Italy – Day 6

• Last day in Italy.
• The less rusty you get the more sore you become… so it was time for some experimental video at the top drop on the Egua.  This involved strapping my normal helmet, which had my normal headcam strapped to it, all onto the top of my normal paddle. 
• The concept worked a treat but I need to get more practise using it.  It’s definitely the most straight-forward way to make an on-the-fly boom cam and give you a 6ft reach to get those floaty tracking shots.
• So long Italy, see you next year!

Colm

European Championships Competition Day 1 Part 2

After the first day of competition we had some solid confident rides laid down, lots of rain smiles and good banter

 

and the C1 will be uploaded later.

Orky finished 14th with 90.00 points

Kevin Finished 16th with 00.00 Points

off all the competitiors so far Eoin Keyes was the only one to make it through to the semi Finals finishing 8th in his heat

Well done Eoin!!

Tomorrow it becomes the turn of the senior men to take to the hole!

European Championships competition Day 1

Early morning the rain is still here! we've had pretty consistent rain for the last 4 days but its still been well over 20 degrees even when overcast and dull.

Today is the first day of competition with OC1 first up and our own Kevin McCabe number one in the proceedings first man up at 10am!

followed by Ladies and junior men and C1  all up today

Good Luck to

Kevin McCabe

Orky

Siobhan McGriskin

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Jackie Ferguson

Niall Slevin

Eoin Keyes

Italy – Day 5

• Middle Sesia – from Campertogno to Scopello

• Jumped on at the Campsite in Campertogno and cruised gingerly down to the portage at Quare.  Amazing how much volume there is in this section, some big wave trains and holes.  Feels almost like Austria.
• Took out river right at Quare to avoid syphon alley. 
• Put in a couple of hundred metres below and we were at the take out in Piode in no time – to inspect the Falls. 

• After watching one of the English lads run it we decided it was relatively straight-forward although the main flow was running deep into the slot and was very aerated.
• Eoin ran first.  I was trying to watch from upstream by my boat.  He dropped over the lip, hard left on the right hand channel as planned, and then seemed to take an eternity for the thumbs up to come from the guys on the bridge.
• Thumbs up, a few deep breathes and off I went…

• After landing in the pit at the base of the falls, I hadn’t a clue where I was – still at the base of the drop or washing through.
• After setting up for a roll and not getting any purchase in the aerated water, I suddenly realised I had much less air in my lungs than anticipated.
• Before I knew it my legs had exited the cockpit and the rest of my body soon followed.
• I then realised where I was – past the bridge but heading for a large boulder in the centre of the river and then two seams running diagonally off of it.
• This lead to some serious downtime and it was only afterwards, on playing back the video that I realised a) a throwbag landed just overhead and, b) just how long the downtime actually was.
• Before long I washed up on shore on the right-hand bank and started the walk of shame back to the van.