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wr ; a Ob Rhonda White, 19, of Port Perry is play- ing hockey this season with the York U. Yeowomen. She is a first year phys. ed. stu- dent at York. (See story) | Agricrew is on the job If you have been seeing signs around the area saying "Winter Agricrew at Work" and thought it was a leftover or forgotten item from the summer program be assured that isn't the case. There is now one four person Agricrew operating in the area and hopefully before long there will be two or three more crews work- ing. The crew has worked on a dairy farm in the Pickering area and a tree farm near Wark- worth. The crew mem- bers are from the Oshawa area. They have limited farm experience but first reports back indicate this has not affected the quality of work done by the crew. One farmer has already indicated he would like the crew to come again this winter and the other would like to be able to hire them for more than the 5 day maximum. The crews have been working in dairy barns and clearing brush in this area. In other areas crews have been trimm- ing sheep hooves, de- beaking turkeys, clean- ing poultry barns and doing minor building demolition. Farm bookings are available and youths 15 to 24 can still obtain applications to work as crew members. Contact your local Ministry of Agriculture and Food for more information or the area co-ordinator, Karen Vaughan in Ux- bridge (416) 852-3328. HOME INSURANCE DJ TAYLOR INSURANCE BROKERS LTD. 170 Water Street North, Port Perry - 985-8416 Also see us about your Life, Auto, Farm, Commercial & Mortgage Insurance Needs! PORT PERRY MINOR HOCKEY sponsored by: PORT PERRY Playing hockey is not exactly a novel ex- perience for Rhonda White. The 19 year old Port Perry native spent nine years with an all-girls team in Ops Township. But this winter, Rhon- da is patrolling left wing for the York University . Yeowomen's team, one of just four first year students on the school's 14 player roster. In a recent interview with the Star, Rhonda said the calibre of play and level of competition is very high in the five team women's universi- ty hockey league. The other schools with teams in the loop are U of T, Guelph, McMaster and Queens. The team usually plays one game per week and holds two practises at the York University Arena. On the weeks there are no games scheduled, the players have an extra one and a half hour practise. "There is a lot of em- phasis on positional play, getting the puck out of our zone, and condition- ing," Rhonda said. Aside from the fact, there is no centre line (no two line passes) the rules are pretty much the same as in mens' hockey. Body checking is allowed, but not full con- tact, and Rhonda says the pace can be pretty hectic and rough, especially when the At 5 ft. 2 inches, Rhon- da is one of the smallest players 'on the squad which includes one skater at 6 ft. 1 inch and two at 5 ft. 10 inches. Although this is just her first year, Rhonda says she is pleased with her performance so far, averaging a goal per game. She is getting ex- tra ice time on the power play and killing penalties. She says the Yeowomen have a good shot at first place as the team has played better than the won three, tied two and lost three record 3 indicates. The highlight of the season so far was winn- ing the championship at the York Invitational tournament which in- cluded a thrilling 3-2 win over arch-rival Universi- ty of Toronto. York was trailing 2-0 late in the game, tied the score and then won the game in over-time. York has also beat the blues by Hugh Westrup For years and years, tennis coaches have been instructing their pupils to snap the wrist when serving the ball. "Bad advice," says Dr. Barbara Gowitzke, a professor of physical education at Hamilton McMaster University. In fact, it may contri- bute to tennis elbow, she adds. With the aid of a high-speed camera, Dr. Gowitzke recently con- firmed that a powerful tennis serve does not involve any snapping of the wrist. Quite the opposite, in fact: the wrist stays immobile. "When we show our films to tennis coaches, their redaction is one of absolute disbelief,' she says. Dr. Gowitzke filmed some of Canada's top amateur and profession- al tennis players with a movie camera capable of taking 400 frames per second (the normal speed for movies is about 18 to 24 frames per second). "We were able to see exactly what happens during the crucial split-second when the arm comes down and the racket smacks the ball,"' she says. Not only is the old coach's commandment set ohaw me ren VAN CAMP CONTRACTING LTD. | BHT 90 Vanedward Drive, SAVE YOUR BODY Port Perry (416) 985-8469 PORT PERRY STAR -- Mon. December 24, 1984 -- 21 5-3 in league play and suffered an 8-3 loss. The rivalry between York and U of T is so in- tense that the team members wore "Bluebusters" t-shirts over their uniforms for one of the encounters. As well as ice hockey, Rhonda played on the women's field hockey squad this fall and will take up indoor field hockey when the school semester starts again in incorrect, it may also be harmful to the health, says Dr. Gowitzke. '""When you snap the wrist the muscles on the back of the forearm are stretched. This pulls at the attachments on the elbow." "It's my suspicion that snapping the wrist may promote tennis elbow." Not only that, but snapping the wrist also seems to decrease the power of the serve. "If you're just the wrist joint, you don't have as much power as if you are using all the joints in the arm." "Another reason to avoid the snap is the very real possibility of sending the racket fly- ing across the court, since the hand has a tendency to release its grip when the wrist is bent down," she adds. Dr. Gowitzke's husband, David Waddell, an internation- al authority on badmin- ton, first declared the wrist snap a myth. Waddell had long been convinced that the key movement in both the badminton smash and the tennis serve is 'pronation' - the cross- ing over of the two long bones in the forearm, which happens when the hand is rotated. Waddell NWT } TROPHIES © 1 and I J ENGRAVING | DO-NO's | RECORD, CRAFT & HOBBY WORLD B Queen St, Port Perry . 9852839 § Lr A oN . Port Perry girl finds real hockey challenge at York U. January. She admits the sports takes up a lot of her time, but says she is keeping up the grades in the first year phys. ed. program. The York Women's field hockey team is coached by the Canadian Olympic team coach and there are several players from that Olympic squad playing for York. Although she didn't come right out and say it, Rhonda hinted that her insisted on this for so long that he was event- ually nicknamed "Mr. Pronation."' With the use of the super-fast camera, the husband and wife finally had the visual evidence they needed to support his idea. Why has the myth of the wrist snap persisted for so long? According to Dr. Gowitzke, most coaches simply do not know what goes on during a serve. "The human eye is incapable of telling what goes on when a complex actions such as a tennis serve takes only one-tenth of a second to complete," she says. She says that many coaches have not welcomed her findings. '""They have a lot of years invested in giving the old advice,"' she says. 'Only a few coaches and tennis books are telling people the right way to serve." Players who want to improve their overhead strokes are advised by Dr. Gowitzke to perform CIC) JUNIOR "C" ; HOCKEY dream would be to im- prove her field hockey skills and make the team which will represent Canada at the 1988 Olym- pic Games in Korea. In the meantime, she is looking forward to the re- mainder of the ice hockey season and the chance to de-throne the U of T blues who are defending league champs. Don't snap that wrist exercises that involve pronoation. "Hold your arm out straight in front of you with the palm facing the ground. Then, turn your hand so that the palm faces upwards. By alternating your palm between these two positions you are mak- ing one bone in your forearm cross over the other bone. You're doing pronation." Dr. Gowitzke says topranked amateurs and professional tennis players have learned how to get the most power into a serve by following their instincts and through years of hard work. 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