Here is a link to a video with a few clips from Friday Nights’s Senior Training Session
16 Sunday Nov 2014
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inHere is a link to a video with a few clips from Friday Nights’s Senior Training Session
11 Tuesday Nov 2014
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inHere are the Falkirk Cannon Youth Section training last friday night
26 Sunday Oct 2014
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inV5 UK Club Championships
The 2014 V5 UK Club Championships were held in Scunthorpe.
The Falkirk Cannons were represented by Sara Plummer (player/coach), Meghan Plummer (player/coach), Robyn Taylor, Mathew Stocks and Gavin Turnbull. The team was somewhat depleted in numbers but not in effort or enthusiasm! The team played extremely well together and put in a good performance coming third overall.
Cannons were the only team to take a quarter off the overall Champions Phoenix and only lost out on 2nd place by 5 points in their final match!!
Coach Sara Plummer Was Quoted:
“So proud of the Cannons today! You all played fab and I was really impressed with the dedication and commitment each of the players showed.
Matthew was a key player, really getting in amongst the action especially with being so young at 14! Imagine how good you will be in a few years.
Gavin you so stepped up today showing a real understanding of the tactics of the game, well done!!
Robyn, you and your catches, imagine how many points you added. The teamwork between you and Meghan was outstanding, what a pair!
As for the rest of the squad who couldn’t make it down this weekend, without your commitment, perseverance and help at training over the last few months we would not have performed as well as we did today! So pleased with the squad we have!
See you all at training on Tuesday!”
Sara Plummer Received player of the Tournament Award. Congratulation goes to Sara from all the Cannons!
We would also like to thank our travelling support as always in helping get the team down to Scunthorpe and back and for all the support!
16 Tuesday Sep 2014
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inThe 2014 V2 World Championships were held in Harrogate this year at Harrogate squash club. The event was sponsored by SunnyCam Video Recording Eyewear.
The Falkirk Cannons had a number of its members participating in the in all levels of the competition this year and we would like to congratulate them on their success!
Global VX Commissioner Craig Buttery “Again games were played with Honour, Integrity and Respect, again standards rose to a new level. All in all another successful World Championships bigger than last year and next year will be the Philadelphia VX Games on the 14th, 15th and 16th August which again will be bigger and better, pushing the boundaries of participation in VX with more new friendships being forged and standards raised. So to everyone involved thank you for your participation and thank you.”
Below are the V2 World Rankings for Senior, Youth and Master. Falkirk Cannons are marked in red. All in all another successful World Championships bigger than last year and next year will be the Philadelphia VX Games on the 14th, 15th and 16th August which again will be bigger and better, pushing the boundaries of participation in VX with more new friendships being forged and standards raised. So to everyone involved thank you for your participation and thank you
Senior
1st Jack R. Brown England
2nd Carl Alsop England Sponsored by C-Barz
3rd Scott Snowdon England Sponsored by C-Barz
4th Tom Hildreth England Sponsored by VX International
5th Scott MacMichael Scotland
6th Dan Raper England
7th Meghan Plummer Scotland Sponsored by VX International
8th Malingha Timothy Uganda Sponsored by Liberty Insurance
9th Liam Leckenby England
10th Matti Chasan Bergstein Denmark
11th Aaron Perry England
12th Tony Notarianni USA
Youth
1st Tom Brown England Sponsored by C-Barz
2nd Charlie Ford England
3rd Chris Hodge England
4th Will Charters Reid England
5th Robyn Taylor Scotland
6th Cameron MacIntyre Scotland
7th Aimee Caldwell Scotland
8th Meghan Davidson Scotland
Masters
1st Paul Hildreth England
2nd Conrad Broughton England
3rd Tony Nield Scotland
4th Andrew Foster England
05 Saturday Apr 2014
Posted How to play, News, VX
inChannel 4’s Transworld Sport were in Scotland filming The Cannons as we trained in February. We are delighted this filming made the show that aired today at 7am today.
Trans World Sport is a Sports-related television programme produced by IMG Media in London and shown worldwide on a variety of television channels.
It is world’s longest running weekly international television sports programme and has been in continuous production every week since 5 May 1987.
Today, it is shown over 50 countries with a household reach of nearly 200 million. For over 25 years, they have endeavoured to bring not only the top names and events, but also the off-beat and esoteric stories from the world of sport.
They covered both our V2 squads and the V5 Senior and Youth squad training as well as taking some action footage at The Helix and The Falkirk Wheel. There were interviews with our two world champions Scott McMichael and Meghan Plummer as well as Head coach Gordon Archibald. Falkirk Cannons are the first UK club to get international TV coverage.
The link to see us on 4OD is as follows:
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/trans-world-sport/4od#3676600
Youtube link is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mH__XTGcRc
We’ll be posting to Twitter and the Facebook page as soon as the footage is available
25 Saturday Jan 2014
Perhaps the best way to learn about VX is to come long to one of our training sessions, the times and venues for which can be see here
Our sport is fast paced, fun, technical and tactical. It actively promotes good sportsmanship, FairPlay and equality. It can be played by all abilities and is one of the few sports where both genders compete on a par with each other. Dexterity and finesse are as important as strength, stamina and speed. It’s no coincidence that one of the best players in the world is a young lady player from Cannons who beat 11 young men to the world title in 2012.
There is a full and informative entry on Wikipedia here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock-It-Ball
The 2012 Youth World Championship Video:
The 2011 Senior World Championship: