For the month of November the BC Ski Team boys are kicking the razor blades and electric shavers to the curb and letting their moustaches all hang out. A tribute to Goldy you ask? Not this time, this is all to support the growing phenomena that is Movember.
MORE INFO ON THE CAUSE The Mo, slang for moustache, and November come together each year for Movember.
Movember challenges men to change their appearance and the face of men’s health by growing a moustache. The rules are simple, start Movember 1st clean-shaven and then grow a moustache for the entire month. The moustache becomes the ribbon for men’s health, the means by which awareness and funds are raised for prostate cancer. Much like the commitment to run or walk for charity, the men of Movember commit to growing a moustache for 30 days.
The idea for Movember was sparked in 2003 over a few beers in Melbourne, Australia. The plan was simple – to bring the moustache back as a bit of a joke and do something for men’s health. No money was raised in 2003, but the guys behind the Mo realized the potential a moustache had in generating conversations about men’s health. Inspired by the women around them and all they had done for breast cancer, the Mo Bros set themselves on a course to create a global men’s health movement.
In 2004 the campaign evolved and focused on raising awareness and funds for the number one cancer affecting men – prostate cancer. 432 Mo Bros joined the movement that year, raising $55,000 for the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia – representing the single largest donation they had ever received.
The Movember moustache has continued to grow year after year, expanding to Canada, the US, UK, New Zealand, Ireland, Spain, South Africa, the Netherlands and Finland.
In 2009, global participation of Mo Bros and Mo Sistas climbed to 255,755, with over one million donors raising $47 Million for Movember’s global beneficiary partners. We are proud to announce that last year’s Canadian campaign was the second largest in the world behind Australia, with 35,156 Mo Bros and Mo Sistas coming together to raise $7.8 million for Prostate Cancer Canada.
Canadian Snowsports Association policy, in regards to Commercial General Liability coverage, states that no minors under the age of 5 years can be registered with any discipline. All ACA athletic development programs & LTAD models begin at the age of 5 years as it is expected that any participant will clearly be able to ski safely when in situations with limited or decreased supervision. Simply put ACA and its clubs are not in the business of teaching skiing, rather we are in the business of developing skiers into competitors. It is expected that skiers in ACA Programs have maturity and can in fact ski on their own.
With the increase in cost to participate in the sport, & to manage athlete burn out in the early teen year’s, restriction of membership registration for those under the age of 5 years supports strong athletic management.
Due to this new policy the two BC Alpine registration categories which allowed 4 year olds (E1 and General Members) have been updated to only allow a minimum age of 5.
Please keep this in mind when recruiting for your club this season.
By request I have created an embedded version of the BC Alpine Event Calendar. Put simply, you can copy and paste a single line of code into your website and the BC Alpine calendar and all it’s updates will show up on your website.
For 2010 Legacies Now, Rachel Corbett and Dina Bell-Laroche have written a great practical resource guide for sport organizations. Over 100 pages long, the Guide represents a summary of our work on risk management in the sport community from over the last 20 years. In particular, the Guide consolidates our learnings from the Risk Management Project – a True Sport-funded initiative managed by the Centre for Sport and Law from 2007 to the present. The Guide also contains almost 20 different appendices of useful tools and tips.
To obtain your free copy visit http://www.2010legaciesnow.com/club-standards/ and scroll slightly down the page. You will be asked to register with 2010 Legacies Now but the twenty seconds it takes to register is well worth the final result.
