Southern Polo Academy (SPA) – Second training Day
A few photos from todays SPA training event attended by 3 of Nomads budding youth polo players
Polo Update
Congratulations to Nomads Polo squad (Aled, Anthony, Callum, Chilly, Lleyton, Nigel, Tony) for an excellent performance at the first 2024 Div3 SE polo tournament held at Nomads over the weekend of 27-28 April. With five wins and one loss we are ranked second and are well placed for the second tournament on 29-30 June. Our young players shone with some excellent sprinting from Lleyton and inspired goal keeping skills from Aled. Also a thank you to Chilly for organising.
Southern Polo Academy (SPA) – First Training Day
A few photos from todays SPA training event
Youth Polo Tournament
On Saturday 21/1/23 Nomads were superbly represented by our youth Polo team at Bedford. The team comprised of (in alphabetical order) Aled, Cameron (goalie) , George, Jenna , Lleyton and Teo. The evening started with a tough game against St Albans A one of the best teams at the tournament and considering this was the first match playing together as a team they put on one of their best performances of the evening losing in a hard-fought match 2-1. Throughout the evening the confidence of the team grew culminating in them winning 2 games comfortably against Meridian B and St Albans B and only losing by one goal against Meridian A who scored for the win in the last 2 seconds after Cameron had kept Nomads in the game with…
New Sunday sessions well subscribed!
Nomads practicing social distancing The second Sunday since Nomad's return to paddling was well subscribed with the first recreational session and the polo session both full and the second recreational session half full.As Chilly and the junior squad practiced on the polo pitch, the recreational groups paddled round Bury lake getting used to the feel of their boats (and themselves!) again before venturing further afield. This may not sound too exciting, but some games and high brace and skulling support practice livened it up considerably.The first opportunity for river paddling for confident paddlers will be on Sunday the 12th of July on the Thames trip at Henley.Please do renew your membership and sign up for the Sunday and Wednesday sessions and trips, which will run as much as possible depending…
Nomad A Team Promoted to Division 1
[caption id="attachment_2453" align="aligncenter" width="960"] The Nomad A Team after their promotion at the playoffs[/caption] Congratulations to the A team who have been promoted to the National Canoe Polo League's first division!
Development Polo – 0900 on Sundays
The Youth and Development Polo sessions commence again this Sunday the 24th May at 9am and will run every Sunday at this time until Sunday 19th July. Every sessions will conclude with at least two ten minute games after which participants are welcome to stay on for the general polo session at 10:30 or return to the clubhouse to get changed. The sessions will particularly focus on improving boat confidence, paddling proficiency, strength and ball handling skills later leading towards working as a team to maintain possession and scoring to win. Subject to how players get on, we plan to enter a youth and/or a development team to the London International Polo competition that takes place in South London over the weekend of 24/26 July. Please note that to attend…
Rickmansworth Festival 16th/17th May 2015
Next weekend is the Rickmansworth Festival and your club needs your help to promote the club and let festival goers know who we are and what we do. This means we can recruit more members and remain a healthy and active club. To promote the club, we will have an information stand at the clubhouse and we will be running ‘Come and Try’ sessions on Saturday 17th at 1pm, 3pm & 4.30pm and Sunday 18th 11.30am, 1pm & 3.30pm. There will also be Canoe Polo Demonstrations on both days at 2pm. Help is required from 10am on both days. Over the weekend there will be no formal recreational or polo sessions but there will be plenty of opportunity for all members to kayak at some stage during the weekend. How…
Novice & Beginners Polo
Novice & Beginners Polo Training We are hosting polo training for novices and beginners every Saturday in October between 9am and 10.30am. You will need your usual change of clothes. Free for members of Nomads, the non-members charge is £5 a session. Novice & Beginners Polo League Do you want to play polo in competition with others of a similar ability, if so the Development League could be for you? Our first friendly tournament will be held in the aquadrome immediately after warm up training on Saturday 4th October and you are welcome to come along and watch or play. If you want to play please let Katherine, Malc or Chilly know before the day. Our second tournament is on Saturday 25th October in the evening at an indoor swimming…
London International 2014 Results
On the 26th and 27th July Nomad Kayak Club entered two teams into the 16th London International Canoe Polo Tournament 2014, hosted by Meridian Canoe Club. [caption id="attachment_1600" align="aligncenter" width="300"] 'Nomad Mixed' entered into Division 2, finishing in 4th place.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_1601" align="aligncenter" width="300"] 'Nomad Others' entered into Division 3, finishing in 11th place.[/caption] The full results are below: