The TED talk series are generally awesome so it’s great to see that an increasing number of kayakers are starting to appear on the line.
This one from Emily Jackson is well worth watching.
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When you start your paddling career progression is often very rapid. Skill acquisition is quick and you develop the technique required to safely get you down a piece of water. After you have been paddling for a while it is easy to hit a plateau. Moving past this can seem quite difficult but a few changes or adaptations can help you to continue to make progress/develop.
Consider where you mainly paddle. Change venue if you can. Try a new piece of water.
Paddle more. It’s a simple step that can really speed up your progress.
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A creek race where you race in teams of two, provide your own safety cover and the run includes a tricky portage. Sounds like the Robe Race.
Elliott Davidson has put together this great edit of this years U23 Canoe Slalom World Championships in Brazil.
Spring time means you get to find out how bad your wrist and neck gaskets have degraded over the winter.
Spring time also means Robe Race and for 2015 the Xavier Engle Memorial Robe Race.
There were murmurs that the race might be shifted by a weekend, as there was no rain in the forecast the week leading up to the race. But level bumped up to just below 5.2 feet and by Friday afternoon we knew how we were going to be spending our Saturday; racing Robe Canyon and praying not to take home the Gnome!
It’s an easy template for a race: paddle as hard as you can for roughly 3.5 miles and crush around 40 rapids with as little carnage as you can manage. Then, just for shits giggles, throw a hideous portage in the middle of the course to see just how flexible those ankles really are…
Almost 10 years prior the FatCats dropped into the Cispus with high flows and hole bunch of naivety. It was a long, burly hike out but not this time!!
One of the greatest stretches of whitewater in the UK is under real threat.
The German company RWE NPower, in association with Dulas (a North Wales renewable energy consultants) are planning to dam and divert up to 75% of the flow above Conwy Falls (Penmachno Bridge) for the purposes of small scale hydroelectric power generation. The section under threat is known to paddlers as the “Fairy Glen”. To put this into perceptive the Conwy only needs 10m³/s of water for it to be paddled. The scheme will divert 6m³/s of water through a 2km long pipe. This will significantly reduce the number of days per year that the Conwy will be at the minimum paddling level.
Liquidlogic have been putting in fair bit of design time on the development of new kayaks over the last 18 months. As well as the Flying Squirrel, Braaap and Mullet there is also a short playboat being developed.
This edit shot with GoPro equipment shows Pion Stéphane testing the new Liquidlogic kayak prototype on the “Charnay and La Malate” waves.
I was sent this great idea via the Unsponsored FB page by Brian Taylor.
A small piece of bungee and a small piece of cordage can be used as shown to keep the gate of a carabiner open.
Great times on the Sokna last Sunday. Smashed a quick edit today. Hope you enjoy and thanks everyone for some good laughs.
Beater Tuesday – an after work smash and grab at Aysgarth Falls, with a little added excitement….
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