferns, Beach Blacks www.arthritis.co.nz and Touch Blacks, as well as star individuals such as www.heartfoundation.org.nz athlete and medal-winner Tom Walsh, World Number 5 squash player Paul Coll and www.asthmafoundation.org.nz golfer Ryan Fox, will help LEARNING AND GROWING VEGETABLES Kiwis sharpen their skills and keep in shape with pro www.yates.co.nz tips, so when things start www.ediblebackyard.co.nz to get back to normal, we www.vegetables.co.nz are all ready to roll.” FOR THE KIDS For the most part viewers won’t need www.kidspot.co.nz any special equipment www.healthykids.org.nz – coaches will be www.rosiesworld.co.nz encouraging trainee athletes to improvise. MAORI HEALTH “It’s amazing what www.tpk.govt.nz MIDWEEK LEAGUES FEEL LIKE WORKING OUT? Term 1 had been one of the most exciting terms of All you need is your body, a drink bottle and a chair. volleyball we have seen since the Midweek Leagues This is a timed workout with a work to rest ratio begun. It wasn’t necessarily the quality of the volleyball depending on your fitness level. being played, which was fantastic as well, but the fact Beginner level = 40 sec on/20 sec recovery and that we had so many participants from many different advanced = 50 sec on/10 sec recovery. It’s five exercises schools. that you will rotate through like a circuit 4-5 times (only In the past we have had more entries in the primary 20-25mins out of your day!). Feel free to add a weight school volleyball compared to the secondary and if you have any at home or a heavy book if you are intermediate schools whereas this term was different wanting to add a little extra to the squat or the step ups. and we had great numbers in secondary and There are progressions and regressions for each intermediate volleyball. exercise. Wednesday afternoons at Jubilee Stadium saw nine BEGINNER ADVANCED intermediate teams entered from six different schools, two of which hadn’t entered before. We also had 20 secondary school teams entered from seven schools, including teams from the regions with Ruapehu College, Taihape Area School and Rangitikei College participating. Our primary school grade was much quieter this term, Ex 1: Body weight squat with only 14 teams entering. All teams had a great time Ex 1: Jump squat playing and have grown in confidence over the course of the four weeks the league was run for. It was unfortunate that we had to cancel the final two weeks of the league due to the Covid-19 situation but with plenty of precautions put in place, hopefully we will be back playing school volleyball in term 4 and Ex 2: Alternating Reverse welcoming back all of the participants from term 1. Lunge Ex 2: Jumping alternate lunges

Ex 3: Pushups on knees Ex 3: Push ups

TRIATHLON SERIES Earlier this year Tawhero School students took part in a Mini Triathlon Series held at Whanganui City College. The weather was amazing for the three events, as were all the students involved. The Year 5 & 6 tamariki Ex 4: Step ups were supported by Whanganui City College rangatahi who encouraged them as they completed the course, Ex 4: Step ups showing resilience & pride in their performance. The leadership skills these rangatahi showed was fantastic. Many thanks to Whanganui City College, Tawhero School & Let’s Go Ex 5: Shoulder taps Bikes for a very successful series. Ex 5: Shoulder taps TIPS FOR COACHES Tip 5: Register Adesanya was also supplementing the supply of PPE for members of your community who may need to hear a Register for an online course. There are many sites (for Auckland and the Nigerian city of Lagos, where he was cheery voice or need a helping hand. DURING LOCKDOWN example Coursera) offering free and self-paced courses born. We all know Covid-19 is having an enormous impact on a huge range of subjects, including coaching-related He won the Sportsperson of the Year at our very own on our lives right now. Work and social routines are subjects (e.g. Sport Psychology) for different levels of Ray White Whanganui Sports Awards last year and significantly disrupted and sporting activity across the experience. Here are a few places to start looking: made history in February, becoming the first combat country, from community sport to high performance www.coursera.org sports athlete to win a prize at New Zealand's annual sport, has come to a halt. Halberg Sports Awards. FIND WAYS TO KEEP LEARNING www.futurelearn.com Staying curious and engaging with the world around you This isolating period is likely to be challenging for is a great way to uplift your wellbeing. Pick a question everyone, and it will challenge us to be inventive with www.udemy.com you’ve always wondered about and take some time how we stay physically active. Tip 6: Relax IDEAS FOR OUR WELLBEING to look it up. Call your parents or grandparents and Of course, for coaches and participants, there is nothing Take some time to relax and be inspired by watching During this time we need to look after our own ask them questions about life when more frustrating than not being able to do what you a great movie on coaching. Or watch a short, funny wellbeing and the wellbeing of our whānau and they were growing up. Research love. So, here are some tips on how coaches can make coaching video. Laughter, as they say, is the best community as we get through this – together. your whakapapa or family tree. use of this unexpected break in sport. medicine. Here are some practical ideas from the Mental Health Look up stories, myths and Tip 1: Read Foundation. legends from different cultures. Discover the name of the iwi, For a start, FIND WAYS TO CONNECT hapu, maunga and awa of the there are ISRAEL HELPS WHANGANUI Connecting with others is so important place you live. Download an app dozens of The reigning New Zealand for our wellbeing and helps to make like Duolingo and start learning a new great books sportsman of the year, Israel us feel safer, less stressed and less language. Ask your tamariki/kids to teach on coaching Adesanya, is reaching into his anxious. We can support each other to you something they learned at school. and coaches. pocket to help in the country's get through this. You can fight against Covid-19. Some ideas to connect include: STICK TO YOUR ROUTINE find a few here. Or, find a scientific article on an area writing emails that share a (OR START A NEW ONE) The mixed martial arts star has of coaching that interests you. There are a number to favourite memory, playing video paid for 10,000 masks and 1000 Routines sound dull, but they’re good for our mental search through at Science for Sport. games with mates, playing online face shields to be supplied to the health. Try to go to sleep and wake up at Tip 2: Reflect scrabble or other board games, joining or starting a Whanganui District Health Board. the same time, eat at regular times, Reflection is a key piece in the ‘how do I keep getting virtual book club, sharing a favourite karakia or waiata shower, change your clothes, have Whanganui DHB chief executive better’ puzzle. So, take the opportunity to reflect on with your friends on social media, having video catch- regular e-meetings with colleagues or Russell Simpson said he was your coaching and identify an aspect of coaching you ups with workmates, calling friends and whānau who virtual coffee dates with friends, do your humbled by Adesanya's donation of the personal would like to improve, and why. Or perhaps consider are in self-isolation and reaching out to neighbours to chores. This will help you to manage protective equipment (PPE), which had a value of how you would like to be coaching in five years. Read ensure everyone has what they need to get through. your days and adjust several thousand dollars. one coach’s story about how reflective practice helped FIND WAYS TO TAKE NOTICE when life starts to go "The DHB is extremely grateful that Israel has DHB staff back to normal. them here. Notice the beauty in the world and the healthcare community in his thoughts as we Tip 3: Connect around your home. Take time fight against Covid-19. EXPLORE DIFFERENT WAYS TO RELAX to feel the sun on your skin, Connect with your club and team. Setup a Facebook Many of us haven’t stretched our ‘relaxation muscles’ "On behalf of all of the staff at Whanganui DHB we breathe in fresh air whenever page or Whatsapp group if you haven’t already and in far too long. It might take a bit of trial and error to thank him for his generous donation." you can, make a list of what check in regularly to give each other a boost. You could find what works for you. Maybe it’s lighting a scented you’re grateful for, take the run a remote training or workout session, and doing There was also a personal element to the donation for candle, switching off with a good book, playing a video time to thank someone for a photo competition is another good idea. Try to be Adesanya, the middleweight division champion of the game, having a silent disco, talking to a mate, watching how they make you feel, do creative and stay connected with your team. world's biggest mixed martial arts organisation, the UFC. ASMR videos online, getting creative a mindfulness exercise on YouTube, watch the plants and making some art, try mindful Tip 4: Ring The Auckland-based fighter and his family immigrated in your home or outside your window growing and from Nigeria to New Zealand when he was a teenager, colouring, journaling or watching Call or Skype another coach you know, perhaps one at changing with each passing day. making Whanganui their home. movies. We all your own club or school, and have a conversation about FIND WAYS TO GIVE need to find coaching. Ask questions of each other like: Why do you His family still live there and his mother Tai is a nurse in Give compliments, think about a skill you have you things that help coach? What has coaching taught you? What energises the emergency department at Whanganui Hospital. could share with your whānau/flatmates/friends, share us switch off and you about coaching? Share some tools or resources. "I can't do it for the whole world, but I can help the a favourite recipe, let people know you’re there to help reenergise our And maybe even discuss what collaboration might communities I know - the places that I have been a part (and tell them what help you can offer – e.g. can you minds and bodies. look like. For a brilliant talk by Ken Blanchard (the ‘One of," the 30-year-old said. pick up food for a neighbour when you go shopping? minute manager’ guy) on the power of collaboration Can you help your friends’ kids with their English (one of Sport NZ’s four core principles of coaching) go "It's a small way of helping, but a small thing can go a homework via Skype?). Check in on neighbours and here. long way." SECONDARY SCHOOL EVENTS Term one started with a busy schedule of LOCKDOWN events for our secondary schools. On the 28th February HOUSE we held the Life Saving Champs at the Splash Centre. A huge thank you to Marie Baker for once CLEAN OUT? again organising and running the event and the Splash Centre for the use of the pool for the 14 teams that entered. IF YOU DISCOVER YOU The Whanganui Secondary School Swimming Champs were held that same afternoon with 111 students HAVE UNUSED registered from eight schools. We would like to say a big thank you to Anita Lower for assisting us with loading SPORTS GEAR, PLEASE the registrations and inputting the results throughout the day. Lynne Lower was once again the voice of the SEND IT OUR WAY! event as our announcer. Volunteers are an essential part of running successful and safe events, the following people took time out from their busy lives to help us to run the 2020 Swimming Champs event: Jackie and Jaimee Schimanski, Mariana Dowman, Marie Baker, Toddy Sollitt, Ross and Dawn Duncum, Phil Sedcole, Jane Lowe, Leigha Stormont and the volunteers from each of the participating secondary schools. We could not run our events without these volunteers who give up their WE WILL PICK IT UP(AFTER time to help us, LOCKDOWN) AND DONATE TO we truly appreciate what you do for your community and Sport Whanganui. LOCAL TAMARIKI IN NEED! Follow this link to view the Life Saving and Swimming results. TO DONATE, EMAIL ROSS KINNERLEY: [email protected]