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This is just a quick one, Only the other evening I was out with the local Kayak Club here in Kilkenny ( Kilkenny Aqua Canoe Club) for the first time in a while, just out with some of the young guys who have an interest in freestyle and white water boating as a whole. Last [...]

Don’t do places to learn the basics of free style kayaking, but if they did they might start with somewhere like Kilkenny!     I’m sure most paddlers have heard of the river Nore which flows through Kilkenny City but I’d be fairly certain only a small few are aware of the little gem of [...]

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

How to double pump 101 from Adrian Shanahan on Vimeo. Hi, A few days back on of the guys from the UKRGB Bren (aka Peakfreak) posted up that there are no videos online that just explain the “double pump” and any that try assume too much previous knowledge from the person looking to learn. I [...]

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 [...]

Just a quick note on this: So of you may know I am currently part of the Irish Freestyle Committee this year and part of our job is to help promote freestyle kayaking and help introduce new people to the sport. I decided to run a “river freestyle” training  day on the river Boyne. Now [...]

Hey, So as of late there has seems to be allot of new folks getting back into freestyle kayaking in Dubling and starting to make more use of the play-spot “Sluice”. While it may not be world class with a bit of time and effort & getting to know the place it can be a [...]