Irish Whitewater Forum

The What If, Why Not? Festival takes place in Galway City, Ireland on Nov 23rd-24th 2012. Over two days we'll screen nearly 8 hours of award winning adventure sport films. Films that will inspire you. And sometimes scare you. Over two nights we'll be showcasing some of Ireland's freshest musical tal...

The Moy Canoe Club are very active around the Mayo area.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Moy-Canoe ... 9872790800

The Northwest (Sligo/Donegal area) is also very good for surf if there's no rivers up and running.

oh *cringe* some seriously messy swims there. who's nose got broken the boat's or the paddler's?

Some footage of the Junior Freestyle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCfxdlJ8Fz8[/video]

This brings back memories of a day I paddled the Soca river in Slovenia. We were paddling the gorge before the slalom section when a group of about four boys zipped past us in their boats, no adults with them, none of them over the age of fourteen or fifteen (which is nothing new there.) As we were ...

Looks amazing, I want to do it!

Holy Mackrel what the heck is going on? This was one of the best threads I've ever read on a Kayaking forum and it's now been rendered useless because all the constructive discussion/feedback has been removed and it's now descended into a fight. I haven't a clue what's going on with the ICU and I do...

Was just about to post a thanks to BOB for the replies but they've now been deleted, huh?

1) Tighter regulation and monitoring of ICU instructors. Instructor qualifications should be subject to renewal just like first aid qualifications are. Canoe Ireland should also have the mandate to revoke qualifications in cases of instructors acting dangerously or unethically. 2) More help towards ...

I remember I had to ask the 13 year old in my club about that LOL

Bah better in my day etc etc

We have a few river guides on our website here http://www.sligokayakclub.com/river%20guide.html The author says you can copy it to your own river guide if you wish, just make sure to credit Sligo Kayak Club as the author. Still no update from the feed factory must get in touch and see what the story...

There's also the lack of understanding in terms of the comment's we've all heard from time to time.... "going for a row?", "hahahahahah, he fell over!" etc.... People can see that surfers stay on their boards and carve it up. Not so obvious in freestyle for example. Heh, my local playspot is right ...