Lowri Davies

I realise that it has been some time since I updated this blog. That’s partly because I have been putting most of my recent adventures on the FlowFree blog; but also because I have been too busy doing stuff to write about doing stuff! If you want executive summary: coaching, NSR, coaching, snowboarding, shenanigans, coaching, Level [...]

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 [...]

With Aberystwyth’s sea breeze and salty air we rarely have heavy snow here; and with reports of snow days from all over the country we were starting to get jealous.  Sitting in a lecture as a blizzard caked campus in a thick helping of the fun stuff, I began to get excited. I practically skipped [...]

It’s that time of year again: exams and dissertations loom… and as always, the rivers have been stonkin’ and there’s beautiful surf. Over the past week, I’ve been breaking up the hours at the PC with afternoon blasts down the local classics, a spot of climbing (and watching a mate almost break his ankles falling [...]

The location of the 2008 European Freestyle Championships to be held this July? was recently confirmed as being Ourense in? Spain. This year I am the defending champion, so the pressure is on! Preparations have begun: training is underway, flights are being booked and sponsorship is being sought. Here’s an article from the Cambrian News, [...]

We are blessed with many great sunsets in Aberystwyth. Here, my friends are taking in one such breath-taking evening having just handed in their dissertations. Happy days.

Today I sat the second of five exams which are worth almost half of the third year of my degree. Yesterday afternoon I? was revising in our boathouse which overlooks a? fantastic surf break. ? All photos by Rob Clark Admittedly, the revision was going better before the surf picked up. Tomorrow is my? Small [...]

Team Edition, lime green Riot Thunder all-round kayak with team ‘R’ on hull. Barely used and in very good condition. Selling due to? change in? sponsorship. Flat hull, forgiving rails and a good amount of volume make this an ideal all-round boat, especially for intermediate paddlers. Smaller paddlers find this to be a good UK [...]

? ? ? Last night there was a fireworks display? from the football club? in Aberystwyth (yes, there is a football club!) and as? poor students we decided not to pay the entry fee, but watch from ‘the millenium bridge’ instead. It probably offered better views, especially with the reflections on the River Rheidol – [...]