#communitysport blog - Simon Harding, Thundercat Racing Wales

Our latest Community Sport blog is written by Simon Harding, aged 35, from Neyland in Pembrokeshire, who races powerboats as part of the UK Thundercat Series and has been selected to represent Great Britain at the World Championships in Norway in August. Here, he tells us how he got into this very different sport.

UK Thundercat Series racer - Simon Harding

When I left school I worked in Newmarket backing and breaking race horses for Sheikh Mohammed. But after three years I had an accident when a two year-old colt fell back, rolled over on me and broke my pelvis in three places.

I came back to Pembrokeshire and as part of the healing process I started to do some water sports.
I did kayaking and surfing to build some strength in my lower body and got into it that much I managed to get on a course with Pembrokeshire County Council and Waterford Council in Ireland to promote water sports. I became an instructor, got a good few qualifications, and worked for Pembrokeshire water sports for six years and then as a freelance instructor.

I did a lot of work for a very good friend called Ceri Davies, who owns Swansea Water Sports, who got me into power boating and jet skiing. We did demos at the south and north Wales boats shows and I got my first blast in a thundercat and loved every minute. It was a love at first throttle turn!

I did this for few years and bought my first cat. After a year I bought a brand new one and began racing last year. I had a great season and the people involved are so great - if anyone has any problems with their boat or needs anything then everyone helps out. It’s something I really want to be involved in.

I had a very mixed year with some great results but then some very bad luck as well with two weekends with engine problems. This year is looking to be a great season with a new co-pilot in Tom Hamilton, who is a natural in the boat with his experience in racing yachts. We’ve been preparing the boat together.
We are both looking forward to going to the World Championships in Grimsted in Norway in August. We are only the second Welsh boat to ever to make it to the GB team so great news for Welsh sport.
We are also the first boat in the UK championships to become carbon neutral. We are racing but want to think of the environment as well.

When I was young it was just horses and more horses. Some of my friends were into water sports like waterskiing and kayaking and used to do bits in the summer.

I did some work for the Princes Trust as an instructor and found there are so many positive effects on young people when you get them out on the water. If it was out in a boat or kayaking or coasteering or surfing, you just don't know if you are introducing the next World champion of the sport to the water.

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This blog was written in conjunction with the launch of a strategy for Community Sport in Wales.  If you’d like your say, get involved in the debate on twitter – using the hashtag #communitysport and you can mention us @sport_wales

blog #chwaraeoncymunedol - Gary Lewis, Urdd Gobaith Cymru

Mae ein blog diweddaraf am Chwaraeon Cymunedol yn dod gan Gary Lewis, Cyfarwyddwr Chwaraeon Urdd Gobaith Cymru. Mae Adran Chwaraeon yr Urdd yn cyflwyno ystod o glybiau a gweithgareddau chwaraeon yn wythnosol drwy gydol y flwyddyn er mwyn annog plant a phobl ifanc ar hyd a lled Cymru i gael hwyl, cystadlu a pherfformio drwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg, neu fel dysgwyr Cymraeg.   

Prif ffocws yr adran a’i staff yw gweithio gyda chymunedau ar hyd a lled Cymru, gan weithio ar bob lefel, o lawr gwlad i bartneriaethau ag Ysgolion Cynradd ac Uwchradd a hefyd datblygu strwythurau cymunedol er mwyn sicrhau bod plant a phobl ifanc ar hyd a lled Cymru’n cael digon o gyfle i gymryd rhan mewn pecyn amrywiol a chynhwysfawr o weithgareddau cysylltiedig â chwaraeon. 
  
Cyfranogiad yw prif nod Adran Chwaraeon yr Urdd – cael merched a bechgyn ifanc i fod yn egnïol a’u denu at chwaraeon a rhoi diddordebau iddyn nhw y tu allan i’r ysgol. Un elfen sylfaenol o’n gwaith ni yw’r newid hwnnw o gymryd rhan ar gae chwarae’r ysgol i gymryd rhan yn y gymuned. Mae’n hanfodol bod plant a phobl ifanc yn teimlo’n berchen ar eu gweithgareddau er mwyn iddyn nhw deimlo’n rhan o’r clwb cymunedol maen nhw’n ei fynychu ac, yn bwysicach na dim, er mwyn eu cael i gymryd rhan yn egnïol wythnos ar ôl wythnos.

Mae nifer fawr o’n clybiau ni’n cael eu cynnal nawr gan bobl ifanc sydd wedi cymryd rhan yn ystod y 10-15 mlynedd diwethaf. Maen nhw’n cael profiad aruthrol yn cynnal y sesiynau hyn ac mae eu gweld yn cyflwyno’r sesiynau yn ffantastig. Maen nhw’n esiampl ragorol i’r genhedlaeth iau.

Y broses yw ein bod ni’n cyflwyno sesiynau blasu mewn ysgolion i ddechrau, i greu diddordeb yn y gweithgareddau rydyn ni’n eu cynnig yn y gymuned. Rydyn ni’n cyflwyno’r rhain mewn partneriaeth â Champau’r Ddraig, 5x60 a hefyd Adrannau Chwaraeon Awdurdodau Lleol ac yna’n darparu llwybr cynnydd i’n strwythur cymunedol.
         
Un esiampl dda o’r gwaith rydyn ni’n ei gyflwyno yw ein gweithgarwch ni yng Ngwent ar hyn o bryd.

Dim ond un ysgol gyfun (cyfrwng Cymraeg) sydd yng Ngwent gyfan ar hyn o bryd, ond rydyn ni’n gweithio ar draws tair sir yn rhanbarth Gwent – Casnewydd, Blaenau Gwent a hefyd Sir Fynwy – ac rydyn ni’yn gwneud yn siŵr ein bod ni’n cyfeirio disgyblion o Ysgol Gyfun Gwynllyw i weithio fel gwirfoddolwyr ym mhob ardal yng Ngwent . Rydyn ni’n dileu’r ffiniau er mwyn gwneud yn siŵr bod pobl yn cael cymryd rhan ble maen nhw’n byw.

Chwaraeon cymunedol yw’r man cychwyn – dyna darddiad chwaraeon. Os edrychwch chi’n gyffredinol ar bethau, mae gan unrhyw gamp sy’n llwyddiannus strwythur chwaraeon mawr ar lawr gwlad. Y cyfle cyntaf i bobl ifanc gymryd rhan mewn chwaraeon yw yn y gymuned. Mae’n gyfrwng mor bwysig i gael plant i fod yn egnïol y tu allan i amgylchedd yr ysgol.
                                                    
Os oes gennych chi strwythur chwaraeon cymunedol cryf, mae’n cynnig cyfle i blant a phobl ifanc gymryd rhan o oedran ifanc. Yn bwysicach na hynny, os yw’r llwybr hwnnw wedi’i gysylltu â Chorff Rheoli Cenedlaethol, a chlybiau cymunedol eraill, yna mae gennych chi lwybrau cynnydd i fynd â phlant mor bell ag y maent yn dymuno.

Daw’r rhan fwyaf o’n llwyddiannau ni o adeiladu sylfaen gref o oedran ifanc. Yr unig ffordd i wneud hynny yw drwy ddechrau ar y lefel sylfaen; dysgu sgiliau sylfaenol i blant ar gyfer chwaraeon, i roi cychwyn da iddyn nhw ar gyfer pa gamp bynnag maen nhw eisiau cymryd rhan ynddi wrth iddyn nhw ddatblygu a thyfu. Er enghraifft, byddwn ni nawr yn sefydlu ein datblygiad cymunedol yng Nghyfnod Allweddol 1, ble byddwn yn dysgu i’n plant ni i gyd y sgiliau SYLFAENOL y mae arnyn nhw eu hangen er mwyn datblygu a chymryd rhan mewn chwaraeon. Mae gan yr Urdd lwybr clir i bob camp gymunedol ac yna llwybr cystadlu o lefel leol i Gemau Cymru.

Mae’n bwysig rhoi cyfle i blant ddatblygu eu sgiliau iaith y tu allan i amgylchedd yr ysgol a’u datblygu drwy chwaraeon. Rydyn ni wedi gweld bod chwaraeon yn gyfrwng ffantastig ar gyfer hyn, nid yn unig ar gyfer datblygu’r iaith ond hefyd i ddatblygu chwaraeon cymunedol a datblygu plant ifanc a’u cadw nhw’n egnïol. Rydyn ni’n defnyddio model syml; rydyn ni’n datblygu hyfforddwyr, yn dod o hyd i bobl ifanc i weithio gyda hwy ac yna’n creu gweithgareddau hwyliog a chynaliadwy. Mae’n fodel syml sy’n gweithio’n ffantastig ac mae’r iaith yn elfen allweddol o’r llwyddiant hwn.   
                                            
Mae’n rhoi cyfle i blant fwynhau gweithgareddau cymunedol lleol gan wneud yn siŵr bod yr hyn a gynigir o safon uchel, gydag arweinwyr a gwirfoddolwyr o safon uchel, a gefnogir yn dda iawn, ac sy’n cyflawni i ni. Os yw’r sylfaen yn iawn, yna mae pob math o bethau’n bosib yn fy marn i, i Gymru ac wrth ddatblygu sêr chwaraeon y dyfodol.   
     
Ysgrifennwyd y blog hwn i gyd-fynd â lansiad strategaeth ar gyfer Chwaraeon Cymunedol yng Nghymru. Os hoffech chi ddweud eich barn, byddwch yn rhan o’r drafodaeth ar twitter – gan ddefnyddio’r hashtag #communitysport a gallwch ein crybwyll ni ar @sport_wales

#communitysport blog – Gary Lewis, Urdd Gobaith Cymru

Our latest Community Sport blog is written by Gary Lewis, Sports Director of Urdd Gobaith Cymru. The Urdd Sports Department delivers a range of clubs and sports activities on a weekly basis throughout the year to encourage children and young people across Wales to have fun, compete and perform through the medium of Welsh or as Welsh learners.

The department and it’s staff‘s main focus is to engage with communities across Wales working at all levels from grassroots, to Junior and Secondary Schools partneships and also developing community structures in order to ensure that children and young people across Wales have plenty of opportunity to participate in a varied and comprenensive package of sport related activities.

Participation is the Urdd Sports Department's main objective – getting young girls and boys active and getting them into sport and giving them interests outside of the school. A fundemental part of our work is that transition from school playground into the community. It’s vital that children and Young people have ownership of their activities in order for them to feel part of the community club which they attend and most importantly to get them actively involved week in week out.

A large number of our clubs are  now  being run by young people who  have participated in clubs over the past 10-15 years. They gain tremendous experience in running these sessions and seeing them actually delivering the sessions is fantastic. They are great role models to the younger generation.

The Process is that we initially deliver  taster sessions in schools, to create an interest for what activities  we’re offering in the community. We deliver this in partnerhip with Dragon Sport, 5x60, as well as Local Authority Sports departments and then provide an exit route into our community structure.

A good example of the work that we deliver is the work that we’re doing in Gwent at the moment.

Currenty there is only one (Welsh language) comprehensive school covering the whole of Gwent but we are working across three counties in Gwent – Newport, Blaenau Gwent and also Monmouthshire – and we’re making sure that we signpost pupils from Ysgol Gyfun Gwynllyw to work as volunteers to all areas of Gwent. We’re taking the boundaries away to make sure that people can  take part wherever they live. 

Community sport is where it all starts – that is the root of sport. I think if you look generally across the board any sport that is succesful have got a big, strong structure at grassroots level. The first opportunity for young people to play a sport is within the community. It’s such an important vehicle to get children active outside of the school environment.

If you’ve got a strong community sport structure it gives children and young people the opportunity to participate from a young age. Most importantly if you’ve got that pathway linked in to National Governing Bodies, and other  community clubs, then you’ve got exit routes to take children as far as they want to go.

Most of our success comes from building a strong foundation at a young age. The only way you can do this  is to start at the foundation level; giving children fundamental basic skills for sports that gives them a really good start in whatever sport  they want to particpate in as they develop and grow. For instance, we will now start  our community development at Key Stage 1, where we will give all our children the BASIC skills needed to develop and play sport. The Urdd have a clear pathway for all community sports and a competition pathway from the local level to Gemau Cymru.

It’s important to give children the opportunity to develop their language skills outside the school environment and to develop it through sport. We’ve found through sport, by the numbers that have participated, it’s been a fantastic vehicle. Not only for developing the language but for developing community sport and developing young children and keeping them active. It’s a simple model that we use; we develop coaches, we find young people to work with and then create fun, sustainable activities. It’s a simple model that works fantastically well and the language is a key element to this success product.

It’s just giving children the opportunity to access local community activites and to make sure that what is on offer is of a high quality, with high quality leaders and volunteers, who are being supported really well and are delivering it for us. I think if that foundation is right the world is our oyster for Wales and for developing future stars.

This blog was written in conjunction with the launch of a strategy for Community Sport in Wales.  If you’d like your say, get involved in the debate on twitter – using the hashtag #communitysport and you can mention us @sport_wales

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Hebatnya album ini menjadi nomor 1 d Inggris, Australia dan sebagian Eropa serta menempati peringkat ke 9 daftar chart Billboard 200 di negara Amerika Serikat. Album ini mendapat penghargaan Platinum Eropa karena menjual 1 juta kopi di benua Eropa, kemudian tampil live di Abbey Road Studios untuk Live From Abbey Road.

Pada tanggal 25 September 2008, Matthew Bellamy, Dominic Howard dan Chris Wolstenholme menerima gelar Honorary Doctorate of Arts dari Universitas Plymounth karena kontribusi mereka yang sangat besar dalam pengembangan musik dunia yang bisa dibilang sangatlah pesat.

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Go Green dan Global Warming Free HD Wallpaper

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