This isn't the usual "I'll watch it for 3 minutes while flicking between work and Facebook in my break" sort of online video. Its the "I'm going to sit down with some friends and blankets and some munchies and watch a movie" sort of film. Indeed. Plumbed the tablet into the TV and me and the kids w...

In my experience it comes down to the 'reset' speed afforded by the 'J' over the 'goon' (every days a school day, didn't know that's what it's called!). As a whitewater kayaker first and foremost you tend to think that strokes are about power at crux moments, when canoeing it's generally more about ...

Do you paddle for 'GoPro Glory', or because it makes you smile? You don't have to be pushing the very edges of your ability every single time you sit in a boat to be enjoying yourself. Anyway, kids will only make Grd2/3 a whole load more fun if you get a 16' Canoe for the family! (and they aren't th...

A bit closer to home - The Belford at Fort William

....seriously, some of my medic friends had a great time there and it does match your criteria. Not as 'exotic' as the foreign suggestions but it is some of the best boating in the UK. Pre-work run on the Nevis?

Niall

Don't think about the stall, just get the flatwater cartwheel nailed first.

Once you can swap ends, making it stop is way easier than trying to figure out double pumping and at the same time holding it back a bit to create a stall.

Niall

Edinburgh? Not quite as full on as London, but there's still a few Banks and Funds based there. It is also an awesome city to live in, there's always something going on.

Niall

Good stuff. Great to see the old club still in amongst it!!

Niall

Holey Moley!! That's the last place you want to be when running that drop!!!

I take it all went well enough? [shudder]

Niall

Tesco's Wave, a true NE spate classic.

Niall (feeling slightly nostalgic and a bit old)

I spy with my little eye.... ....."what do you mean, Old Skool?" NSR (or simply BUSA rodeo as it was known back then....) 1999? Note the kick ass Palm AP helmets too. Who needs Sweet Protection when you can have one of those babies? The mighty, homemade, Roto-Duo: http://sphotos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hpho...

"Don't be a show-off. Never be too proud to turn back. There are old pilots and bold pilots, but no old, bold pilots."
– E. Hamilton Lee, 1949

Folks, The 2012 event booklet is available for download . If you're going you'll get a copy in the welcome pack on arrival but it's worth having a gander now. Key changes to last year - Moriston Revised shuttle times on the Moriston (starting the Lower earlier) and the new for this year requirement ...

Folks, The 2012 event booklet is available for download . If you're going you'll get a copy in the welcome pack on arrival but it's worth having a gander now. Key changes to last year - Moriston Revised shuttle times on the Moriston (starting the Lower earlier) and the new for this year requirement ...

Some info now online about the evenings (Fort William Tab):

http://www.canoescotland.org/Recreation ... ivers.aspx

Niall

Here! (Clicky to Google Maps)

Niall

Depends whether you're talking kayaking or open boating? Kayaking, I'm minded to wait till they will be physically big enough, and strong enough to be able to do it. I'm guessing around 7-8 or older at the earliest. The only exception in my mind would be messing about in ponds for a quick short blas...

Ran this for the second time in as many weekends. Can't believe it's taken me 7 years to get round to it since moving within half an hour away!!..... Anyway. Just to add to the existing guide, be wary of trees, currently two portages and several limbo manouveres to be done (thankfully all on slower ...

Get a 'proper' canoe! An inflatable won't be as deep for starters and much harder for everyone to move around/make an emergency grab so probably much easier to have a water incident. With a normal canoe the wee one can hang onto the sides, move around the boat, sit in a seat with Dad or Mum or play ...

Does your ISP not provide you with some web space? If you use a free FTP client like Filezilla you can upload to your web space (getting instructions from your ISP) and then distribute the URL. I use it to host forum Avatars and upload images for Forums that don't need to be anywhere else such as FB...

"Dude, there was A girl at that kayakers party......."

...the Falls of Clyde look to be going off!



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GPDO or (General Permitted Development Order for those not in the know) permits certain types of development without the need of planning permission. This includes Agricultural Buildings below certain size and location criteria amongst others and also applies to "Hill Roads" in the context of upland...

To give an idea in the next 18 months or so I'll be looking to use it on: Wales: Conwy Upper,Middle (maybe Glen), Ogwen, Mawdach, Mellte, Nantgrwyd.... England: Upper Dart, maybe few in the lakes Scotland: Etive, Morriston.... France: Typical classic around Briancon e.g. Guil, Guisanne etc.... With...

I think the WTW colouring is based more around making the "joe average" who may stumble across the site think about themselves relative to the river - rather than simply being seen to be issuing an "instruction" of 'Go' or 'Stop'. Green to Orange defines 'Low but paddleable' (which is not the same a...

Looks good!

To my Wheresthewater accustomed eyes I thought it was going off in the North of England, and then realised the colours seems to go the other way. Could get confusing.......

Niall

Andy, The Event Booklet which is available from the website has good info on other rivers if the Moriston isn't your cup of tea. Equally get a copy of Scottish Whitewater. For starters you can paddle from the Upper down to the Gun Club as many groups who didn't fancy the Upper did this year. Equally...

I got my Nomad 8.5 Brand Spanking New in 2008. Jumped straight in for a first run down a well known (to me) river. The front was very light and the boat hard to control at times as the tail had all the bite and the front had none. The seat was as far back as possible...... ....I moved it forward and...

My teacher recomended that the title of the investigation should be a question and that it should be quite narrow . ≠ Is the construction of the bujagali dam justifiable? 5,000 words isn't that much all said and done. Looking at a Dam with layered social, economic, environmental and engineering imp...

Get another one, stick them together, and try and refine the Roto-duo concept? http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/6369_120532779893_644269893_2190489_3579873_n.jpg NSR 1998(?) From memory key changes would be making the boat shorter than the width of the muncher (gave problems with spins...

On reflection there is nothing new under the sun. How new does stuff have to be for the comp? Nothing in what I'm about to show you is newer than 2001. I count at least 15,000 points thanks to Tom and Flav. Timewarp.... Man I feel old, and as father to a two year old with another incoming, slightly ...