Both Lee valley and the nene have “house” clubs you can join based at their sites if nobody can suggest one closer to your home. The LV Paddlesports Club requires you to have passed your Legacy assessment to go on the course on club nights (Wednesday): http://www.leevalleypaddlesportsclub.org/?page...

Hi folks, can I fit the Pyranha thigh hookers to a Burn mk2? Thanks.

If you're a beginner, Nene Valley (Northampton) is the better option. It's Grade 2 except for one Grade 3 drop, and good for developing skills such as eddying out. It's quite shallow though - if possible, restrict your rolling practice to the deep pool below the Grade 3 drop! Lots of beginners padd...

Hi, I am in a club over this way but sadly they don't want to do artificial courses, that club is about an hr away, it's my closest lol, joining another is a possibility, it's finding one...

Hi folks. I have recently started with WW, having done the Intro to WW at LV and I'm pretty much hooked, FYI, I can do a 1:5 roll ratio in still water lol I cannot use LV until i have more experience and able to pass the Legacy assessment, but to do that I have to take the next course as there is no...

An oldish thread i know and i see that after CT posted it pretty much died off, sorry... We could have a proper debate about charging if we knew how much the site costs to rent, how much the water costs, how much the commercial activity generates and what else is spent (all of these on CW members be...

The majority of cranked shafted paddles will have a joint in the middle, these will be reinforced with a spigot which will extend internally through the joint. They are strong, light and a lot siffer than the desperados, but still would not advise "Bracing off the bottom" with any paddle....

Oh well, looks like you'll have to wait for an introduction to WW course. No reason you can't do it in autumn or winter - after all, in the UK, winter is the white water season. It's just that capsizing is a little less "fun" in cold water :) There is that, plus, you can wear your dry sui...

After watching your video from the sluice the other day, I didn't think you had much to worry about. Good news re. the roll. If you want to do a white water course at LV, I'd recommend booking it now, before winter comes. It's nicer to learn in warmish water! Thanks, Franky, I couldnt believe how w...

Turns out that i was anxious about nothing with regards to the LV Lake Assessment, i may not have mentioned that i was ;) turns out the Lake Assessment is just a paddle to the buoy (20m at most) and a self-rescue (tip and eject) and swim with ya boat back to the bank (steps). Although i could have g...

From what I can work out, the difference between high and low brace is using the power face for high brace to give a bit more power, this will normally occur when either the low brace fails or you've reached the tipping point where the low brace will have little effect. That's my take on it, I coul...

I thought the high brace was deprecated. It can result in shoulder dislocation and so far as I know doesn't have any advantage over a low brace, particularly if using an active blade. I can't remember the last time I did a high brace. I was taught that you shouldn't use the high brace, and yet I've...

The mill right in the middle of Thetford has some decent flow with eddies either side. HI and thanks, I only learnt of the mill about a month ago, I only go there for Tesco or PaH as a rule, but been over twice since hearing about it and its just been a trickle lol August probably isn't the best mo...

I thought the high brace was deprecated. It can result in shoulder dislocation and so far as I know doesn't have any advantage over a low brace, particularly if using an active blade. I can't remember the last time I did a high brace. Hi, no not deprecated, just altered so you're not over reaching ...

For your enjoyment, this is what the weir the club plays at has been like 95% of the year, its a short video, one i uploaded just to show and outtake from my high brace practice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THKk-uwTDdQ&ab_channel=Bashy and here's a failed roll from yesterday lol FYI, i total...

I would feel l happier if I could roll before I hit the Legacy. The only eddie's I had I go on are the ones at weirs, I live in Norfolk, it's flat, we don't have any white water, so I can't even work in it to get at least some experience. I live in Cambridgeshire, so I was in a similar position to ...

There might not be much in the way of whitewater in Norfolk. But there are some places you can practice crossing eddy lines and ferry gliding. The mill right in the middle of Thetford has some decent flow with eddies either side. HI and thanks, I only learnt of the mill about a month ago, I only go...

Absolutely no need to be able to roll to pass the legacy assessment. Doing my kayak one I swam 4 times, couldn't even do a T-rescue and passed! It's more about control, hitting a few eddies and not running anyone over. Wasn't even asked to roll when I did it in a canoe and didn't capsize either. Wh...

A further query if I may, having watched a good few legacy assessment videos, it appears that the roll is mandatory, do they teach this on the intro to white water, as its only 4 I'm thinking not? Perhaps I'd best get it dialed in before I even think about the intro course... Maybe the roll is mand...

A further query if I may, having watched a good few legacy assessment videos, it appears that the roll is mandatory, do they teach this on the intro to white water, as its only 4 I'm thinking not? Perhaps I'd best get it dialed in before I even think about the intro course...

When I did my Legacy assessment they said that the first couple of minutes were actually the Lake assessment. We were asked to put on spraydecks, capsize and either swim to the side or roll, and once everyone had ticked that off we were told to paddle across the lake to the start of the Legacy cour...

Hi Bashy, Apologies for my assumptions - I was just going by what I found on the LV web site. I don't know what a lake-only assessment is like. If you've got your 3-star, even if a long time go, I'd have thought you'd be fine. The lake is very sedate. There is some moving water (Grade 1) in the are...

An interesting first look at a potentially very damaging problem to the kayak industry. Would be interested to hear how regular you are using it and what intensity of activity you are putting it through. A one time submergence test doesn't really say all too much about reliability and longevity. Yo...

Looking at the Lee Valley booking pages - there is no lake assessment, only a Legacy/Lake assessment. So it sounds as though you will be paddling on the Legacy course. I took my Legacy assessment back in 2014, so things might have changed since then. But here's what I remember... The assessors will...

Hi folks, I am wanting to progress into WW so I have booked a lake assessment at LV, just wondering what to expect as I cant find any YT videos for the lake assessments, its not often ya cant find a video on a subject lol. I am going to take my Ethos 9 as thats what I have been using all year, I am ...

As the title says, I have already spent a small fortune this year on outer clothing, paddle etc so buying a decent dry suit was off the table, even a used one. I watched a video on YT about buying one from China, i am sceptical of cheap Chinese stuff but after seeing River King's video I decided to ...

Thanks for the replies guys, if there is one thing this WS Ethos 9 doesn't like it's water inside, it becomes pretty unstable even with a small amount (inch or so deep). As i had already spent a small fortune on outer clothing and then the paddle, so sadly a decent dry suit was out of my grasp but t...

Unless it's like the one I had that snapped in the middle when I went over on a river & tried to brace against the bottom on it's first day out of the wrapping.... Werner weren't interested.... All my other Werners have survived similar encounters repeatedly, so maybe I was unlucky..... It spli...

When they give the waterproofing as 10m an 20m, it's a measure of the porosity of the fabric itself, not the whole garment. Thanks, but as I said, it's quite misleading for the uninitiated. And I'm still none the wiser as to where to position the top of the spray deck tube, should it be over the to...

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Mon Jul 03, 2023 12:06 pm

Rubberman has done all mine..never looked back!!!

Thank you