After the long and hard bank holiday weekend the Head coaches within Team GB have selected there team and these have been finalized and published.

Paddlers headed for London not for the royal Wedding but to get on the water at the brand new Lee Valley White Water Centre based in Waltham cross - Broxbourne.

The event was a great sucess with 5,000 members of the general public turing up to watch these athletics fight it out for a place on the team.

Local club HYMCOPS was asked to come alone and run a go paddling season on the lake which was intended to get the public interested in the sport and they had a very busy time catering for all ages even as young as four.

However the club was then asked if they could provide the water safety team. The Slalom course safety team had a mainly quiet weekend apart from Sunday when the strong wind conditions and a demanding course, and some careless gate judges provided them some activity.

The Club also got to try out the brand new Team GB C1 and C2 boats which makes a chance to the ones they are currently paddling. Members of the public were impressed with the New Lee Valley venue and it has been decided that test events should be open to the public rather than behind closed doors, so keep your eyes open for more information over the coming months.

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as you may all be aware there has really been little content update in the past few month and that is really down to not having the time to chase different story leads up. if your out there and you think you have a story that is relevant to bwwcc then please feel out the form below and i shall review it and if i feel it is good material I will edit it and post it on site

here at bwwcc we love to be user friendly and have post from our views and we also love to be the first to inform our viewers so please help us out and get writing your white water story’s in.

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James

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Course structures complete.

Summer 2010

Slalom courses running and facility building complete.

Lake complete and filled.

Autumn 2010

Slalom courses commissioned and external landscaping complete.

Spring 2011

Centre opens to the public.

Summer 2012

Centre closes to the public for olympic games.

Spring 2013

Centre reopens to the public.

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last year there was 150,000 cubic metres of soil required to build up the 5.5m start pull walls, and to build the lake. There is now more then 500 piles now ready for the construction of the building this month.

The lake is due to be completed during the summer of 2010. It is planned to be concrete based with concreted sandbags forming the banks and walls.

The 300m Olympic course is also taking shape alone the western side of the centre. the earthworks are due to finish on the Olympic course early this year ready for concreting and the Olympic course is due to be completed in the summer of 2010.

The 160m intermediate course is also on schedule and earthworks are due to finish in the next few months ready for concreting and completion in the summer of 2010.

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Broxbourne white water canoe centre is on course to be open for public use in spring of 2011. The ground works are well under way and the foundations of the building have been completed. BWWCC will be the only brand new olympic venue to be open to the public before the olympic games in 2012. They have worked to make it not only the most depanding course in the world but the best training base for white water aswell.

Theres a new information site at YHA Lee Valley which is around 20 minite walk away from the site. this is a drop in centre and has loads of information about the new site.

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Welcome to this months edition to the construction updates.

Since my last post less then a month ago a lot has happened, as you will see in the pictures in this post that I have tried to take from the same camera position. There is lots of new material, that was not there a few weeks ago.

Four weeks ago it was being counted that at least 10 dumper trucks a hour was entering the site to leave soil and dirt. Now there are reports that this has stopped and the earth works for the new site have finished. This means the site is now well under way of being constructed.

From the look of the progress the New Broxbourne White Water Canoe Centre is well on its way and may be opened earlier then expected.

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James

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I have recently visited the New White Water site where they have well and truly started the construction. There has been reports of more then 50 lorries filled with earth being delivered to the site daily. All this earth has been used to construct the banks of the course.

As you can see from the picture below. There really has been a lot of progress since July, and whats more they say the construction is ahead of schedule which means it could be open even earlier.

Now construction has officially started I hope to be blogging about the construction of the site at least once a month to tell you about any major change to the site.

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James

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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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