Sunday, 20 May 2012

Lisburn City Paddlers 1*/2* Course

Last weekend it was the last session of a six week 1*/2* course run by Lisburn City Paddlers. I Hadn't been to any of the previous weeks but i thought i would go and be media man for the day, here's what i came up with....







Video of the session:

 
Ali

Monday, 7 May 2012


Just wanted to put up a few of my favourite paddling photos from the last while.

Enjoy



Myself at shaws.


Mum at shaws

New jefe on maiden voyage


Just thought the water looked cool!

Paddling with mum

New JEFE Chico!!!












Ali

Saturday, 5 May 2012

CANI paddlefest Moville 2012

23rd-25th march 2012
CANI paddlefest
Movile

This year paddlefest was held in movile in donegal, the forcast looked to be in favour for sea kayakers and the surfers, but, with the recent lack of rain, it was set to be a scrapey weekend for the white water lads. The plan this year was a river/sea trip on saturday and then two clinics on sunday. On saturday morning myself and all the other white water boaters (plus a couple of great coaches up from ICU) headed for the mourne, known for keeping it's water level. it was pretty low but enough to give us some fun, with the fisheries having some challenging eddies. i was able to try out the JEFE CHICO, what a boat! (this weekend resulted in the purchase of one!) On the sunday roughly the same group of people headed for the mourne again. i ended up doing 'dynamic WW paddling' with Mr Olaf Obsommer, and WW safety and rescue with Dave Caroll. Both morning and afternoon were equally enjoyable and got some hot tips from both of the guys.
Thanks to CANI for putting together such a great weekend!




Ali

Tuesday, 1 May 2012

On the weekend of the 9th march myself and the rest of the crew who are going on the watermark experiances trip to motenegro headed over to the river dart in devon. There had been little rain recently but there was just enough to run it all. We spent our time on saturday shooting the upper and camped by the river on saturday night. We ran the upper again on sunday and got out at the start of the loop. It was a great weekend with the only mess up being the fact that i forgot to wipe the memory on my head cam. no upper footage for me :(
thanks to Deb Pinniger for putting the whole weekend together.


Sitting at the bottom cannonball run...



Surfin' it up at lunch time.


Breakfast, watermark style

Chargin' up the wave





Ali