Riverside Shop Sale 21/22nd November

Dear All,

This weekend will an excellent sale of Kayak and canoe equipment. Everything in store will have 20% off plus loads of items at special prices.

Come in and find the special bargains and enter our limited 120 ticket raffle to win a Playboat.

We will open at 9am so get in early and grab yourself a bargain!

See you then.

Chris

Lunar Orbits

So this is the next vid for tvdfreestylers... check it out and tell us what you think!



Enjoy!

Cancelled

Unfortunatley we have had to cancel the Leo Hoare talk this evening, but he will be returning in the New year to give his talk then. If you would like further information on Leo, please visit his website Getafix.com

Apologies for the late notice.

Chris

Evening Talk

The Riverside Shop is please to announce that:
Leo Hoare
will be giving a talk on his Greenland adventures
‘Fresh Fish and Icebergs’ on
Wednesday 21st October 2009
At 7.30pm

Cost of the talk will be £4.00 (adult) and £1.00 (Young People) with all proceeds going towards the Young people at the Riverside Centre.

Tickets available from the Riverside Shop or to reserve a place email:
riversidecentre2@btconnect.com


Back then slalom was the thing to do. Leo competed to a high level and represented Great Britain for 6 years. In those years he raced and trained all over the world, achieved a fourth place in the junior worlds, a place in the squad for the Barcelona Olympics and many wins at junior internationals. He finished chasing sticks in 1992 after appearing on the programme "Paddles Up", and being ranked in the top 10 UK seniors. From 1992 to 1994 he coached the Welsh junior and senior squads and the British intermediate slalom teams.
The seed had been planted to see and experience other places and cultures at an early age and discovering the open canoe and sea kayak has allowed him to go on some amazing adventures: A solo circumnavigation of Easter Island in a 10-year-old White water boat, the Rio Grande in Mexico, kayak safaris in Africa and expeditions to S.E Greenland, Norway and New Zealand is just some of the adventures he has had.
Leo loves people; That's why he feels that coaching is the best job in the world, and paddling is and always will be in his blood.
Leo has contributed chapters to the BCU Canoe Kayak Handbook and the BCU Coaching Handbook, and made smaller contributions to the books Top Tips for Coaches and Canoe Games. Recently Leo has been involved with the development of the new UKCC coaching awards, producing resources, running pilots and fine tuning the structure.
Leo co-directed and produced the DVD Sea Kayak Safety with paddling partner Olly Sanders.
Before setting up his own paddling company Getafix he worked for Plas Y Brenin for 7 years and freelanced for centres country wide providing staff training.

Hurley is NOT open.

But I made a video ages ago - when Hurley was open.



6 Months ago.

Finn

Finn & Hugh go to 'The' Uganda

"Oh look a danger sign I can take a photo of! How original am I?!"

Ah yes, another post - documenting what can only be described as a momentously messy trip to Uganda. If you want to know what Uganda is all about read either Hugh or Matt's posts from earlier this year; I feel they do a great job of summing up something that I can't be bothered to sum up again!


Hugh going Clean!

Finn going Clean!


The River running is 'grand so'

Relaxing, maxing all cool at Eden Rock

Queued up for Club wave

Nile Special wave was also 'Grand so'



In order: Finn Killin' it, Finn Killin' it some more, Hugh... not so much.

Heading out for another days paddling


Uganda is amazing - go before the best bits are gone... (The top section of the white Nile, not bits of Uganda itself. Don't worry.)

Jump on that 'safety assured' van! No, not insured, assured.

Ok, so the trip in one sentance...

Amazing kayaking lifestyle with a drop of confusion, stumbling about, adrenaline and Japati.

"Oooh ah ah ah ah!"

Take it easy,
Finn & Hughberry


P.S. Expect the video to be up in the next few weeks, there have been some major set backs...

Hi just a wee post to say thanks to Sam for all of his hard work over the past couple of months and to also wish him the best at Uni. I have rearranged the shop slightly... More soon.

Chris