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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A lot of people wouldn’t know it, but despite having been a part of the British Team for 6 of the past 8 years; I have not competed at a World Championships since Sort in 2001 (back when I was a wee junior and had been paddling less than 2 years)! There were various reasons [...]

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 [...]

As the WCA’s Freestyle Development Officer I am putting on a series of development weekends with demo freestyle? boats, free coaching and a fun competition. If you or someone you know in Wales? is wanting to get into freestyle, then there’s never been a better time to try it. We’re also looking for budding rodeo [...]

? This week saw Europe´s best freestyle paddles take to the water in Ourense, Spain to battle for the title of European Champion 2008. The wave had recieved a lot of abuse prior to the event, but once levels were right and kept stable it was a nice feature, if lacking a little speed for [...]

I generally try not to think of paddling as training, but I suppose that is exactly what I’ve been doing this week with the European Championships looming only a week away! I’ve been doing combined wave and hole training with mornings at Sault Brenaz whitewater course and afternoons at Hawaii-sur-Rhone in Lyon. ? Bouncy backstabs. [...]