Thursday, December 22, 2011

Paddlefest 2012

Paddlefest is back in Donegal for 2012.  Moville is the venue and offers a range of facilities for the surf paddler, river runner, freestyler and sea kayaker.
There will be a range of workshops in all disciplines.
I will be doing a session on the fundamental movement skills that underpin surf kayak and waveski. This will be based on and off the water and is aimed at developing a greater understanding of the core skills that support athlete development.
Expedition paddler and founder of the ‘Association of Paddlers and Coaches’, Olly Sanders will be a guest coach as will Olaf Obsommer. Olaf is the man behind ‘Adidas Sick Line’, is an all round hellboater adventurer and has his name in the Book of legends! I can’t wait to hear his boating stories from around the world!
I think this one will sell out pretty quick so book early!

The Book of legends
 

Ocean Addicts Coaching & Development week

Untitled from sam jones on Vimeo.

Here is some footage from the recent Ocean Addicts waveski & surf kayak coaching camp. Really good group of people on the course so made it a very enjoyable week. The footage is from sessions where students were working on various skills such as getting air, cut backs and re-entries. Plenty of spills so we know they were trying! Thank you again to everyone involved for making it a great week. Look out for the upcoming feature on kayaksurf.net from their roving reporter Pete Copp who has some quality pictures too!