Technique Guides

Three hours into a river trip and your lower back is screaming. Your bum went numb an hour ago. You’re shifting position every two minutes trying to find an angle…

You booked a kayaking trip on the River Wye, paddled for three hours, and spent the next four days unable to lift your arms above your shoulders. Your back seized…

You are paddling along a canal and need to turn left around a bend. You sweep on the right, the kayak arcs slowly, and by the time you have completed…

You’ve just invested in a paddleboard — possibly £300, possibly £800, possibly more. You carry it to the car balanced on your head, wedge it across the back seats, and…

Someone at the kayak club says they’re heading to a “grade 3 river” this weekend and asks if you want to come. You’ve been paddling for six months, you’re comfortable…

The moment your phone goes in the water halfway across a lake is a memorable one — and preventable. Every inflatable SUP has bungee cords on the nose, which is…

You’re sitting in your kayak for the first time, paddle in hand, and you do what feels natural — you shove the blade into the water and pull. The kayak…

You’ve bought the board, inflated it in the back garden, and maybe even managed to stand up without falling in. But now you’re out on the water and going… nowhere…

The UK has some of the most beautiful and varied kayaking water in Europe — from mirror-calm Scottish lochs to winding English rivers, Welsh gorges to…