The PSK Archive
By John Willacy – These are the accompanying notes for a presentation given on the topic of Warm-Ups for Canoe Slalom paddlers. Warm-Ups Why? When? What? How? Where? Practicalities of warm-up Warm-up Clever Why we warm-up To improve race performance To improve training session efficiency To minimise risk of injury Tune in to “today’s body” …
By Geoff Murray – In April of 2011 a group of six paddlers from the Tasmanian Sea Canoe Club set out on a crossing of Bass Strait. Four of the group flew across to Melbourne on the 5th and caught a bus to Port Welshpool, our departure point. Greg Simson and I travelled across to …
By Dimitri Vandepoele – Foreword: I have dreamed. I have prepared. I have trained hard. I have crossed the Southern part of the North Sea by sea kayak on 30 and 31 July 2015. Manpowered and alone, no support whatsoever and no support or pilot vessel. I have paddled during day and night time. I’ve …
By John Willacy – My arms had been making circles for 11 hours now, the tide had long since turned and the speed was dropping. Should I work against the flow, straight line to the headland, or take a chance and head to the cliffs, aiming to scratch my way up the eddies? Looking across …
Continue reading “‘Wet Knees at 5:30?’ — Holyhead to Dublin 2011”
By John Willacy – It was now more than two hours since I had rounded the harbour wall at Dun Laoghaire, the GPS showed I was now nine miles off-shore. As I ventured further from the sanctuary of Dun Laoghaire the conditions had grown steadily worse. Ahead of me lay 40 miles of open water …