After a busy January, February seemed to be long and slow. Not to worry though! Towards the end of the month I spent a day in South Wales observing an aspirant 3 Star White Water Kayak provider in action. A brilliant day on the River Usk and a chance to really test out my Palm Stikine drysuit after swimming various rapids for the candidates to showcase their rescue skills. All three paddlers passed the award, including long term student Alex!
From this point on things started to get busy. After finishing debriefs in Crickhowell at 5pm, I drove cross country and arrived at Plas-y-Brenin to begin the Level 3 Core Training on the Monday. At some point I will go into more detail as the week deserves it's own blog post. Thanks to Tatiana Cappucci for the photos.
The course ended on Friday afternoon with practical fitness for paddlesports module. Next up - a drive through the night to Scotland! The plan for the week was to complete the Great Glen Paddle over 4 days, taking in the famous Loch Ness. I arrived at Fort William around 11am after sleeping in the car at Callander. After some coffee and cake in the mill at Spean Bridge, I met with the other paddlers and got some rest. What a fantastic trip with some amazing views. This week again deserves it's own post.
Once back from Scotland, the following weekend found me delivering at the BCU Southern Region Coach Update. I ran morning and afternoon workshops designed to update the coaches on some of the new, fun ways of rescuing paddlers that they work with. The "canoe scoop" went down well for getting paddlers out of the water and an out of the box solution for rescuing from a playboat impressed! Thanks to Dinton Activity Centre for providing the boats, copious amount of coffee and the photo below.
The course ended on Friday afternoon with practical fitness for paddlesports module. Next up - a drive through the night to Scotland! The plan for the week was to complete the Great Glen Paddle over 4 days, taking in the famous Loch Ness. I arrived at Fort William around 11am after sleeping in the car at Callander. After some coffee and cake in the mill at Spean Bridge, I met with the other paddlers and got some rest. What a fantastic trip with some amazing views. This week again deserves it's own post.
Once back from Scotland, the following weekend found me delivering at the BCU Southern Region Coach Update. I ran morning and afternoon workshops designed to update the coaches on some of the new, fun ways of rescuing paddlers that they work with. The "canoe scoop" went down well for getting paddlers out of the water and an out of the box solution for rescuing from a playboat impressed! Thanks to Dinton Activity Centre for providing the boats, copious amount of coffee and the photo below.
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