Last week we held our third Lyon playboating course, this year using an additional slalom course with even more features to practice on. One of our students, Chris Hull, wrote this report from his experience of the week. – After weeks of trying in vein to evolve a set of gills and failing to do [...]

Paddling and MTB coaching from FlowFree & Campbell Coaching 20-21st August : Llangollen We have noticed that a lot of women are paddling and getting out on their bikes too. So we thought, how about a female only weekend based around Llangollen where you can get some top paddling and MTB coaching tips from two [...]

For a while now we have been running a “Get Your Club Playing” scheme, the idea of which is to enthuse clubs about playboating and show how basic playboating can be introduced at any flatwater session. We provide inspirational demonstrations by GB Team paddlers, expert coaches and a load of demo playboats. This is a [...]

Earlier this year we spent several weeks in the French Alps, where we had great water levels and super-hot sunshine almost every day We ran a variety of trips, bespoke courses and guided river runs around the Briancon / Embrun / Guil / Ubaye area – confidence boosters, white water skills, river leadership skills and [...]

We are now offering clubs the chance to book us for their own pool sessions, evening meets or weekend trips. We’ll come directly to your club session so no special arrangements need to be made for the club. We can run flatwater playboating sessions (with demo boats), rolling clinics or any variation of our usual [...]

Here’s a little write up sent to us by one of our trainee coaches, Fran Kohn. So after the obligatory long drive, multiple fried breakfasts and dodgy ‘value’ French confectionary, we arrived at our destination of Hawaii Sur Rhone for an Introduction to Big Wave Paddling course with Lowri Davies from FlowFree. We arrived late [...]

Hello and welcome to the latest FlowFree newsletter! Well February and March were very busy indeed here at FlowFree. We’ve run trips abroad, freestyle courses, safety courses, week-long bespoke courses, BCU courses and white water skills courses of all varieties. And our coaches have been just as busy in their spare time: slalom competitions (see [...]

We like to give our clients that little bit extra. That’s why if you come on one of our courses, we not only give you dedicated and expert tuition with plenty of feedback on the day – we also email you full written feedback with a summary of what we covered and a clear action [...]

We’ve made booking with us even easier! You can now book instantly online using paypal or a credit / debit card. Once you’ve paid, just complete the online booking form on the page you are taken back to and you’re done. No need to print anything off. No need to post anything. No need to [...]

Well it’s been quite a while since we’ve put anything up on the blog; but that’s not to say we haven’t been busy! With degrees, competitions and most recently trips to Norway and France the FlowFree team have barely had a chance to catch their breath! To see some impressive photos and read tales from [...]