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While many of you were competing over the weekend for the freestyle GB team I continued to train with less than two weeks until junior GB slalom selection. After a long and cold winter of hard training it is now only two weeks away from GB selection and the chance to race in Brazil in the junior world championships. The race will be taking part over two days at Lee Valley with Saturday being normal race format and the Sunday being both runs counting as selection points. This weekend I will be heading over to Lucan, Ireland to get in a...

For the last 4 weeks the awesome Dennis Newton has been living and training with me and Jez in Sydney and New Zealand. Dens arrival in early Jan kicked off this years training in style as he set me up with a plan aimed to get me ready for this years worlds. Not only that the goal was for Den and Jez to also train ready for their own selection events and the forthcoming season. Within hours off arriving Den had us rolling around the lounge floor. Chatting through moves, techniques and key components Den preloaded us with information, and...

So last week we had some exciting news, the 2015 Jackson Kayak Zen had finally arrived in the UK.  I was lucky enough to get my hands on one for the weekend. On first look the main things that I noticed was the flared sidewall and the ample bow rocker which is great for keeping the nose of the boat dry. As there was not much water down here in Cornwall, we decided to head up to Cardiff White Water Centre. The first thing that I noticed was the speed of the boat, it only took a few paddle strokes and it...

In 8 months time the ICF World Championships will be taking place on ‘Garb’ wave on the Ottawa river in Canada. The Ottawa River is renowned amongst freestyle kayakers as one of the best training venues and is home to some of the best surf waves in the world. In the summers there’s warm water, sunshine and a mixture of small and smooth and fast technical waves and in the spring its home to some of the biggest most challenging waves ever surfed. Read More… By Claire O’Hara

Hello this is my first post on the Squarerock Blog, my name is Elliott Davidson I’m a canoe slalom athlete. I represent Ireland and compete internationally on the U23 and senior team. I’ve competed in slalom since I was 12 years old, I’m now 20. I’m very thankful to Squarerock for their support, it is much appreciated. Irish selection 2014 was held in the UK, at the Grand Tully premier races 1 & 2. Its was a slightly different format than a usually race as each run counted as a race instead of your best run out of two. From this I was...