Last month I returned to competitive freestyle with a bang, bagging myself a spot on the 2012 GB Freestyle Team. I was particularly chuffed with beating the current World Champ on Sunday’s competition The full team has just been announced on the GB Team website if you’re interested. The date and venue of the 2012 [...]
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On February 7th I’ll be talking about a variety of my adventures from around the globe as part of the High Sport Winter Lecture series, based in Shrewsbury. I’ll share tales from Siberia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Uganda, Norway and more… and since I’ll be fresh back from paddling in Colombia I should have some exciting [...]
TrywerynFest : a weekend of coaching clinics, free demo boats, trade stands and epicly hilarious events. Of course, we were there in force, with FlowFree coaches claiming several podium finishes and running coaching clinics but most importantly having a jolly old time! Lowri does some playboat coaching at the newly improved Campsite Wave (aka Super [...]
A few weeks ago FlowFree helped to support the Thames Valley Freestyler’s 4th birthday event, held in Cardiff. The day was full of events designed to be fun for all abilities with most prizes and encouragement going to those who gave it their all and made other people smile. Here’s a short video from the [...]
Last weekend I went across to North Ireland’s Tollymore centre for the CANI Paddlefest – which turned out to be an excellent weekend that got people boating, trying new things and provided inspiration for paddlers of all disciplines, ages and abilities. I kicked off proceedings on Friday with a photo slideshow of the expedition to Georgia [...]
The Canoe Association of Northern Ireland run an annual Paddlefest at Tollymore, near Belfast. The theme of this year’s paddlefest is expedition paddling and I’ve been asked to go over and give a talk about my most recent expedition to Georgia. Over the weekend I will also be delivering some of the expedition themed workshops [...]
Back in September, the first ever Tryweryn Festival was held – one of the first events to involve almost all the UK market’s manufacturers. With loads of demo boats available, coaching sessions and loads of fun events all weekend – this promised to be an excellent event. I was there running some FlowFree coaching sessions [...]
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 [...]
This weekend coming (Jan 30-31st), FlowFree are helping to organise the first ever Canoe Wales Universities Competition and party weekend. The weekend will involve a range of disciplines with the idea being to give people the opportunity to try disciplines they may otherwise never get to try while allowing those with experience to showcase their [...]
The first WCA Freestyle Development Day of 2009 will be at Mile End Mill on the Dee, where we will be based throughout the day. Park in the White Water Active / Paddleworks car park as usual and meet at 9.30am in the cafe. Mile End Mill is ideal for aspirant playboaters of all abilities, [...]
