Here’s an interesting piece of video footage from a company that specialises in aerial video footage from an awesome remote control helicopter carrying a DSLR to shoot video. You can see a photo of the amazing helicopter rig on their website. A step up from the usual GoPro/bullet camera footage!
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Video: Liquid Logistics Open Day
Following on from my earlier article about the Open Day at Liquid Logistics, Steve Mead, one of the instructors and multi-media whizzkid has put together a short video round-up of the day. It gives a nice flavour of what proved to be a great fun day on the water. I crop up a couple of [...]
Busy Weekend On The Water
After several days of windy, wet weather the Solent enjoyed a stunning weather window this weekend with glorious sunshine and relatively low winds. Perfect timing for two days of coaching on the water. Liquid Logistics Open Day Saturday was spent with the folks at Liquid Logistics on their first Open Day. The event was run [...]
Jim Krawiecki Video Shorts
Jim Krawiecki is already well known to many paddlers as the co-author of Welsh Sea Kayaking and the author of Northern England & IOM: Fifty Great Sea Kayak Voyages, both published by Pesda Press. There is also a really enjoyable podcast with Jim on Simon Willis’s Sea Kayak Podcasts website. Recently, Jim has been releasing [...]
BCU 2 Star Training – Liquid Logistics
I’ve been quite busy on the weekends coaching in recent weeks. Working for/with Isle of Wight Sea Kayaking and Liquid Logistics. A couple of weekends ago I spent a very enjoyable, if rather wet, day working with Liquid Logistics coach Stuart Watson on a BCU 2 star training course. The current BCU 2 Star award [...]
4 Star Assessment Photos
Last summer I undertook my BCU 4* Assessment. On the ‘group day’ a fellow candidate and I worked with a group of paddlers on a trip from Freshwater Bay, around the Needles to Colwell Bay. It was a superb day on the water with some stunning weather. Unfortunately I chose not to take my camera [...]
News: New Palm Aleutian Drysuit
The first drysuit I bought was the original Palm Aleutian Drysuit which I reviewed back in 2009. About 12 months or so I was one of a number of folks asked to provide updated thoughts and feedback to Palm as they began the process of updating the Aleutian Drysuit. I was really interested to see [...]
Upcoming Events For Sea Kayakers: Spring 2012
There are a number of upcoming events for sea kayakers, some local to the Solent and some further afield. Here’s a few details in case folks are interested. Isle Of Wight Sea Kayak Symposium: 25th-27th August Registration for this even opened yesterday. The registration pack is available from the Isle of Wight Sea Kayak Symposium [...]
Qajaquk Magazine
Mike Holgate has been hard at work, with the aid of a number of contributers, putting together a new digital magazine/newsletter which is available for free download from the Qajaquk.org website. The spring issue make for some interesting reading and is very much a grass roots affair. It’s great to see Mike pushing to raise [...]
Video: Valley Gemini Twins
Valley have two new sea kayaks on the way, in the form of the Gemini Twins. Both kayaks are 14’10″, and feature a 3 hatch layout on the deck – rear, front and deck-pod. However, subtle and not so subtle differences in the rest of the design produces differing handling characteristics as explained by Peter [...]
