After the success of the first gathering that saw 27 people braving the cold on the Dee… a mixture of novices to GB team, C1 and K1, men and ladies, old and young all having fun messing about on the river. Brandon was elected “winner” of that gathering for general fun attitude and smileyness and [...]
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Inspired by the old Sunday league at Tryweryn and the current league held on the Thames Weirs, an informal playboating league is being set up in North Wales. The basic premise being to get people together to have a play and help and encourage each other while having fun! Times and places for a playboating [...]
I have some hot news for you… I am able to release to you first, here on FlowFree, the dates for WCA Freestyle Development days over the next 6 months or so. Full details of locations and times etc will be announced for each one as they approach. Keep an eye on this website for [...]
The next WCA Freestyle Development weekend was due to be the 15th of November. With Stanley Embankment being shut due to works on the bridge (see previous post), I have made a new plan. We’ll now be running a single day session at Chester Weir on the 8th November with a more advanced session at Tryweryn on December [...]
Quote: Contractors for Railtrack are undertaking repairs to the bridge which forms the wave at Stanley. The tunnel is closed for 4-7weeks from 16th October. This means that the wave will likely be out of action until early December. WCA have been assured that the wave will not change as a result of these engineering [...]
All of Tom’s photos are online at http://www.digibug.com/tlphotography/ – select the album “WCA Freestyle Development – Llandysul”. Full high resolution copies and prints are available to order. The video from the weekend is online here – Matt Cooke’s put it on facebook so you may have to ‘make him your friend’ before you can view [...]
The aim of the WCA’s Freestyle Development weekends are two-fold. Firstly, we want to provide opportunities for all paddlers to try out freestyle and get quality coaching without cost being a barrier. Secondly, we want to take those with talent into a Welsh Freestyle Squad for further development and to represent Wales at competitions across [...]
Any budding freestyle paddlers, or white water paddlers wanting to give freestyle a try, should come along to one of the WCA Development Weekends I’m organising. It’d be great to see as many youngsters there as possible! Dates so far: Sept 27-28th – Llandysul Nov 15-16th – Stanley Embankment, Anglesey Drop me a line if [...]
