Canoe Focus Late Summer 2019
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The Surfers Against Sewage Campaign is back for 2019! Read more on page 16 The 2019 Coaching and Leadership Conference is for you... Read more on page 22 Britain North to South - The Hard Way: A twenty year perspective Read more on page 8 Late Summer 2019 In partnership with Chris Hopwood, Cotswold Outdoor Expert Betws-y-Coed, Wales “Swapping walking for paddling allowed me to look at the map anew and get a different experience of the outdoors. You’re no longer linking woodlands with ridges and footpaths, you’re linking them with lakes and rivers. Being on the water gives you a different perspective of the land and you interact with the outdoors in a completely different way.” 15% discount for members of British Canoeing Full T&Cs apply. Not to be used in conjunction with any other offer. Selected lines are exempt. Maximum 10% discount on bikes. Only valid upon production of your British Canoeing membership identification in-store or use of code online. Offer expires 31.12.19. You can also use your discount with: Trusted by our partners since 1974 Stores nationwide | cotswoldoutdoor.com Let’s go somewhere Contents 3 Welcome Access and Environment Welcome 4 Clear Access, Clear Waters Highlights 14 News CACW Community Champion 15 News 5 The Surfers Against Sewage Autumn 16 Campaign Summit to Sea is back for 2019! Clear Access, Clear Waters Highlights p14 Two-time Olympian Rachel Schofield... p5 Our Partners Go Paddling! Palm - Celebrating Forty Years 17 #ShePaddles - spread the love! 6 Jaffa - 7 Benefits of Oranges 18 and Easy Peelers Cotswold Outdoor - I am Chris 20 #ShePaddles - spread the love! p6 Palm - Celebrating Fourty Years p17 Feature Coaching and Leadership Britain North to South - The Hard Way: 8 A twenty year perspective The 2019 Coaching and Leadership 22 Conference is for you... Canoe Focus Late Summer 2019 Canoe Focus Britain North to South... p8 The 2019 Coaching and Leadership Conference... p22 Performance Upcoming Events British paddlers win international medals 12 What’s On? 24 4 Welcome I hope that you are enjoying yet another excellent edition of The Paddler and invite you to take a few minutes to read the Canoe Focus pages, not only to learn a little about what’s going on in British Canoeing, but to be inspired by the fantastic work of our members. It was great to see members from the West Jaffa is the official fruit partner of British Canoeing Midlands join Tom Watson MP, the Deputy Leader and there is a discount voucher for £1 off any of their of the Labour Party, on a paddle from Tipton to fruit at Tesco. Please do make use of it. You may have Birmingham. He really enjoyed the day and Tom noticed our promotion of a new members benefit is one of a growing number of advocates of our provided by Halfords who are offering 10% off all of Access Charter – Clear Access, Clear Waters (P14). their instore products for members of British Canoeing. This is a great partnership as we know many of our We were proud to recognise Andy Gee from members will want to visit Halfords to purchase Whoosh Explore Canoe Club, for his fantastic bikes, car parts, camping and travel equipment. work in not only engaging the community through canoeing but also for protecting and improving the I am pleased to report that we are still making environment along rivers in Hertfordshire (P15). great progress towards the targets within Stronger Together. Our membership continues to grow as Just a few weeks ago we hosted the ICF Slalom more members are renewing and more paddlers World Cup, also in Hertfordshire at the Lee Valley are joining British Canoeing for the first time. Our White Water Centre. Our athletes performed Clear Access, Clear Waters campaign remains front incredibly well, winning 3 of the 4 gold medals and centre in our work. Our revised coaching and in the Olympic classes and another gold in the leadership qualifications are being received very well. Extreme Slalom. Many more athletes have already enjoyed national and international success in There are still some exciting new developments each of our disciplines this year and you can catch to be released before the end of 2019 and up with some of these results (P12 and P13). we look forward to sharing these with you in the next edition of Canoe Focus. The World Cup demonstrated some other real positives. We were virtually sold out on the first two Of course all of this work is designed to inspire days as more than 6000 spectators watched the event. the passion for paddling. I hope you are noticing We had 220 dedicated event volunteers enjoying their the difference and becoming increasingly experience and wanting to return and we attracted proud to be a member of British Canoeing. two new sponsors in Jaffa and Red Bull who were also very positive about the their experience of working Happy paddling. with British Canoeing. The highlights were screened on BBC 2 on the Sunday afternoon and had good David Joy www.britishcanoeing.org.uk viewing figures. We are now looking forward to hosting Chief Executive the European Slalom Championships in May 2020. NEWS 5 For the latest news from British Canoeing head to our website! If you’re not a member sign up for Liam Heath hosts Japanese free updates through regular newsletters visit to celebrate 1 year to go www.britishcanoeing.org.uk/news to the Tokyo 2020 Games www.britishcanoeing.org.uk/membership/join-us-online-here With just under a year to go until the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, Liam Heath recently welcomed a group of schoolchildren from Two-time Olympian Rachel Motomiya, Japan as part of a partnership with the British Olympic Association. Schofield (née Cawthorn) calls The group watched Liam complete a Click here time on competitive canoeing gruelling training session, before taking to find out more part in a question and answer session One of the longest standing members of the Great hosted by the reigning Olympic champion. Britain Canoe Sprint team, Rachel Schofield has called time on her career after more than 15 years in the sport. Providers trained to run the NEW SUP Coach Awards Click here On the 30th and 31st July, almost 20 Click here to find out to find out providers attended the SUP Coach Award more more Orientation at the National Water Sports Centre, Nottinghamshire. The providers got on the water throughout the two days, taking part in workshops covering SUP Sheltered Water, SUP Open Water, SUP White British Canoeing partners with Halford Water and SUP Race, working through delivering the relevant British Canoeing has announced a brand new partnership discipline specific training, as well as with Halfords Group, which will see members receive classroom based workshops talking a 10% discount on the retailers’ in store products. The through administration processes discount will apply to all members of British Canoeing - and supporting candidates. who have either On the Water or On the Bank category of membership - for in-store purchases at Halfords and Cycle Republic. Paracanoe to be broadcast live at Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games British Canoeing Present at Late Summer 2019 Canoe Focus UK Coaching Conference The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has announced that Paracanoe will be amongst a further Presented by David Joy, British Canoeing CEO, Lee five sports that will be broadcast live from the Pooley, Head of Coaching and Qualifications, and Ricky Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, bringing the total Snodgrass, Digital Education Solutions Lead, the British number to a record 21 disciplines from 19 sports. Canoeing presentation explored the coaching pathway. Click here to find out Click here more to find out more 6 Women’s Paddling Ambassadors, a hashtag, a Facebook group just for female paddlers...what’s that all about then? If paddlesport is for everyone, then why are British Canoeing making such a fuss about women? Well, it all starts with boring statistics and figures. No, don’t leave yet...we aren’t going to quote them all here! We know you’d far rather be paddling than staring at a page of stats. Here’s a basic overview; there are more men paddling than there are women. There you have it, short and (for us) not so sweet. www.britishcanoeing.org.uk 7 Available from: shop.britishcanoeing.org.uk We also figured that the only way to get a movement So, you just want more moving was to give it space! So we created the Women’s women paddling? Paddling Community on Facebook. An awesome group where almost 1000 female paddlers are sharing Nope. We also want those women to get to where and supporting their paddling ideas and ambitions. they want to be in paddlesport. That means creating a welcoming and supportive environment at every level within the sport. Research shows (don’t And...by popular demand yawn at the back there) that women will hold Driven and developed by conversations in the Women’s back from presenting themselves for assessment Paddling Community and on the ground, we have far longer than men at the same paddling level. a brand new #ShePaddles clothing range in our online store. Check it out and grab your gear here. It’s important to us that, if women want to move into coaching and leadership roles, they flipping well get there! Why can’t we have #HePaddles too? It’s just a hashtag; how does You can! We want everyone to share their that make a difference? love of paddling, so feel free to use whichever hashtags sum that up for you.