Canoe England Paddle Power Awards Added 18th Feb 2011 by Rob Walker

The British Canoe Union (BCU) and Canoe England administer a large range of personal canoeing and kayaking awards in the UK.

The lowest level of personal awards available is the 'Paddle Power' Award Scheme. This scheme of continuous training and assessment, is designed specially for young people, and was fully updated in 2007. It is based around colourful progress charts, detailing each skill that must be tried or achieved, and covers all aspects of paddle sport. The Paddle... Read more

What is kayaking Added 20th Dec 2010 by Rob Walker

Kayaking is a popular water sport that has many diverse forms, including sea kayaking, sit on top kayaking, white water kayaking, surf kayaking, kayak touring, and many different types of competition kayaking.

Kayaking is also an Olympic sport, with flat water sprint races and white-water slalom races. You can learn a lot more about Olympic kayaking on the GB Canoeing web site.

Hundreds of thousands of people try kayaking in some form every year, making it one of the... Read more

What is Gorge Walking (Ghyll/Gill Scrambling)? Added 17th Dec 2010 by Rob Walker

Gorge Walking is known by many different names including 'Gorge Scrambling', 'Ghyll Scrambling', 'Gill Scrambling', 'Gully Bashing' and 'Stream Walking', but essentially, all of these names the same thing – to travel up or down a watercourse on foot, tackling any waterfall climbs, plunge pool jumps, rock slides and caves.

Tacking more difficult gorges that require abseiling down waterfalls, jumping off really big cliffs and using complex rope work technique are normally known... Read more

Everything you need to know about your first Abseil Added 15th Dec 2010 by Rob Walker

Abseiling, also known as Rappelling, is a thrilling (and occasionally scary!) activity, where the aim of the game is to make it from the top of a building/cliff/bridge/tower, to the ground in graceful style. The abseiler often starts with small nervous steps on their journey to the ground after having had to lean out over thin air, but normally finishes with great leaps and bounds as skill and confidence improve. This is one of those adventure activities where everyone wants... Read more

A Little Bit About Archery Added 13th Dec 2010 by Rob Walker

Archery is an activity involving skill, accuracy and self discipline.

It focuses your mind and your body on the small actions of drawing and aiming your bow and arrow, and releasing the string at exactly the right moment, to cause the arrow to gracefully fly through the air and (hopefully) land right in the center of the target. 

The origins of archery are generally unknown, however the bow and arrow has been used as a weapon in every continent except Australia, where the spear... Read more