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Club Activities And Their Educational Benefits:
A. Getting started
The Club Venue
Responsibility for property
The children and youth who attend the club will be set up and maintain it throughout the year, making it into a place that is fun to be in. They can build a Pump-trek and/or a Dirt Jump deck, paint the clubroom, furnish it, equip it with a screen, cycling films and magazines etc.
The Contract
Commitment
The youngsters will sign a contract with the club agreeing to attend the club and participate in its activities. Their counselor will also sign the contract giving his/her commitment to take responsibility for the club.
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B. Educational Activities:
Cycling Skills: Basic and Advanced Cycling
Dedication - work, concentration and attention
The club’s main activity will involve group outings on bicycles in the neighborhood. This will follow the instructor’s detailed goal-oriented training program throughout the year. Each activity has its specific goals, which the youngsters know and work toward. Their progress is measurable and assessed. The activity includes games and training exercises. The curriculum includes: use of brakes, use of gears, starting up, curves and corners, looking ahead, choosing the path, learning how to fall, the basics of group riding, carrying the bicycle through obstacles, uphill biking, downhill etc.
Bike Maintenance
Responsibility and respect for equipment
The activity will begin with teaching basic knowledge and respect for the equipment that the children and youth will be using each time – the bicycle. Second-hand bicycles will be collected from cyclists in the region and the first meetings at the club will focus on their mechanics and maintenance. For example: tuning gears, tuning brakes, tuning the bicycle, cleaning the chain, mending punctures etc. The youngsters will also learn that whatever equipment they use has to be returned at the end of the activity and the club has to be tidied.
Road Safety
Respect for life and safety
The club will include learning about road safety in its curriculum, focusing on the highway code as well as on the importance of the helmet, reflectors and lights. Research has shown that young cyclists who learn road safety at an early age make for safer drivers later on and are less involved in road accidents.
Orienteering Games and Map-reading
Spatial awareness
Following completion of the basic and advanced cycling syllabus, experienced cyclists at the club can learn map reading, the lie of the land, identification of landmarks, orienteering on foot and on the bicycle. This will improve their spatial awareness and useful experience for the army.
Physical Fitness Training
Quality of life
A healthy body helps to develop a healthy mind. Throughout all its activities, the instructor will teach and encourage the youth towards healthy eating and drinking, physical exercise and proper rest, fresh air, to promote a healthy way of life.
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Workshops and Professional Lectures
Learning and knowledge about the sport
During the year, the hands-on activities will be enriched with lessons given by the instructor or invited specialists on topics relevant to cycling, such as nutrition for sportsmen, the training of cyclists, history of cycling, cycling films and slide shows of cycling treks in other parts of the world.
Local Guides
Leadership, responsibility, organization
The youngsters will soon get to know all the trails in their area. The club will encourage each youth to take leadership roles and become a guide for a particular trail. The instructor will create activities that enable youths to lead and guide outings on local trails, activities for children, adults or families.
Pump-Trek for Training
Learning experience, fun
One-off one-day training at the Pump-Trek at the All Ride club at Kfar Achim, with the support of the Israel Cycling Federation.
C. Enrichment Activities
End of Year Celebration
Praise and self-esteem
Every club will celebrate the end of the year’s activity with a ceremony. The parents will be invited and each child will receive a certificate of participation. Prizes or other forms of recognition will be given to those who have excelled, sponsored, or taken special and worthy roles in the club’s activities during the year.
Family Outings
Family fun, involvement, and support
The club will organize bike rides for the youngsters together with their families, to gain their support for their child’s cycling activity and their involvement in the club’s projects.
Parent Involvement
Honor one’s parents, family participation
As parental support is essential for the club’s success, the club will reach out to keep the parents involved. For example, parents will be invited to come to the club to speak about the work they do or their hobbies or whatever topic they would like to share. They can be encouraged to become in other ways too.
Club-to-club Hospitality
Mutual respect, socialization, acceptance of the Other
Once a year the club will leave home and visit another club that is part of the national bike club scheme. During this visit (up to 3 days), the youngsters will stay with their hosts, the youth of the club they are visiting, ride and play games with them.
National Cycling Events
The striving and promotion of excellence
The Israel Cycling Federation will arrange several national events during the year, where clubs can participate and meet their goals. These events include national competitions, inter-club competitions, group excursions, and workshops.
Overnight Excursions
Love and knowledge of the land
An overnight excursion will be an occasional treat for the club that breaks the weekly routine. The trip can be to a region that the youth have never visited, or on part of the Israel Trail.
Summer Camps
Fun and socialization
The Israel Cycling Federation will help to organize summer camps for all club members, which will be the climax of the year’s activities. It will last a few days, like the scout summer camps, and involve sleeping out and outdoor activities in a national park or forest.
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D. Community Activities
Organizing A Local Event
Initiative and organization, social responsibility
Once a year each club will organize a local event for the people of the town or area in which they live. The popular event will take place in a local park or open space and will include a cycling itinerary that participants of different ages and abilities can enjoy and take part in. The event will have a festival atmosphere that promotes cycling as a sport and the club’s activities.
Recycling, Repairing and Giving
Respect for property, respect and help for the poor
In every neighborhood there are broken bicycles. The club will encourage the youngsters to collect these and repair them. The refurbished bicycles, in good working order, will then be donated to poor people who can and will use them.
Forging and Maintaining New Bike Trails
Conservation of nature, group pride
One of the most popular club activities is usually the creating of a new bike trail near their neighborhood. The club will work in collaboration with the Jewish National Fund and the National Parks Authority to choose and mark out a suitable route (for single file riding). The youngsters will learn about the principles of conservation of nature during this project. The club will take pride and responsibility for creating and maintaining this trail according to ecological principles.
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Bike Patrols
Conservation of nature
The club cyclists will learn from the local authorities about pollution and how to look after the environment. They will then become the authorities’ helpers, reporters, and collaborators in conserving the nature and cleanliness wherever and whenever they cycle. They will be expected to set an example by always picking up rubbish on their trails.
Environmental Clean-up
Conservation of nature
The club can organize a local clean-up event, where it leads local volunteers to help clean up a nearby forest or open area in which the club rides. This will be done in collaboration with the local authority, which will provide bags for collection of rubbish and help with their removal. This will be part of the youngsters’ on-going education to keep their trails and environment clean
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