Riverside Shop Christmas Party! Tuesday 15th December

The Riverside Shop warmly invites you to come in and join us for a Mince Pie and some Christmas cheer and pick up some Christmas present bargains for yourself or loved ones.
We offer gift wrapping presents and storing them until Christmas Eve!

So drop in from 6pm till late!

L'Aventure Alpine 2009

Finally after massive delay, it's time for a write up of a most excellent Don's expedition to the French Alps.

It all began with a huge amount of planning. Youth Oppertunity Funds were applied for, meeting attended, and a massive amount of work had to be done before we could even think about going. Finally though, after what seemed like a monumentous wait, we were off, to begin a 789 mile trip to here;



The wonderful Camping du Lac, which would be our base camp for the week.




Ahh, just like home.

Over the next few days we tacked 3 sections of the durance, played on slalom courses, playboated in the Rabioux wave (to which the footage has mysteriously disappeared), practiced our skills and paddled the challenging Ubaye Racecourse (so challenging we didn't have any time to take any pictures.)

After a few days it was time to move on to Sault Brenaz, a wonderfull whitewater course for practising many different aspects of paddling. People were learning about ferry gliding, Surfing waves, paddling inflatable canoes (hotdogs) and some people passed a 3 star assessment (Well done!)



Ashley and Portia Surf a Hotdaog




Connor's Robson Photo

All too soon it was time to go home, but we won't forget the good times had, friends made and things learnt will not be forgotten



Group Photo!




Time to begin the big drive home

We'd all like to say a huge thanks to everyone who has helped, in whatever way to make this trip possible. We couldn't have gone without you. If you haven't already had enough of our trip yet, check out the video!




Stay cool

-Louis

Juniors attend BCU Southern Region Wavehopper Sprint!

BCU Southern Region Wavehopper Sprint event
Newbury, 15th November

After a couple of training sessions in appalling weather on Saturday, Riverside's Wavehopper team enjoyed a fabulous day at the races in Newbury in glorious sunshine on Sunday.

The event involved two 500 metre sprints down the millstream, under the bridge below the lock and millpond to the finishing line outside the Waterside Centre. They then had to paddle their boats back upstream against a strong current to the lock and portage them back up to the starting line for the next competitors to use.

Racing against 8 other teams from the Southern Region Riverside achieved 4th position overall. Everyone did really well with a special commendation to Jona for coming 3rd in the under 12s and Sophia for coming 4th in the under 14s. A brilliant result for their first race in Wavehoppers.

Team Wavehopper:

Kieran Husband
Jona Boender
Owain Harris
Carl Gregory
Jake Woodward

Jay Boender
Erin Keenan
Nicole Head
Sophia Frost

Many thanks must go to the team, their parents and supporters and to the coaches who made this event possible.

Jennifer Clough

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.