Tuesday Evening: 21 paddlers take part in the Progressive Racing Group Training. 2nd grid taking off. Paddlers go off at staggered intervals depending on their fitness.
Wednesday evening: The young paddlers at Ascot practise their capsize drills.
Ascot time trial was afterwards.
Thursday evening: Progressive Racing Group skills training.
OOOPPS my support stroke didn't work.
I suppose that is the reason I need more practise!!
Friday morning: Finish of the buoys race and bringing in the buoys for the last time on a Friday morning this summer.
Winter Down River season will start soon.
Kimberley Presentation
I will be presenting my Epic Adventures in the Kimberly
1982 -2002
on Sunday March 22nd 3.15pm at
THE FREMANTLE 2020 ADVENTURE TRAVEL FILM FESTIVAL
20 – 22 March 2020
The Kimberley has some of the fastest tidal currents in the world. The ocean is more like a rapid river 13kms wide rather than an ocean.
Rapids at Hells Gate.
Huge standing waves off West Roe Island.
Hear how I escaped these huge whirlpools at Walcott Inlet.
Congratulations to Yale Steinepreis (BPC) who qualified for her fourth Australian U23 Sprint Team last weekend at the Canoe Sprint Grand Prix #2! Yale will compete at the 2020 ICF Canoe Sprint U23 World Championships this July in Brandenburg, Germany. Meanwhile, Jaime Roberts, Kathleen Louise , Josh Kippin and Jesse Phillips are still fighting for the few places on the 2020 Australian Olympic Sprint Team, and will compete at the Australian Sprint National Championships next month to qualify 🤞
Harriette Alexis, Lachlan Armstrong, and Shannon Reynolds also competed last weekend at the GP#2, all of whom finished with strong results. Full results from the weekend can be found 👉https://regattas.paddle.org.au/regattas/1183/
📸 Lawrence Greed
Jessie Fox
talks about slalom
You may not know:
When we get ready for a competition in canoe slalom, we can train on the channel in the lead up to the event, practicing different gate combinations and possible moves, but we don’t know what the race course will be until the day before when they set the gates.
We watch the demonstration runs, but don’t get to actually practice before we race. Instead, we analyse from the bank, review video of the demos, discuss with the coach which lines or options we will take, walk through the course and visualise, and maybe also watch some paddlers racing before us.
Mental preparation is just as important as our physical readiness, and you have to trust your ability and training to piece together the run and get the gates, even if you’ve never done those moves before !
That’s one thing that I love about our sport and what makes it exciting - it’s never the same.
SO! If you’d like to see the @auspaddleteam and the world’s best athletes in action - come check out the international Whitewater Festival at @penrith_whitewater this weekend! It’s also Olympic selection for our boys! I’m excited to race
!
Kylan and Attila fight for second place. Gergely Balazs Nagy won. Photo Britt-marie
Good-gerne.
It's hard to keep up with the expert C1 paddlers.
HIGH SUPPORT STROKE
HIGH SUPPORT STROKE
When paddling white water, the surf or during canoe polo, the Low Support Stroke may not be sufficient to prevent you from capsizing, and at such times, the High Support Stroke may be required.
Use the face or drive side of the blade.
Hold your paddle at shoulder height with your elbows beneath the
shaft.
Overbalance as if you are about to capsize.
When the drive face of the blade hits the water surface, drive the boat upwards by using the support of your paddle and applying knee lift and hip flick. Your
paddle blade should be in line or slightly behind your hips.
Keep your non-working top hand close to your face to avoid dislocating your shoulder.
Freya Hoffmeister in Mexico.
The pelicans are different colour to ours.
Cactus on the shoreline.
SunSmart Women of the Avon Ascot Kayak Club, 21st & 28th March, 4th April
Paddle WA are once again running the 2020 SunSmart Women of the Avon program for allwomen wanting to undertake the challenge of competing in the iconic 2020 Avon Descent!
Find out the details of the program in the link below, including an exclusive offer on all equipment needed for the race generously provided by Canoeing Down Under!
Registrations close 11.59pm on Wednesday 18th March.
