Polo, Club Championships

This weekend saw the Canoe Polo Club Championships held at Hatfield Waterpark, I went along and played with the Wildcatz team that I’ve been doing a bit of training with. We were a little under par on Saturday, partly because we hadn’t played as a team before, but we picked up over the weekend [...]

Local Stuff, a weekend in Bangor

Funky tunes and throwing shapes on Friday night, pot of tea, squirting at the Lledr spot, tea and cakes, beer and lies, car gets vandalised, gin and grenadine, jumping, dancing, singing, pot of tea, headache, lounging and shredding at Stanley, pies, tea at Tom’s, fix the car, pot of tea. Welcome to [...]

I’m big in Japan

Well, that’s probably an exageration, what I really mean is, I’ve just had an article published in Playboating@JP, Japan’s dedicated whitewater kayaking magazine. The “River Trip of India” on the cover below refers to an article about last year’s Tsarap and Zanskar trip. I’m looking forward to my copy arriving on the doorstep, [...]

Italia

Reports from Peidmonte this year looked pretty grim, the snow pack was low, meaning that all the snow melt rivers would be low and the notoroiusly short Italian creeking season would be shorter than ever. Good job then that the region experienced torrential rain to keep the rivers at a tasty level.

Easter in Nepal – the Thule Bheri River

One of the things that I like about foreign kayaking trips is that I get to see new places, meet new people, and learn new things. One of the new things that I learnt on this particular trip is the meaning of the phrase “continuous grade 4 paddling”. The educator in this case [...]

Lazy

I’ve been pretty lazy about updating the site since I got back from Nepal a week or so back. This is at least in part due to me having an awful lot of work to catch up on. All this work has left me tired and in need of another break so I’ll [...]