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Blind Sports NSW and Disabled Wintersport Australia joined forces to host the first Winter Sports Camp in Jindabyne for Blind Sports NSW members aged 12 and up. The camp took place from Friday 5th - Sunday 7th July with campers having the opportunity to try skiing or snowboarding. Australian Paralympic skier and Blind Sports NSW Board Member, Melissa Perrine, accompanied the campers over the weekend and was thrilled to see them gain confidence and learn new skills out on the snow. “All in all, it was completely awesome to see these six be introduced to a com-pletely foreign environment for the first time, asked to trust sighted guides that they had never met whilst learning a new skill, and not only doing so, but succeeding with such enthusiasm,” Mel said. “I honestly can't wait until next camp.”
The campers were also lucky enough to be joined by Paralympians Victoria Pendergast and Pat-rick Jensen who gave up their time to offer support and encouragement to the campers over the weekend.
Blind Sports NSW would like to thank guides, volunteers and campers for
their involvement and we look for-ward to hosting more snow camps in the future!
Blind Sports NSW & Disabled Wintersport
Australia Host First Winter Sports Camp
Edited by Murray Elbourn
July 2019 edition of
THE VISION BULLETIN Blind Sports NSW
Inside this issue:
Winter Camp 1
Blind Tennis 2
Blind Cricket 2
Goalball YWC 3
Blind Surfing 3
Rock Climbing 4
Aussie Belles 5
Contact Us 6
Sponsors 6
After a successful National Cricket Inclusion Championships where NSW retained the National Cup defeat-ing South Australia in Geelong, VIC this January, representatives from that team were invited to participate at the 1st Australian Blind Cricket Training Camp of 2019. Represented were the following players: Lindsay Heaven, Shaun Fitzpatrick, Oscar Stubbs, Sean Brown, Ben Felton, Vaugh Rolls, Nathan Letts with coach Jason Stubbs. The Australian Squad played the QLD Bulls mainstream state team and defeated them in a T20 game, highlighting some of the young talent that currently exists in Australian Blind Cricket. This squad will make up the players who will be selected for the next World Cup and Ashes series to come in the future. If you would like to know more about how you can start playing Blind and Vision Impaired cricket in NSW,
please contact Jason Stubbs by phone on 0402227540 or via email at [email protected]
Blind Cricket National Training Camp
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International Blind Tennis Association Tournament
Spain hosted the 2019 IBTA World Tournament which featured a team from Australia pictured in this section, the team was very successful with Ricky Segura winning the B4 category and Mark Ashik finishing 3
rd in the B2 category. This is off the back of an outstanding program in
Victoria that has really enabled people with low vision and blindness to begin playing tennis both socially and competitively around Australia.
Tennis NSW are about to launch an inclusion program for people with low vision and blind-
ness at Royal Rehab in Ryde of a Sunday with new Tennis Australia inclusion coach Steve.
If you want to know more about our Tennis program go to our Facebook page which can be
accessed from www.blindsportsnsw.com.au and let us know that you want to attend our
sessions at Ryde starting in late July.
Blind Sports NSW is on the search for those who
want to volunteer their time at the IBSA Youth World
Championships in Penrith.
The competition takes place at the Penrith Valley Re-
gionalSports Centre from August 2-9 and there will be
volunteer opportunities across the board.
Students are invited to come as a class to spectate
for $2 Gold Coin donation.
Register to volunteer or have your school spectate by
clicking the link below and filling in the form.
https://www.goalball.com.au/2019-ibsa-youth-world-
championships/
12 International Teams will compete at this event and
there are 3 sessions a day you can attend:
9am to 11:30am, 11:30am to 2pm or 2:30pm to 5pm
A message from Matt Formsten:
I’m looking to promote Adaptive Surfing to the Blind community and hoping you can help. There is a massive opportunity to compete on the world stage here for any-one who is keen. Australian Nationals are on the Gold Coast on 18th August. Would love to see a whole bunch of new people there. We desperately need women. Currently we have no Women competing so any female who turned up would get an instant spot on the Aussie team .for World Champs. If you are interested in joining Matt , simply send him an email at [email protected] There is also the Bali Adaptive Pro coming up on 1-3
September and we need Aussie’s to compete..
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Matt Formston: Blind Surfing
Calling All Volunteers and Spectators:
2019 IBSA Goalball Youth World Championships
Penrith Valley Regional Sports Centre
I’m so excited to invite anyone blind or vision impaired who’s looking for some adventure to join my-self & the crew from Sydney Indoor Climbing Gym (Villawood) for an amazing morning of new chal-lenges & unbelievable fun where, you will get the chance to try the latest fitness craze of “Indoor Rock Climbing” in a supportive environment.
EVER WANTED TO CLIMB WALLS?
WELL, HERE’S YOUR CHANCE!
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WHERE Unit 5, 850 Woodville Road, Villawood NSW 2163 WHEN Saturday 27
th July 2019
TIME 10:00am – 1:00pm
COST $20 per climber (harness & climbing shoes included) $16 per climber (harness included) There is no fee for belayers who will not be climbing
(harness provided) Climbing fees are payable on the day
WHAT’S INCLUDED
Harness hire Safety briefing Approximately 2.5 hours of climbing Support climbing buddies / Belayers
REFRESHMENTS / LUNCH
Refreshments can be purchased from the gym at an additional cost
Participants are invited to a group lunch after the climb-ing session at “The Woods Pantry” which is located next door to the gym
TRANSPORT Villawood train station is a 5-minute walk from the
climbing gym Busses also run along Woodville Road Someone will be available to meet climbers at Villa-
wood station at 9:45am to support travel to the climbing gym
WHAT TO WEAR
Light sporty clothing i.e. shorts, tights or loose pants – no skirts or jeans
Enclosed shoes or joggers – no thongs, sandals or heels
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
All participants are required to complete & sign a waiv-er
All participants under 18 are required to have the waiv-er signed by a parent or guardian
Limited supervision is available for children R.S.V.P’s
As we are limited to a maximum of 15 climbers, RSVP’s are essential. To RSVP and register, please contact Renée Godress on 0414 449 299 by no later than 5pm on Friday 20th July 2019
We’d love for you to come & “hang” with us!
NSW would like to congratulate Brodie Smith, Tyan Taylor and assistant coach Simon Smith for their high achievements. The team will now look forward to their regional qualification event in Chiba, Japan this December.
Aussie Belles finish TOP 4 at IBSA World Games
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If you want to play Goalball in NSW please email Murray at [email protected] or visit the NSW
Goalball Website at www.goalball.com.au
In their quarter final they played Canada who finished 4
th at the 2018 IBSA Goalball World
Championships in Sweden. Canada defeat-ed Australia at the 2015 IBSA World Games in their Bronze Medal play off so Australia was hoping to turn the tables on Canada. Canada went up 1-0 however the Aussie Belles stormed back and played some amaz-ing defence to defeat Canada 5-1 and ad-vance to the semi-finals. In the Semi Final they played China who they lost to in pool play and who were the eventual winners of the tournament going undefeated through the entire event. Austral-ia kept fighting but eventually lost 4-8. They then played Israel in the Bronze Medal game however Lihi Ben David who was named player of the Tournament struck with early goals and Australia didn’t rebound losing 2-12 to finish 4
th at the event.
Peter Corr and Simon Smith led our Aussie Belles Women’s Goalball team to Fort Wayne, Indiana to compete for a place in the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games through this qualification event at IBSA World Games. Moving through their pool of 7 teams Australia had wins over Great Britain, South Korea, Germany and Spain to finish 3
rd in their pool
with losses to China and Israel.
CONTACT US & Affiliated Blind Sports:
Blind Sports NSW: Murray: 0427186734 / Sophie: 0414767724
Email: [email protected]
Address: PO Box W292, Parramatta NSW 2150
Website: www.blindsportsnsw.com.au
NSW Blind Golf: Graham: 0412992418 (sighted caddies needed)
Blind Cricket NSW: Jason: 0402227540 / Mark: 0418889188
NSW Goalball: Liza 0287361243 / 0468760249 - www.goalball.com.au
THE VISION BULLETIN, July 2019 Edition - Edited by Murray Elbourn
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