The white water drouth of 2010 is well and truly at an end due to the Ireland catching the tail of hurricane Thomas, the Crana Canoe Weekend has come and gone, the Colligan Gorge Games are only days away. I can’t remember a time when the Irish boating calendar was so jam packed with quality [...]
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Hi, With the 51st Liffey descent around the corner and people hard at the training ready to test themselves against what is billed as one of the top Marathon Races in Europe / World I decided to re post I the highlights program of the 2009 event which was shown on Setanta Sports. It will [...]
Categories: Events
With spring now here and the Irish Winter Kayaking season now over without even a hint of any sustained paddling to be had its time to look ahead and to all the bright evenings and after work boating. Apart from my some what random departure into robotics I have finally gotten around to start making [...]
Categories: Coaching & Instruction, Events
The weekend just past brought about the second Colligan Gorge Games which had a huge number of Irish paddlers travel to the unlikely white water Mecca that is Co. Waterford. This year had the one thing that last years event was missing which was near perfect water levels. The event had both team and individual [...]
Categories: Events
So the long weekend just past was scheduled for the first “Free you Style” event to take place in Kilkenny, sadly a couple of days before the event was to happen the recent very heavy rain fall had washed the weir out and there wasn’t much of a feature left. As the aim of the [...]
Hey, As some of you know this idea was only really conceived in the Sluice car park last Sunday afternoon after a training day organised by Ger O’Reily and to be honest I am surprised how quickly this has snowballed. The premise for this event and the ones that are planned to follow it is [...]
Howdy folks, This is a freestyle coaching day which will have some top quality coaches and freestyle paddlers on hand to help you up your freestyle skills. This is happening on the 25th Oct 2009 The day will be in two parts. The first part will be a series of skills work shops and the [...]
Enjoy the warm bright evenings while they last….. This November Irelands most dynamic playspot brings you something new. Stay tuned for more details. Adrian
Hey, So I have broke the onlyish kinda rule I set my self when I started this blog thin up, “to keep it updated regularly”. The only positive is that I’ve had loads of stuff on as of late which included some boating & good times. Clifden Fun Rodeo 09 So for the few weeks [...]
Categories: Coaching & Instruction, Events, Lifestyle, Locations, News
Hey, As some of you might know I am a member of the Irish Freestyle Committee and that our National Team are in preparations for the upcoming World Freestyle Championships In Thun Switzerland later in the Summer. RTE’s magazine program Nationwide decided to do a a small piece on the Freestyle Team and Freestyle kayaking [...]
