The magic Number

As promised the final installment of last weekends Hurley fest!

Lowri Davies Talks at Riverside

Lowri Davies is best known as one of the World’s top female freestyle kayakers including being European Champion. However, making small boats spin on every axis while flying through the air is not her only paddling proficiency…

Last year Lowri was selected as one of 8 top white water paddlers for the British Universities Kayak Expedition to explore some of the wild rivers of Siberia, Mongolia and Kazakhstan. The team paddled big volume multi-day rivers through inescapable gorges and ticked off first descents. However, they faced as many obstacles off the water; guns, bribery, arrests, and car crashes to name but a few!

Come and share Lowri’s life and adventures
paddling for 10 weeks in Central Asia
as the only female on the team...
Thursday 11th December from 7pm at Riverside
Tickets £5 over 19’s; £3 under 19’s – advanced booking only

Riverside Centre Oxford
Donnington Bridge
Oxford OX4 4AZ
T ++44 (0) 1865 248673
E riversidecentre2@btconnect.com
W www.riversideoxford.co.uk

A Hurley Weekend

Still recovering from a couple of long sessions at Hurley. Arrived saturday to find it on 2 gates with no one else around... bonus! Wave was flushy but if you got it right you could fly.



After a night of heavy rain Sunday provided us with a pretty good 3 gates and the appropriate crowd! Great little session with everyone trying out all sorts of stuff.
Attached is a vid of Saturday... the one of sunday will be up soon... enjoy :0)

Matt

Winter playboating pictures...

Well, i thought i might as well put up some pictures from sessions past and present from Hurley weir.


Matt Throwing down


Over the last few months we've had some sweet water levels, but most of the time we've been paddling rather than taking pictures... anyway here's a few.


Me and Hector - double surfin'



Hugh Going for the Airscrew!


Blunt!

When the water levels drop around here we all mission down to Chertsey weir, not very many photos taken but here's Hugh pretending to do something.



Enjoy the pictures...
More to come very soon!

Finn

Escape from the Valley

Well with all the non existant water that the valley has been suffering Me, Finn, Hugh Graham and Paul Scopes decided to brave the North and go to HPP for the day.

After managing to negotiate several psycho lorry drivers and some dodgy last minute junction decisions we rocked up at the whitewater course.

The course has changed a lot since I was last there, but we found a couple of pretty good spots to session around the course. The inlet wave is great fun, easy to set up on and maintain. Finn considered this no sport at all renaming it losers hole. He went off in search of pastures new- me being old and stuck in my ways sessioned the top wave till I thought my head would explode- proper cold!

Finn, Hugh and Paul spent most of the session at a small wave just above the looping pool. Good little hole that got a bit stickier as the level dropped. The hole rewarded good technique and as Finns vid shows you could throw some pretty big loops in it. They then moved onto the muncher- not as good as I remember but Finn nailed a couple of big mcnasties in it and Hugh was getting close too.

Check out the vids. The first is of my top wave session (gratuitous amount of me I am afraid).



The second is the guys. Mainly on the small hole above the looping pool, but also has footage of the muncher and losers hole. Enjoy!


Matt

Welcome to the Riverside Shop!

We have some exciting new arrivals in the shop, the Pyranha Z.ONE and Karnali arrived with great expectations on Thursday. The RRP on them is £649 so they are great as a first boat. Why not pop in and give one a try? we have a demo boat in each. The Karnali is currently only available in large and the Z.ONE in medium, as soon as the other sizes arrive i will let you know.....

The Mens Streetwear.......

Also new in store, the 2009 range of Sweet Streetwear, including the ladies and mens range of hoodies, tees, shirts and hats.

The 2009 helmet range is due to arrive in April, including Strutters, Rockers and the new Wanderer so watch this space......



The Ladies Streewear....

Shop Opening Hours.....

Tuesday 11am - 7pm

Wednesday 11am - 7pm

Thursday 11am - 8pm

Friday 10am - 6pm

Saturday 9am - 5pm
Sunday 10am - 1pm

All shop profits are put back into the Riverside youth club activities, staffing and trips......