Freestyle Selections 2009

The selection for this years Great British Freestyle kayak team was three events held over the past two months. The first two were held up at Nottingham, at the Holme Pierrepoint white water course. The third was held at Hurley. These events, for anyone that doesn’t know, were to select the British team for this [...]

River access in Wales; A chance for your voice to be heard.

From the National Assembly of Wales website: ———————————- Inquiry into Access to Inland Water The Sustainability Committee agreed on 24 June 2009 to undertake an inquiry into Access to Inland Water in Wales. You may be interested to note that the Assembly Bus will be visiting the following locations to gather video evidence as part of the Sustainability Committee’s [...]

Time Trial

It’s been a little while since my last post and now I’m back in the south west I thought it was about time I did a time trial on my adopted “home” run, the upper Dart. So here it is, my time from just below the put in where it opens up into the river, [...]

10 years on…

When I was 15 I ran the top drop on the Gamlan (at very low levels). 10 years later, I was lucky enough to find good water levels and sunshine on the same day; so donned my shiny kit to run the river with nostalgic memories of Topos and Schlegels. The gear has changed, but the [...]