Beyond the Drop – Pro Kayaking Video Presented By Teva

Posted on June 18, 2013 by Unsponsored

Six pro kayakers from around the world meet up in the rainforests of Southern Mexico to run the Rio Tulijá. Also known as the Agua Azul, the river features impossibly blue water and a series of five large waterfalls. Led by Rafa Ortiz, the kayak team, including Rush Sturges, Evan Garcia, Aniol Serrasolses, Martina Wegman and Casper Van Kalmthout, have fun exploring the river and the local culture, showing us that when it comes to running waterfalls there’s a lot more to it than just the drop.

Rapid Block Dev Day June 2013 – Tees Barrage

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Unsponsored

Today was the first development day for modification to the feature named “Happy Eater” at the Tees Barrage International White Water course. The course uses the Rapid Block system as used in the London Olympics. The blocks are bolted to the floor of the course and can be configured to create a range of features.

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Before the multi million pound upgrade to the course “Happy Eater” was a breaking wave/relatively gentle stopper that was superb for flat spins and blunts. Since re-opening many paddlers have expressed that they wanted something like the old “Happy Eater” back. Thankfully support from the management team at the barrage has resulted in a a new Facebook group being created and a chance for paddlers to design the layout of the course. Continue reading →

Norway II – Day 3 and 4

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Unsponsored

Day 3 – Because we are all Brown stouting athletes we started today by racing each other down the Strondal. It was tense but Phil Mitchel eventually won. We then spent a couple of hours driving around arguing about what run to get on eventually ending up on the Ruandal rafting section and play section where we met some Voss locals who turned out to be real brown stouting athletes. Afterwards Rainey did painful things with a wasabi pea and then we ate chicken fajitas which was a nice improvement on the smart price meatballs.

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Punching Giants

Posted on June 16, 2013 by Unsponsored

A very well crafted movie. Well worth watching.

Punching Giants from Lakesboaters on Vimeo.

River Tees – Highest Recorded Level Paddle

Posted on June 16, 2013 by Unsponsored

After being grounded for two weeks for some appalling behaviour in Corsica, Unsponsored’s little brother River found some big water here in the UK.

Tees – Abbey Rapids – Winston from THE RIVER MILITIA on Vimeo.

Norway I

Posted on June 16, 2013 by Unsponsored

It’s 2 days into my Norway trip, I’ll try and update this as often as I can although internet is a little hard to come by. So far things have been sweet. Yesterday we started with the appropriately named Zambezi section whilst on the way to Voss. After a lovely night camped under the bridge we got on the upper Mykdal (don’t know how to spell it) followed be the upper and racecourse sections of the Brandseth. We also headed over to Money drop which had quite a lot of water. Barney went 1st, got about 5 seconds of down time, his deck popped and we eventually rescued his boat with some big dents in it. The rest of us will probably wait until the levels drop a bit.

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Italy

Posted on June 15, 2013 by Unsponsored

My decision to go to the alps this year was fairly last minute and with plans already in place to spend most of the summer abroad I was originally a bit reluctant to go, however it seemed like too good a trip to pass up so before I knew it I was rushing out of uni the week before term actually finished and was on the road.

We originally intended to head to Austria, but it soon became apparent that this would mean a very wet week with less than ideal water levels for kayaking so by the time we got off the train in France we’d redirected the satnav for Italy and after god knows how many hours of Team America and Candy Crush Saga we arrived to sunny skies and perfect water levels in Valsesia, Italy.

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The Rumor Mill

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Unsponsored

The Rumor Mill from Martyn Butler on Vimeo.

High Atlas Kayaking

Posted on June 12, 2013 by Unsponsored

HIGH ATLAS KAYAKING from WE ARE HUNGRY on Vimeo.

Highland Perthshire’s Adventure Festival – 21st to 23rd June 2013

Posted on June 11, 2013 by Unsponsored

10 days till this years Highland Perthshire Adventure Festival – 21st – 23rd June 2013. For families and individuals from eight years upwards an array of adventures for novice to intermediate level participants. Alongside fantastic presentations from: Cameron McNeish, Jamie Andrew, Simon Yates and the Craghopper Best of Kendal Mountain Film Festival. All activities need to be pre booked but presentation tickets can be preordered or bought on the door.

To book and gain more information see:

www.pkc.gov.uk/adventurefesival

www.facebook.com/perthshiresadventurefestival

Student Boater X 2013

Posted on June 10, 2013 by Unsponsored

The 2013 Student Boater X is taking place on the 22nd of June. For a little flavour of what it is all about check out this write up from Jack Roberston about last years event. Enjoy!

The Student Boater X is the biggest unofficial kayaking event on the student paddling calendar and now officially recognised by Bomb Flow it was going to be the biggest so far. With guaranteed sun, cool alpine flows and a huge selection of prize to be won it wasn’t hard to persuade a few hundred student paddlers that a spontaneous inter uni race down the L’Argentiere-la-Bessee slalom course was a good idea. There were five categories, catering for all levels of paddler. With old boys and girls competing for the Bloater X title and swimmers for the Inflatey X title, everyone else found themselves in a fight for the beginner, intermediate and advanced prizes.

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