NSR 2010 went off this weekend, and was a huge success all round. Just under 700 competitors and almost 1000 people in all turned up to party and paddle, including guests Rush Sturges and Tyler Bradt, who premiered their new movie ‘Dream Result’ at Saturday night’s party.
The usual mens and women’s competitions ran, [...]
Posted on March 8th, 2010 by Palm HQ
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This October once again saw Plas-Y-Brenin play host to the BCU Student Safety Seminar, where Britains’ intellectual cream gather to gain tips and tricks on running a university canoe club from some of the best in the business. As you’d expect at such a valuable event, Palm were there with bells on (not literally, you [...]
Posted on November 6th, 2009 by Tom Parker
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It’s that time of year again! After two days of stand building we’re all set for another cracking Kanumesse show in Nürburg, Germany.
As usual, we’ve got a plethora of new kit to show but first there’s some finishing touches to make to the stand. Check back later to see everything new from Palm!
Cheers,
Tim
Posted on September 17th, 2009 by Palm HQ
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Wall to wall blue bird sky, with searing early Autumn sunshine made for what is a change maker. The older generation finally fell to the youth, and like father handing on the baton to the son, its all change at the top of the World Freestyle arena with Jackson Kayaks and the Jackson family ringing [...]
Posted on September 6th, 2009 by Gene17
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Drained expressions and blank stares covered the faces of many a paddler this morning, the morning after the night before, told tales of party revellers and high octane music at the World Championship Loser Party in Thun. Yet for the selection few, well 60 paddlers who had made it to Semi Finals, there was [...]
Posted on September 5th, 2009 by Gene17
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Heavy rain certainly cleared the air for Thursday morning, and events got going at 10 sharp. The action for the ladies was a great show, often a lot of safe surfing and then bang, a cool aerial move, its was eye catching stuff.
In the crowd of ladies, were two new nations competing at the [...]
Posted on September 3rd, 2009 by Gene17
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Overnight rain gave rise to a damp morning and an overcast sky. Day 3 in Thun looked like it would be a very grey affair. With the event still in the prelim stages, mid week was for the Canoe classes and Juniors. Due to very late night practise I was sleeping in this [...]
Posted on September 2nd, 2009 by Gene17
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The long day, the mens K1 preliminaries that is. Over a hundred wave shredders, sized the Thun wave from over 32 nations, all in the hope to getting the phat tricks and big air to make it to the quarterfinals day on Friday. Last night the lake level had dropped so much that [...]
Posted on September 2nd, 2009 by Gene17
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I have just arrived back in NZ for two weeks downtime before jumping back on the plane and heading to North America for more adventures. My return coincided with one of NZ’s frequent winter storms so not one to miss the chance to huck some drops I loaded up the truck and headed for the [...]
Posted on July 21st, 2009 by Ben Brown
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I have just returned from an awesome expedition in Iceland where we were filming for Rush Sturges and Tyler Bradts upcoming feature ‘Dream Result’. Along with Rush, Tyler and Patrick Camblin we headed to the Land of Fire and Ice in search of big waterfall adventures!
We spent three weeks circumnavigating the entire Island and [...]
Posted on July 15th, 2009 by Ben Brown
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