Irish Whitewater Forum

Like all of the incident reports I see coming out of the Marine Casualty investigation board, I've some serious problems with their wording in relation to kayaking.

Despite his wealth of experience in the field of marine sports, including
kayaking, the instructor possessed no formal qualification ...

Having read 4 pages of the old thread today(and having read it before), I have only one real situation for using a low brace turn(when not preparing people for assessments), that is purely to give an active method of practicing the low brace, rather than just floating on the spot.

Just thought I'd ...

Something that just crossed my mind- CI to take charge of accident reports instead of inland waterways(simply because they do not know much about kayaking as previous incident reports show)

While his behaviour has been inappropriate(possibly very inappropriate) in terms of recent postings (numerous postings), and that this forum is read by children etc it must be remembered how much time and effort Noel has put in over the last few months in terms of the, for lack of a better ...

Seanie, in the interest of trying to end this argument slightly earlier, but more due to what Ross said in the wishlist thread about it being one of the most productive threads and it being derailed, please just put Neol's post as a separate thread. Mainly because of the derailing thing......

The intervarsities grew out of "schools" canoeing, but I'm still not sure what schools canoeing actually was, so it would be great to see that revived.
I know Alan "Moogie" Moore has gotten a good few people in the Grammar school in sligo, where he teaches involved. Be interesting in hearing about ...

I would definitely like to see some sort of initiative with regards to encouraging primary school and secondary school kids to give kayaking a go. In my mind a system such as: if the appropriate gear could be sourced(mainly second hand boats etc.), perhaps a trailer or van and then have a couple of ...

Saw this thread, and sorry for going off on a tangent but it seems relevant. Saw this a while back, can't remember where but it might very well turn out to be useful. It's a website set up by the various fisheries boards with all their digitised gauges
http://hydronet.epa.ie/maps_W_0.htm ...