a wonderful country that offers so much! The right place for Jürgen and me after a quite stressful and moving year. We used the opportunity to go back where we feel at home, in our kayaks and in the nature. What’s nicer then sitting on the see, waiting for the amazing wave and feeling the sunshine on your body?

A wet shower is a wonderful place for some animals, so you better get used to share it with a beautiful frog.

With open eyes there is so much to discover, while paddling through the jungle.

You better be careful when you reach the lower flat parts of the section ;-).

Uganda was one of those far of destinations that captured my imagination from an early age, with warm water, big rapids and awesome play waves, it truly is the perfect way to escape the cold (and dry) British winter.

The video of my trip is below,

See you on the water,

Bren

… also known as the NSR, was bigger and better than ever this year! The National Student Rodeo, held in Nottingham every year is a great event with over 1000 competitors of all abilities. Everyone gets a chance to paddle and compete (if not too hung over), even non-students can enter the Old School competition, and the Saturday night party is the stuff of legends!

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The Shiva is a boofster like no other, and I’d been waiting to get it on some stouts for a bit.  Finally rain came and so did the killer boofs that inhabit a special place called Big Creek. Upper Big Creek is like a wet dream to the Shiva, the yin to its yang, the jelly to its peanut butter, the icing to its cake. No better feeling than riding up smooth granite into a full release, from the water that is.

Check out this little video I made back in the fall, including some of the bigger rivers and drops around Boone, NC. Includes North Harper Falls, Trashcan Falls, Watauga Gorge, Gragg Prong, and Linville Gorge. Enjoy!

I’ll go to class next week!

Dragstrip Photo by Eric Chance

Cheers – Clay

Pyranha’s annual DartFest at the River Dart Country Park is always good fun! This year was no exception, check out the video to see what happened…  Slightly low water levels did not stop paddlers getting some great coaching from Chris Eastabrook’s renowned confidence building courses and Liquid Logistics improvers river trip.

Lots of people dropped by the stand to check out the first sighting of the new freestyle machine… the JED. The Loki was also out to play and of course the Burn, Shiva, Varun… were there too!

Off the water in the evening and it was over to the team’s female paddlers for insight and entertainment. Paula Pridham presented her intriguing research on fear in whitewater padding. Most importantly though she also shared her experiences and expert advice on how to manage and overcome that fear. Fran Kohn then gave us the latest from her recent trip to Chile with a video of one of the great rivers she paddled out there.

And then we danced…

The brand new Pyranha Jed!

Loki and Jed on the stand!

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As a round-up to our Colombia expedition I thought I would do something a little different and give you a summary of our trip from our boats’ point of view – enjoy!

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