The Big Paddle is coming! This year on June 16th Palm Equipment and ourselves will be hosting The Big Paddle at our shop in Shepperton. So what goes down at The Big Paddle? - Free starter sessions- Canoes, kayaks and stand up paddle boards - Guided paddle tours of the surrounding area -...

We got a chance to check out the new CORE WhiteOut outfitting from Wave Sport last week. Some of you may have realised that it’s remarkably similar to the Contour Ergo Outfitting from Dagger. Well, that’s because it is basically the same, apart from the graphic design and...

Tim from Pyranha brought us a pre-production Nano for us to have a look at yesterday. We only had about 5-10 minutes to throw this all together but it certainly wet our appetites to take it out and give it a dam good thrashing on some big water when we can! We still reckon that it’s...

Tim from Feel Free popped in yesterday to show us a few new toys. The Moken 10 Lite is a smaller version of the popular Moken 10. Looks like a cracking versatile sit-on-top for inland fishing and we look forward to having them in the shop. Summary of the features: Revolutionary hatch design...

Mark ‘Snowy’ Robertson the head designer at Dagger and an English expat living in the US wanted to give his colleagues Shane and Chris a real in-site into the UK market by meeting a few UK retailers. What better first stop after landing at Heathrow for some tea...

So lets say you happen to be on a date with a girl (or a guy), and your asked “what kind of music are you into?”.  The answer you really wanna give is “music from those kayaking videos” but your not really sure of any artists, names or genres to wow your prospective...

What an absolutely cracking day for Canoe Slalom! Let me just try to sum up briefly the journey the guys went on to winning those medals! Rich Hounslow was about to retire from the sport several years ago after 10 years or so as one of our top K1 paddlers. Dave Florence, the C1 silver...

The Pyranha Nano – The pint-sized creeker UPDATE: We had a preview of a production one at the shop BLOG/video here HERE When you thought they had plugged just about every gap with their white water range Pyranha bring out this fella. Quite nicely summed up by a comment of our...

We are honoured to have the legendary Sano Babu Sunuwar come down to our Demo Day on Saturday 16th at 4pm!! Babu will be showing his epic film Hanuman Airlines followed by a Q&A session. Babu and his expedition partner Lakpa won the National Geographic Adventures of the Year last...

I took the Pyranha Shiva down the Humla Karnali on a 10 day trip so a cracking way to test it out! I sold the boat to Charlie at Ganesh Kayak shop so its available for hire to any one. You may also be interested in a practical guide/report to the Humla which may be of interest!   In...

If you have been paddling in Nepal in the last 10 years you will have at least herd of Babu, and if your lucky you may have had the pleasure to paddle with him! In recent years he has taken to the skies in quite a big way. Last year Babu became the first person to paraglide from the summit of...

Namaste from Pokhara, After Pete got me in a head lock and forced me to take 5 weeks off from the shop, I headed out here on my tod to try get as bigger fix of Nepali adventure as I could….the world-wide-kayak-community and Kingdom of Nepal didn’t let me down! The Humla Karnali...

Wearing a helmet that doesn’t fit properly is as good as a one legged man in an arse kicking contest Make sure your helmet fits today – don’t wait till it’s too late! All helmets and heads are different and just because you fitted it out many moons ago doesn’t...

We have this lot to get rid of! All of the following are £8.99 plus £2 p&p We have: 1 Gul blue white Junior small rashy 1 Gul blue white Junior medium rashy 2 Gul pink white girls sun suit. Size age 4-5 1 light blue Gul rashy Junior medium 2 Gul light blue Gul rashy junior large 1...

We are very excited to finally have our hands on a Lettmann Granate which is the first creek boat made by the German company. You may have come across the Lettman Ergonom paddles, which are often regarded as the dog-do-dars for slalom and extreme races. This is hardly surprising when you...

We have just got our hands on a demo Titan Genesis V: II (the small one!). It’s the first playboat made by legendary kayaker Anthony Yap. They are not yet available yet in the UK as they are still gathering as much feedback as possible so please do come down and try it out! Our lake...

As you may have heard we will be stocking Kokatat kayak gear soon! Ant from System-X brought Jeff Turner along to Whitewater to introduce him to a premium and professional UK retailer! Not sure if we fully pulled it off but we gave it a good shot. Very interesting to learn first hand about...

We have founds some end of line/’less popular sizes’ wetsuits that we want to shift. Please just call us on 01932 247978 if your are interested so we can check they are still available. You can pay over the phone (postage will be about £5) or come down to the shop and try them on....

The JED (eye) is the new playboat from Pyranha. It replaces the Molan as their top end play boat with Connect 30 outfitting and the Molan is only now only available in Rapid Spec.  Molan V JED Rail’s… At long last and very much for the better Pyranha have finally dropped there...

For far too long now have we been waiting for it to rain and warm up so we decided to  take some new toys down to Lee Valley white water course for a bit of a test drive! With the snow still on the ground conditions were hardly ideal but its OK we run a  canoe shop so we didn’t...

How does a 3 hour river trip turn into a 3-day epic? Is Colombia safe to travel in? What’s the paddling like? What on earth is it like for a chap going on a trip with 3 ladies? Well come and let Lowri Davies tell you. She will be doing an inspiring slide show / talk and Q and A...

We have just received a huge order of brand new Palm shoes.  Here is a quick video overview for your enjoyment.  We have most sizes so pop in and check them out.     Have a look at the shoes on-line below. Palm Shoot boots Palm Rock river shoes & Palm Descender river...

If you have seen the recent kayak movie Frontier by Rush Sturges, you may well have seen some kayaking in Mexico but their trip was by no means an exploratory trip.  In fact kayakers have been exploring Mexico since the late 1980′s drawn in by the promise of sunshine, big waterfalls...

All you need to know is in this video So head to our Facebook page to enter. To enter the raffle you need to fill out you detail of the Facebook link above and make a donation to the Dartmoor Search and Rescue Team – its your donation that ‘buys’ you raffle ticket! Good...

Got New Year resolution to go off on a paddling adventure in 2012? May be your looking for a little bit of inspiration, maybe your are full of enthusiasm but don’t quite know where to go or how to get there? Well we are putting on an evening at the shop to help you out. Between us a...