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Strong, fast, male and a bit crazy ? Want the chance to become an olympian ?

Are you strong, fast and a bit crazy ? Do you want the chance to become an olympian ? If so, then the sport of bobsleigh is after you ?

Labelled 'formula one on ice', the sport of bobsleigh requires athletes to explode from the starting block and push the sled up to 50m along an ice track before deftly leaping into the sled and tucking and then sliding at up to 140km/hr down a 1.6km icy track.

After having equalled Australia's best ever result of 22nd in the men's 2-man bobsleigh at the recent Winter Olympics in Torino, the team is now recruiting a couple of further athletes with a view to Vancouver 2010. No experience is necessary as successful athletes will be put through intensive testing, training and development.

So if you're up for adrenaline, speed and fun as well as a lot of hard work along the way, and you think you've got what it takes (considering the below), then come along to our testing and recruitment day. Perhaps this is your opportunity to take you all the way to qualifying for the Winter Olympics this time next year !

The physical characteristics we look for in a crewman are high explosive output and power, very fast leg speed as well as plenty of mass. The ideal model would be an athlete who meets many of the following:

90Kg + body mass
30m sprint in under 3.90 seconds
power cleans 120Kg +
squats 180Kg +
bench press 120Kg +
standing long jump 2.80m +
standing vertical jump 70cm +
Testing will be held on Saturday March 7th at 4pm. Details are as follows:

Sydney Academy of Sport
Wakehurst Parkway
Narrabeen 2101

http://www.dsr.nsw.gov.au/sydneyacademy/sport.asp

4pm - meet outside the athletic track.

We will be doing some sprint tests, max bench press, max squat, vertical and standing jump, and some sled push tests

For more information on the sport visit www.bobsleigh.com

For more information on the testing day contact Duncan Harvey (duncan.harvey@nab.com.au, 0411 580 309) or Jeremy Rolleston (jeremy.rolleston@gsjbw.com, 0402 149 892)

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QWA League Round 1 Schedule with PB's

Here is the entry list and competition schedule with pbs for the QWA League & Masters league Round 1 to be held at Toowoomba on Saturday 14^th February 2009

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2009 League

2009 League Entry

Here is your division for 2009 league-classification-2009
Here are the 2009-league-rules and the league-entry-form
which must be returned to the QWA WITH THE PAYMENT by Friday 30th January.

PB's

Congratulations to Josh Wu with a PB power snatch of 22kg and PB Power Clean and Jerk of 25Kg and PB Clean of 27Kg - not bad considering his squat PB is 20Kg !

Also Troy has started the year with PB's in the Squat and Clean

Misc

Final 2008 Records and Rankings on the QWA Website

Happy Birthday to Ben Turner who is due to return to training on Mon along
with Josh Brady on Tues - i will believe that when i see it :)

Training will be at the normal time of 4.45 on Monday.

Welcome Back to Jason Oliveri who has been away Bobsleighing for Australia

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Training Starts this Monday

Training starts this Monday 5th January.
I will be coaching on Mon, Tues, Wed and Fri Evening's from 4.45pm till 7.30pm
( I have cut out Thurs as people that train 3 times a week prefer Mon, Wed and Fri - but I will see how that pans out)

NEWS
Congratulations to Troy who is now the father of a baby girl !
Ben is off to the USA on the 7th and back on the 19th

NEW ATHLETES
Mitch Banaba will train with us on Tues and Fri
Greg Botha who used to train before he went to Uni is now back in training

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