Archive for the ‘playboating’ Category

French Alps 2010

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 [...]

Wave-tastic fun in Lyon

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 [...]

Video Feedback

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 [...]

Demo Boats Now Available

We just wanted to let you know that FlowFree now have access to a small range of the latest white water and freestyle boats for you to demo, including the much sought after 2010 Jackson Star range (2010 Star, AllStar, SuperStar and MonStar all available, plus 2007 Shooting Star). For more information or to reserve [...]

WCA Freestyle Dev – Feb 7th @ the Dee

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, [...]

FF at Paddlefest

FlowFree are proud to announce that we will be providing coaching clinics, workshops and freestyle demonstrations at Paddlefest in Nottingham this March 28-29th. Sessions will include Introduction to Playboating and workshops for nailing your cartwheels and loops. Throughout the weekend we will also be on-hand to answer questions and take bookings, so keep an eye [...]

2nd North Wales Playboat Gathering

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 [...]