A new race has been added to the calendar, on the Hamble on 17th November. A good turnout was seen at the inaugural event last year, and should prove a good challenge again this year.

Further details and safety and coaching sheets can be found here.

The results from the Soar race series have been added.

Soar 1

Soar 2

Soar 3

Congratulations to Wiltshire Youth Canoe Club on being Club Champions for 2011. A well deserved victory. A special mention should be made of Itchen Valley Canoe Club who amassed 461 points and 6th place with only 4 paddlers. Regional results will follow when I have worked out where some of the clubs are located!

Club Championship rankings

Results from a chilly Taff race last weekend have been posted. Well done to everyone who braved the cold to paddle.

Results

Lots of information about the Irwell race on Sunday 11th March can be found in the Race Promotion section of Document Downloads, including the entry form, information about coaching and safety and a risk assessment.

Document Downloads - Race Promotions

Wild Water Racing is moving forward, can you keep up?

At the last Wild Water Racing Annual Consultative meeting, a number of improvements were agreed to Wild Water Racing, to make the sport more exciting and more accessible.

The Competitive Year

In order to help promote the sport to a wider audience to help paddlers prepare for selection and international duty, the racing season is changing to run from 1^st September every year until the 31^st August the following year. In order to make this adjustment, the 2012 season will run from the 1^st January 2012, till 31^st August 2012.

A Fairer and Simpler System

From January 1^st 2012, there will be no handicap on paddling a composite construction boat. The fastest elapsed time for each competitor is what will count. This makes it fairer as the fastest person wins the race. It makes it easier for clubs to run races as there is no need for computers to work out the results, so hopefully more clubs will run more races more often! Why not get your Club to do one?

In order to ensure Canadian Classes can have a competition, if there are less than 3 boats in a class, they will be given a percentage advantage and given the number of points they would have got if they had raced in the K1 class, but they will be ranked separately. If there are three or more boats they will have their own points system.

Wavehopper Racing for everybody

As previously announced Wavehopper Racing has been opened up to all paddlers and all age groups, making it easier for people of all ages to access races.

And so much more to come .....

From September 2012 there will be a new structure of Regional events, making it easier for everybody to access a local ranking race and keep the cost of travelling down, making the sport more affordable and easier for clubs to access across the Country.

These Regional events will have their own league structure and age group competitions as well as count towards your national ranking position, you will be free to enter any regional events, not just the ones in your region; so you can still go to your favourite races and get points. In addition to this there will be 5 National Events at prestige locations, where we can celebrate our sport and achievements, with the top national Wild Water Racers.

Full results, ranking list and information can be found at: www.wildwater.org.uk.

Ends

For more information contact Neal 07951 770141

We need a working party to help maintain the trees on the middle section of the Tryweryn. This will help us with our relationship with the centre, and keep this useful section of whitewater accessible all the year around and in all water levels.

The maintainance will be on either 12th or 26th Feb 2012, when it is expected there will be no water release (Saturday only in Feb is normal). Please contact Neil Stamps if you would be able to help, indicating which date you would be able to make.