Presently we are waiting for autumn rains in Devon. All course programmes are thus on hold until the weather swings in favour of white water paddling. In the mean time, we have lots to do both on and offline. Recently the PaddleExpo 2018 brought some good treats with news of new and good looking kayaks from both Zet, Waka, Pyranha and Spade. A nice surprise was a break through in the printing of carbon paddles by Werner Paddles. Also recently Jakub Sedivy returned from the Canyon of Muksu exception Tajikistan, check out his Instagram feed for some excellent images: @sedivyjakub

During this down time, we have started to add more options to some of our popular programmes, with 'Coaching Only' being now available in many destinations. This development is for both local paddlers wishing to access our coaching as well as travelling paddlers wanting to take care of themselves off the water. Either way we welcome the many new faces in 2018 and hope to see more in 2019.

Another development is the changing of booking conditions to ensure paddlers heading to destinations with consequential white water in the programme are prepared for the demands they in tend to face. On all trips and adventures outside Slovenia that includes Class 4 white water, we now explicitly state paddlers must be able to roll on white water on that nature, in the booking terms. Whilst we also accept that sometimes rolling in a difficult place may not be successful, the ability to roll should be the norm and not an exception. We therefore recommend, that like any skillset, both practise and training is the best way to develop a kayaker's roll into a mastered performance.