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Norway – Day 5

19 June 2013 / / 0 Comments

Today has been eventful. I’ll begin at last night when Rainey made a bold claim that he would attempt a kickflip off of Moneydrop on the Stranda. This soon trended on Facebook thanks to Sam Ellis and the peer pressure began to build. Anyway we met up with Rainey this morning to find that he had come to a compromise with his growing fanbase and would be running Moneydrop fully naked in his playboat later in the day.

First off though we headed to the lower Myrkdal for our second run this trip. It was similar flows to yesterday but this time a little less nerve racking as we knew the lines. It was all going so well, the sun was out and we were all loving it.

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Beyond the Drop – Pro Kayaking Video Presented By Teva

18 June 2013 / / 0 Comments

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

17 June 2013 / / 0 Comments

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

17 June 2013 / / 0 Comments

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

16 June 2013 / / 0 Comments

A very well crafted movie. Well worth watching.

Punching Giants from Lakesboaters on Vimeo.

River Tees – Highest Recorded Level Paddle

16 June 2013 / / 0 Comments

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

16 June 2013 / / 0 Comments

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

15 June 2013 / / 0 Comments

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

14 June 2013 / / 0 Comments

The Rumor Mill from Martyn Butler on Vimeo.

High Atlas Kayaking

12 June 2013 / / 0 Comments

HIGH ATLAS KAYAKING from WE ARE HUNGRY on Vimeo.

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

11 June 2013 / / 0 Comments

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

10 June 2013 / / 0 Comments

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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