Lowri Davies

I have been back in the UK for 2 months now and have been keeping myself very busy. Here’s a bit of a photo-based summary of what I’ve been up to. I arrived back just in time for Pyranhafest in the sunshine and was able to catch up with friends and compete in the fun [...]

So the World Freestyle Championships 2009 are now over; the wave, big screen, spectator stands, big air ramp and all the crowds have disappeared and I seem to be the last paddler left in Thun. There has already been awesome coverage of the event online, including live TV coverage on www.freecaster.tv and daily updates on [...]

Yesterday Emily Wall, Islay Crosby and myself went on a stealth mission to find a wave near Thun without queues. Little did we know that the journey there would be an adventure in itself! As we wound our way through the mountains in my van, we found ourselves at a toll booth; but this was [...]

For the past few weeks I have been getting as much time on various waves as possible in preparation for the World Freestyle Championsips which kick off in Thun in less than a week! Between training days, and after an annoying shoulder tweek, I enjoyed some hiking across the spectacular Besseggen Ridge in Norway. Full [...]

Well, it’s been a busy month. A couple more weeks of paddling some of the classic sections around Sjoa such as the Store Ula, Upper Jori, Bovra, Lora & of course plenty of runs of the Amot passed… Photos courtesy of Gene 17 – see more on the Gene 17 Flickr account …until it was [...]

Yesterday was a wonderful day. The Nordic Freestyle Champs were held under brilliant sunshine here in Sjoa and between competing in heats and finals, I got my Masters degree results…and after 5 years of hard work and juggling commitments, I was delighted to discover I had got a First! In the freestyle, there were more [...]

Welcome to Norway – Photo: Nick Horwood In celebration of finishing Uni forever, I’ve buggered off to Norway. As the Newcastle ferry was cancelled last year, Nick Horwood, my van and I had to mission the drive from Dunkerque through France, Belgium,  Holland and Denmark to get a ferry to Norway. At the ferry port [...]

Last week I was elected Aberystwyth University’s Sports Person of the Year, a great honour which makes me extremely proud. Usually all the awards go to traditional field sports but this year myself and the canoe club dominated: I won Sports Person of the Year : This is awarded to the individual who has excelled [...]

I wrote a book. Well a 32,000 word dissertation about my project which aimed to produce software to conduct autonomous dolphin monitoring from a robotic sailing boat… As part of my Software Engineering Masters, we are required to carry out a major final year project which includes coming up with an idea and doing all [...]

Due to the reconstruction work at Holme Pierrepont, the National Student Rodeo was postponed until the end of March this year, putting it on the same weekend as Paddlefest. Since I was already due to be working at Paddlefest providing FlowFree coaching clinics and manning the FlowFree stand; this was set to be a VERY [...]