Mid winter Funday

With a Good frost and the Sun rushing it's way across the sky
The Big Rock Boardriders kicked it's first
Matariki midwinter comp off.
With a good turnout
and Three divisions featuring;
Shortboard , Longboard and Uglyboard's.
Some sweet 2-3 ft waves peeled through during the day
and fun was had by all both in the surf and judging.

Above, Mr Munro, and Timmy

Results;
Ugly Board
First: Chris Lamb riding the single fin magic board!
Second: Tom Bracegirdle on the dunga thruster
Third: Jono Pascoe on the funky green twin fin frog fish kneeboard

Above Chris Lamb on the magic board.

Long Board
First: Jay Tzu
Second: Jimi Crooks
Third: Caitlin de Bruyn
Fourth: Sean O'Neil

Above Jimmy in the longboard final.

Short Board
First: Jimi Crooks
Second: Tom Bracegirdle
Third: Andy Sutherland
Fourth: Chris Lamb

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The Rules/ Constitution

Their will be some slight changes with regard to the financial year, which is in bold, if you would like to see anything added or modified, please let us know!

Rules of the Big Rock Boardriders club

Name

1) The Name of the club shall be “Big Rock Boardriders Club”.

Interpretation

2) In these rules, unless a contrary intention applies “Club” means the “Big Rock Boardriders Club”. “Officers” means the officers appointed under Rule 19 of these Rules: “Year” means the financial year as referred to in Rule 28: “Special Resolution” means a resolution passed by a three quarters (3/4) majority of those present and voting at a General Meeting.

Objectives

3)

a) To foster surfing in Otago in all its various forms.

b) To hold surfing contests including inter-club contests.

c) To encourage and support family involvement in surfing, its lifestyle, culture and values.

d) To provide a forum for encouraging the interaction between surfers of all ages.

e) To make representations to Government Departments, Local Bodies, including the Dunedin City Council and Regional Bodies, including Environment New Zealand, in order to sustain and enhance surfing venues and events.

f) To liaise, and act in conjunction with the South Island Surfing Association, fellow South Island surfing clubs and Surfing New Zealand Incorporated.

g) To make submission to the Dunedin City Council and/or other Local Government, Central Government bodies and/or any other regulatory or administrative bodies on general environmental issues. To bring appeals to the Environment Court and/or the High Court on matters and issues affecting the environment and in particular (but without limitation) environmental issues concerning water quality, discharges of effluent and contaminants into water bodies (and in particular rivers, estuarine and oceanic waters) and the preservation, safeguarding and enhancement of surfing breaks including associated shorelines, and access to the surfing breaks.

h) To bring general civil actions in any judicial or quasi judicial jurisdiction, relevant to the protection, preservation, safeguarding and enhancement of surfing breaks and access to them including civil actions to prevent the despoliation of coastal areas and oceanic water and to safeguard the health of members and their families in relation to surfing.

i) To generally adopt, follow and be guided by the precepts and principles of the Surfrider Foundation.

j) To develop facilities for attaining the objectives of the club.

k) To seek funding both in relation to the Clubs surfing focus and in relation to environmental issues that the Club decided to be involved in.

l) To affiliate with and obtain membership of the Surf Rider Foundation.

m) To lobby for political support regarding the Clubs objectives.

Membership

4) The Club shall consist of those persons now members and such other persons as shall from time to time be admitted according to the Rules in force at the time.

There shall be three classes of membership:

a) Adult membership

b) Student membership

c) Family membership

Membership classification

5)

a) Adult Members shall be those who are 18 years of age or over at the 1^st of January whom are working or receiving a benefit

b) Student Members shall be those who are under 18 years at the 1^st January or studying full time at a tertiary institute.

c) Family membership shall be more than one individual living at the same address (two votes only, applicable).

6) Every application for membership shall be on the prescribed form and accompanied by the appropriate subscription. In the event of an application being declined by the Committee the Secretary shall return to the applicant the full amount paid.

Subscription

7) Subscriptions may be determined from year to year by a resolution of a General Meeting, but if not so determined in any year shall be that subscription from the previous Club year

Payment of Subscription

8) All subscriptions shall be payable as from the day immediately after the Annual General Meeting.

9) Any member who is unfinancial shall not be entitled to enjoy the privileges of the Club.

Expulsion

10) Any member wilfully disobeying these rules, or guilty of misconduct which in the opinion of the Club is contrary to its objectives, may be expelled by a Special Resolution at a General Meeting provided that the member is given fourteen (14) days notice of such intent.

Alteration of the Rules

11) These rules shall not be added to, altered, or rescinded except by a “Special Resolution” passed at a General Meeting, provided that not less than seven days notice shall be given to all Club members of the proposed additions, alterations, or rescissions to be brought to such meetings, provided always that accidental failure to notify any member shall not invalidate the meeting if this Rule is being substantially complied with and provided that all notices of motion of any such proposed additions, alterations, or remissions shall be in the hands of the Secretary at least fourteen (14) days prior to the date of the meeting.

General Meeting

12) The Annual General Meeting of the Club shall be held in the month of October in each year upon a date and at a time and place to be fixed by the Committee. The Annual General Meeting shall;

a) Receive audited accounts of the financial year ending 30^th September.

b) Receive from the Committee a report on the activities of the Club.

c) Elect the Officers of the Club as provided in these rules under Rule 19.

d) Decide on any resolution which may have been duly submitted in accordance with these Rules.

Notice of General Meeting

13) Notice of the date and place of any General Meeting shall be notified to all Members at least seven days before the date thereof and notice of the business to be transacted at such meetings shall be posted to members at least seven days before the date of such meetings. Accidental failure to notify and members shall not invalidate the meeting if this rule has been substantially complied with.

Special General Meeting

14) The Committee may at any time, and shall on the requisition in writing of at least ten percent (10%) of the total of Adult members, Student members and Family members (which requisition shall set out in the form of resolutions the business proposed to be transacted at such meetings), convene a Special General Meeting for any specific propose or purposes. This meeting shall not be held any more than twenty eight (28) days after the date of the receipt of the requisition by the Secretary, and if the committee does not do so within that period the members making the requisition may themselves convene a meeting.

Procedure at General Meetings

15) At all General Meetings, the chair shall be taken by the President, or if not the President, the next most senior member of the Committee present. In the absence of any Committee member, it shall be taken by a member chosen by the meeting.

16) Every Adult and Student member present shall have one vote. Every family member present shall have one vote, and limited to two votes per Family membership. In the case of equality of votes the Chairman shall have a casting vote.

17) The quorum at a General Meeting shall be ten percent (10%) of the total financial membership of the Club.

18) Voting shall be by voice, but if any member so desires, the Chairman shall call for a show of hands or by ballot if so required.

Officers

19) The executive of the Club shall consist of the President, Club Captain, Secretary, and Treasurer. The Executive shall have the power to act on behalf of the Committee where by reason of emergency, or otherwise, it is impractical for the Committee to be convened.

In addition the elected Committee shall have the power to co-opt a maximum of five (5) additional Committee members with full voting rights and who shall be Members of the Club, with the provision that any, or all, of the five so co-opted Committee members may at the option of the elected officers be removed from the Committee.

20) The President shall at some time previous to the election as President have served on the Committee. In the event of no candidate for the office of President fulfilling this requirement the Club may then elect a President who has not served on the Committee.

21) The executive and Committee shall be elected at the Annual General Meeting, but shall have the power to fill casual vacancies from member of the Club.

22) A defeated nominee for an Executive office shall be automatically eligible for election to the Committee if that person wishes.

23) Officer job descriptions shall be defined from time to time by the Committee.

Subcommittee

24) The Committee shall have the power to appoint such subcommittees as it considers necessary.

Meetings of the Club

25) A meeting of the Committee may be called at any time by the President or secretary, and shall be called within seven (7) days of the receipt by the Secretary of a requisition signed by three (3) members of the Committee.

Quorum of the Committee

26) At the meeting of the committee (4) elected Committee members shall constitute a quorum and the Chairman shall have casting vote.

Auditor

27) The Auditor shall be appointed each year by the Committee and shall not be a member of the Committee.

Finance

28) The financial year of the Club shall end on the thirtieth (30^th) day of September in each year to which date the accounts shall be balanced.

Bank Accounts

29) The Club shall have a current account at a Trading Bank and/ or Savings Bank and such other bank accounts as may be deemed necessary for the operation of the Club. These will be operated by the Treasurer alone

Accounts and Balance Sheet

30) An income and expenditure account and a balance sheet shall be prepared and audited each year and shall be presented to the Club at the Annual General Meeting.

Duties of Members

31) Every member shall notify the Secretary in writing of any change in address and all notices posted to such address shall be considered as having been duly given.

Charges

32) The Committee may make a charge to users of any Club property of privilege and to charge for any damage thereto.

Capital Expenditure

33) Any capital expenditure proposals above the amounts of $2000.00 shall be presented at a General Meeting for approval, complete with projections of benefits of the proposal.

Investment

34) All funds of the Club shall be paid into the Club’s Bank Account and any part thereof may, if the Committee so determines, be invested on fixed deposit through such Bank. Any other investments shall require the approval of the members in General Meeting.

Borrowing Powers

35) The Committee shall have the power to borrow such amounts and on such terms as it thinks fit, and to give such security as the Committee deems expedient for the repayment and interest. Any borrowing other than that from the Club bankers or members shall require the approval of members in General Meeting.

Winding Up

36) Upon the winding up of the Club, after payment of all its liabilities, its properties shall be disposed of in a manner provided by a Resolution passed at a General Meeting of the Club and confirmed at a further General Meeting called for that purpose not earlier than thirty (30) days after the first General Meeting of the Club, and such Resolution shall be sent to the Registrar of Incorporated Societies, provided that no distribution whether by way of monies, property, or otherwise shall be made to any member of the Club.

RULES ADOPTED at Dunedin this day of 2008

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President

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Club Captain

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Treasurer

Matariki Tag Team Fun Comp

This Saturday 21st June 9am at the Brighton Beach Carpark.
We'll Go with the flow on the day....

Teams may consist of;
1 x Long boarder
1 x Short boarder
1 x Woman
1 x Learner 'Barney'
One surfer from each team will be the Nominated "power surfer" who's points will be doubled according to unspecified style, dress sense, maneuvers performed under peer pressure!

Each 'Heat' shall be 20 min long (or something like that)
Sound good? comments?

Here are the 'rules'

a) A typical match will consist of 4 teams of 5 surfers competing over 1 set. No surfer may surf twice.
Only 1 team member from each team will be allowed in the water at any one time.

b) Each surfer must commence from the allocated beach or water start line as nominated by the Contest Director.

c) The team order of surfing cannot be changed once submitted at ‘check in time’. The power surfer must also be nominated. The Contest Director will nominate the Team composition criteria.

d) Each surfer can catch a maximum of 3 waves.

e) The surfer must nominate/claim 2 of those waves by raising both their hands above their head before making an attempt/ motion to paddle out again or, if the surfer has completed their 3rd wave before the surfer enters the team zone / box.

f) Once the wave is nominated cannot be changed and therefore counts as a scoring wave. If a surfer fails to nominate any waves, the surfer will not be scored & zero points will be allocated for that wave/s.

g) When a surfer has nominated 2 waves they must return to the shore and make contact with the beach marker or ‘team zone/box’ located in a designated area on the beach, thus releasing the next team surfer.

h) Each team will have a power surfer. The power surfer will have all their 3 rides counting in the team score. The power surfer does not have to nominate their waves as every ride will count in the team total.

i) Team surfers must make contact with the beach marker to release the next team surfer. The next surfer must stay behind the start line or allocated buoy/paddle from point until this time.

j) Heat times will be at the discretion of the Contest Director.

k) The Contest Director designates the start line and beach/water marker.

l) Final results are achieved by adding total scores together.

m) drop in penalties.
When a riding interference has been scored the interfering surfer is penalized by that wave being scored as a zero.
The surfer who has been interfered with will receive a wave over the 3 wave maximum. If the surfer elects the extra wave they must nominate/claim as one of the waves.

Taieri Herald june 17

Meeting Minutes 14 june 08

14^th June 2008
1088 Brighton Road, Brighton Dunedin
Meeting started 7pm

Present: Jono Pascoe, Jimmy Crooks, Leroy Rust, Nathan Lungley, Andy Sutherland, Jeff Munroe, Jayin Tzu, Chris Lamb,Hayley Coakes.

· It was discussed and agreed that membership would be $10 for students, $20 for Adults and $40 for Families.

· Leroy suggested that the club contact the Otago Scholastics committee with regard to members participating the Otago Scholastics schedule for the upcoming season 08-09.

· With regard to contest running a sponsor is sought for sponsorship/supply of competition rashies.

· The members decided to contact Lake Hawea and South Coast Boardriders with regard to interclub competitions, Otago Champs and a general ‘hello’.

· As part of membership it was decide to approach some Dunedin retailers for a loyalty card.

· SISA membership was reported as $112 per year. It was decided that the club would SISA affiliated for the upcoming 2008-9 season.

· It was reported that a judging course run by SISA in July was available. Jimmy, Nathan, Leroy and Andy expressed interest in doing this course.

· It was jointly decided that the financial year should coincide with the June Solstice.

· It was decided the current committee would run until the 2008 September AGM, where a full committee would be elected by current members.

· All present discussed and eventually elected a 5 person temporary committee featuring

Secretary - Jono Pascoe
Treasurer - Jayin Tzu
President – Jimmy Crooks
Womens rep – vacant
Environmental – Leroy Rust

A club constitution is currently being worked on, and will be posted on the blog before the next meeting for comment and input.

• Members also decided they also wanted to have strong community participation by helping families be introduced to surfing and participating in active environmental acts and issues as well as local and central government issues.

• It was also decided to have fun contests along the lines of tag team, deciding the comps on the day, like: ugly board comps, full moon surfing, single fin.

• Members were asked to submit designs for letterheads, stickers, t-shirt and hoody designs for the new logo, as the previous ones could not be tracked down. Flags to be organised by Jay and a car horn by Jono.

• It was decided that communication within the club and its members was paramount, which would be achieved through both the blog (www.bigrock-boardriders.blogspot.com ) of which members are encouraged to contribute to, and an 027 cell phone dedicated to the club.

• Mr Munroe would be happy to be liaise between the Big Rock Boardriders and the Brighton Surf Life Saving club.

re-inagural meeting

There is a meeting set for Saturday night 7pm June the 14th at the South Seas Gallery 1088 Brighton Rd, Brighton.
There will be a voting in of the committee and drawing up a constitution, setting membership fees and discussing winter plans and club direction.
All welcome to attend

Jimmy Crooks

After Jimmy s Success in Kaikoura,
he was interviewed for an article in the Taieri Herald.