Aire Waves: March 2006

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Leeds Canoe Club Blog. We paddle... lots!
Airewaves used to be Leeds Canoe Club's magazine letting people know what the club was upto. Its quite hard work pulling together a publication letting people know what the club is doing and publishing dates in advance is always hard as things tend to change. Step forth the blog.. Push button publishing for the masses. So here is the idea a few people in the club take it in turns to write up trips and talk about things in the club.

Tuesday, March 28, 2006
canoe polo - march 2006

On saturday it was the last match for this season. We went into it with confidence after 10 wins out of 10 in our earlier matches.
1st game was a 4-1 victory over Kingston Kaos, with goals scored by Ian, Andy R, Curly and Paul
2nd game was yet another victory over the uni (though not as emphatic as previous wins!) with Paul and Ian scoring in the 2-1 win over Leeds Uni
3rd mach was a 0-0 draw with sheffield uni, which was slightly disappoining as we had beaten them twice before earlier in the season.
4th match was our first taste of defeat this season with Andy R scoring our concelation goal, after a quickly taken corner meant he was unmarked at the far post, in the 1-2 loss to Kinston Carnitors.
As sheffield uni had lossed 9-0 to the carnitors it meant that we would be ahead on goal difference in 2nd place if we won our final match over malton & norton. And we won it in style wit a 4-0 victory with goals from Andy R, Curly, Ian & Paul.
So second place in division 3 and promotion to division 2. so well done to this years polo team - Ian, Paul, Andy R, Curly, Sarah, James, Sam, Mick, Graeme, and Andy H.
Next season we're looking at entering 2 polo teams -1 in division 2 and 1 in division 3 - open to anyone who's interested.

# posted by andy @ Tuesday, March 28, 2006 0 comments

Sunday, March 26, 2006
Upper Upper Wharfe

After what seems like months of waiting finally it rains! A tough choice was made between going to the Washburn or going and seeing what actually rivers are actually running. The clocks also changed this weekend which could explain why a few people were late getting to the club house.

We headed off up the Wharfe as it was apparently huge in Otley. Looking at Wharfe at Conistone we decided to head further up stream. We go to Hubberholme and started looking at the river with great delight! It was full, not bank full but certainly runable. We got on and it was flowing fast but the river was very shallow. As we went down stream more and more side becks joined and the river got deeper and wider. The first major drop which needed a bit of inspection was a tounge with a deep slot next to it. I jumped out to put on safety as Paul dropped squarely down the slot. Nick boofed it perfectly while Greg and Silke flew off the tongue with ease. As we paddled down the river a few fimilar faces appeared on the water. Nick Elder and Mark Leeming showed up after already running the river. John Bradshaw and John Lucas appeared and blasted past us.

Once we pasted the pack horse bridge the river eased off alot more. In future we may get off this bridge but it was good to run the section in full. Letting my concentration slip (possibly just taking a photo) I dropped in to a narrow stopper sideways and get flipped. I could get my paddles around the roll so managed to T rescue off the back of Paul's boat. Back at the cars we looked to see what else could be done, but people were faultering after being up early and many people had been playing Polo till late. So we packed up and went to see if Linton Falls was runable. As we parked the cars we could hear the falls behind the houses. Looking over the bridge it was clear that there was a lot of water. Most of it would be runnable, except for the massive munching stopper at the bottom. So we took so pictures, talked a good paddle and went home for a nice cup of tea and to call our Mothers.

# posted by Gavin @ Sunday, March 26, 2006 0 comments

Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Leeds Conoe Club Lego

Is this guy one of oursWhat about these block heads

# posted by Martin @ Tuesday, March 21, 2006 0 comments

Friday, March 17, 2006
Even snowmen like to canoe!

With a fair amount of snow about on Sunday a few of us went to the park to play. Something I've always wanted to do since buying my first kayak was to take it out in the snow and see how fast it'll go! So that was exactly what we did!!

After tying the kayak to the car, and nearly loosing it along the way, we finally got to the park, and tried out the smaller slopes. It didn't go too fast at first, and we discovered that the more people we piled on, the faster it would go. After 3 of us on climbing on the kayak, we managed to get quite a bit of speed and were ready to hit the big slopes!

After our mini practice we were all up for tying out the big slop and me and Gib decided the be brave and give it a go first... We got up so much speed I couldn't stop screaming, and all I could see was the pavement at the bottom which we were flying towards at what felt like vertically down hill - A very scary moment! Gib managed to put his feet down and stop us before we hit the bottom, to which I own him my life - thank you! We decided that this slope was FAR too steep, and moved across to a section which didn't have the near vertical drop at the bottom, but still involved us taking off near the end! We took it in turns in 2's and 3's and had a great laugh! We even made a snowman, who wanted to join in the fun (see pic) so we sent him down the slopes to his tragic death - sorry snowy!. A fantastic day out in the snow :o)

Tanya

# posted by Gavin @ Friday, March 17, 2006 0 comments

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