There is a Div 3 / 4 Slalom event on the River Loddon at Readng on the 2nd / 3rd May 2010, we will not be attending this event as a club but you may borrow equipment and go to this event.

Tuesday evening is the 2nd round of the Harefield Summer Series of Marathon style races which HYM COPS are currently leading (info attached).

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A day for all the family to come down to Herts Young Mariners Base for a day of free activities all day long. Come along and have a go at: Sailing, Canoeing, Kayaking, ClimbWell Its Here Again HYMB OPEN DAY2 4th APRIL 10 HYMB’s open day. a day for all the family to come down to Herts Young Mariners Base for a day of free activities all day long. Come along and have a go at: Sailing, Canoeing, Kayaking, Climbing, [...]ing, [...]

you need to be over the age of 9 and if your under 18 you must have a parent permission slip field in which can be done on the day

the day start at 10 and there is no limit to the amount of activities you can do

Yesterday I took part in some wild water training at Cardington, We had national team coach’s down to supports us with what we was doing and to give us some tips on what we could do to improve are stork, and times. we managed to get the white water course for a few hours and this helped us improve even further.

The day was a great event and had three different workshops. these were forward paddling technique, Turing on moving water and down water paddling.

Each of these workshops really helped my paddling as it made me think about what I was doing more.

At the end of the day the national team coach’s organized a race. The race was navigation down the white water course in the quickest time. I came first in the race with a time of 55 seconds and 2nd place came in with 59.

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It has been a year that you have been viewing Broxbourne White Water Canoe Centre.

The past year the site has progressed and with big important events happening you found out about them through the blog. It has been a wonderful year for my blog website, I took on the challenge and have found it full of fun writing posts and telling viewers what is going on, I hope to keep having great success with the website for many years to come.”

I hope you come back and read my future posts.

James

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Today I tested out the K1 Extend light in a competition event at Harefield.

I found this cagdeck amazing it fitted to my skin so nice that it could of easily been used as a race vest. The cag is semi dry which is excellent in a competition as you want as little water in the boat as possible. The spraydeck is also very good. On first impressions we thought the marterial used was strange however when i got on the water my fellow paddlers all found that they got out wet,  when I got out I was bone dry.

i highly recommend that you buy this cagdeck from Hiko because it really is worth the money.  In my last review I said that spraydecks weren’t meant to keep you dry, just stop too much water getting into the boat, however this cagdeck made me think that yes they are and they can. Hiko really have made a breakthrough in there cagdecks.

I rate this product  a massive 10/10

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News – Canoeist at Herts Young Mariners’ BaseSpokesman Gary Archer said the event, which was sponsored by Canoe 2012, was staged so that young people and adults could go along to the Windmill Lane venue to see what the sport is all about.

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Well it has been a while seance anything major has happened but on the weekend of Saturday the 23rd of may and Sunday the 24th may. HYMB hosted our own paddle fest event. we Had many different activities ranging from racing and freestyle on Saturday to flat water slalom and bell boating on Sunday. The event was a great success with about 60 participants wanting to try new kayaking disciplines.

We also had lots of new paddles that never realised that these great facilities were on the doorsteps.  Event like these dont go on without major planning and sometimes problems do arise however HYMB staff and volunteers solved these problems to make the event sucessful.

On sunday we had someone from the cheshunt mercury paper wanting to take pictures and film of young people having fun with watersports and when that articles is on there website i will be linking to it.

I am also awaiting on some pictures that were taken of the event they are to follow

HYMB OPEN DAY 4th APRIL 09

HYMB’s open day. a day for all the family to come down to Herts Young Mariners Base for a day of free activities all day long.

• Come along and have a go at:

Sailing, Canoeing, Kayaking, Climbing, Caving, Bushcraft and Bell Boating

• Participants must be over 9 years old

and participants under 18 years old must have a consent form signed by their parent or guardian

• Please Bring A Complete Change Of Clothes!

You Will Receive A 10% Discount On All 2009 Courses Booked, In Person, On The Day!

For more information please call 01992 628403
Activities available from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm
Doors Open 9.30am

For directions please click here

Open day poster

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We were told about the plans, and test event to be held at the new Olympic white water course in 2011, as well as being invited to go down there to view the venue in 2011 while the test runs are taking place.

We were filmed doing a training season on the lake, which was frozen until we broke the ice, and very cold.

We got on the lake in plastic boats to break the ice and warm up. After about half an hour we got in our slalom boats and started showing off our skills while doing our training.

Then we got off the water at about 10 o’clock and had photographs taken of us on the side of the lake with our boats and the other new equipment HYMB have recently bought, for example our two brand new paddle machines, and the plastic slalom and wavehopper boat.

When I find out where the picture and film of the day are I will update with a link to view the pictures.

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It was an early start (when isn’t it when I’m slaloming) 8:00 we needed to meet at HYMB.  But leaving on time is not something we are good at, and when we were meant to be leaving at half past eight we left at more like nine.

However we got to Yalding near Hastings, unpacked all the kit and jumped straight onto the water to get some practise in. I found the course a little boring but I thought I could get the job done to get my promotion. But there was a little twist to this course unlike all the other courses I’ve paddled on.  The weir was not under the control of the canoe centre but under control of the Environmental Agency. This meant the weir gate opened and closed without notice. While I was getting some practise on the upper part of this course the gate opened and went from calm to very ruough,  but I like the big stuff so as there were no events running at this time me and some other people jumped straight into the wave and had some good fun.

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However i needed to get back to business and I did.  I did my first run and it seemed quite good and then my second which was not as good. However my first run put me in second place so I walked away from the event with a division 3 second place 944 points and a promoton.

Yalding Silver Medal, K1 Slalom Division 3

My hard work is not over, I need to train hard in the winter to compete next season

James

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