NATIONALS 2006

Finally after 26 years Nationals was held back in Christchurch. 

 The Christchurch committee did a great job of organizing the Championships. It began with Life memberships being awarded to 2 long serving artistic volunteers Jim Taylor & Joan Alexander and Graeme Campbell from speed. All of whom have spent many years and much of their personal timein the roller skating world.

There were a few programme changes this year with artistic training every second day for the events that day & the next, and the introduction of more 'block' like programmes so there was less switching backwards & forwards between artistic & speed.
                                      

Unfortunately I don't know how much outside interest we got from the rest of the sports centre, though it is definitely along the track we need to promote our sport to the public. Almost everyone felt the cold of the stadium that was needed to keep the skating floor in the best possible condition and commented in their surveys (Roger would appreciate if you could send these back if you didn't hand them in at the champs). It certainly isn't the grippiest floor I've skated on, but even when the rain affected the humidity and the floor deteriorated it wasn't the slipperiest either.

 
Despite that the championships saw some brilliant performances and personal bests from the skaters. And worth a mention is the clean sweep from Manawatu for the points trophies for every single discipline.

                                  

We are beginning to amalgamate the photo & video pages, however this will mean the pages will take a little longer to get online. Please keep checking back until all the days are loaded. 
When you hover your mouse over a picture & it turns to a hand click on the picture to bring up a video of that event.
If you are unable to open the video's due to a codec error follow the below instructions:

1 - Right click to download the video to your desktop 
2 - While your are connected to the internet open the video from your desktop 
3 - Windows Media Player should ask if you want to (or may automatically) update the codec
4 - This should only take a few minutes to download and all the videos should play
 

DOWNLOAD TIPS FROM OUR FREQUENT VIEWERS
* Open all the pages (each as a new page) & go away & make yourself a cup of coffee while the pictures download. 
* Find someone who has a broadband connection & use their computer.
* If you're just looking to find picture of you, get the programme out & see what day you skated.
 * If not all the photo's load, refreshing the page should bring them all up.

 
                                                                    
 


 


 

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