The glorious North East was the venue for today’s Park Jam.
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I have taken around 2k images on the North Tyne today, or #thetynebezi as its now know. At 1.84 on the gauge the river was running well following rain last night and release from Kiedler water. The images were taken using a professional full frame camera. The images posted below are low resolution.
The Tyne Tour is one of the best kayak/canoe events in the UK. Since its origins as the Mike Jones Rally the Tyne tour has become a firm favourite of mine.
Most paddlers will stick to the area around Hexham and Tyne Green but there are several other stretches of water in the local area that are worth looking at. This post is not designed to be a definitive guide in any way but is intend to offer a few ideas so you can maximise your paddle time and choice if attending the tour. So here we have it The Tyne Tour – A Brief Water Guide.
Camping, food and retailers are all based at Tyne Green right on the river bank in Hexham. Hexham is large market town so there are plenty of shops, pubs and takeaways if required.
The main river for the tour is the North Tyne. Local canoe/kayak clubs provide safety cover on the largest whitewater section of the North Tyne at Rescue Rock. Each Saturday of the Tyne Tour you will find me sat on Rescue Rock taking thousands of still images.
Continue readingIt’s back for Nov 2019!
We are excited to announce the dates for Bren’s Park Jam 2019!
There will be plenty of giveaways from us at Palm, dewerstone and Pyranha Kayaks as well as signed posters by Bren Orton. We hope to see you all there!
Continue readingThe Ladakh River Festival, Lardo, Indus. On the famous intimidating class 4 LARDO section.
With an altitude over 3000m the event punished those unprepared.
Dane Jackson has shared his North Fork 2019 winning run. Awesome.
If you missed it at the weekend here is the ICF Boater X or Extreme Slalom world cup from Lee Valley.
The question is why have they felt the need to rebrand it as Extreme Slalom. Is everything better if it is Extreme?
Ladakh River Festival, August 2019. The competition will be on the famous lardo section of the Indus. Huge waves and holes.
Unleashed – Stage 1 presented by Jackson Kayak went down in the Unleashed Big Trick format, meaning that the athletes were split into two heats, each heat was given a two-hour session.
Huge tricks where thrown and some insane wipe outs where had. The athletes were judged on their top three tricks, scoring combo tricks as one, and rewarding air, difficulty and style in order to determine a winner.
Continue readingThe 2019 Welsh Open Freestyle is taking place on the 5th of May at the Cardiff International Whitewater course.
Here it is part 2 of the National Student Rodeo 2019 gallery.
Here is the first part of our National Student Rodeo 2019 gallery. Loads more to follow.
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