NSR Photo Competition - with Love it Live it

Going to this year's infamous National Student Rodeo?

Want to win some coaching for your canoe club? 

One of Love it Live it's prizes for NSR2012 is a free 3 hour coaching session* for one lucky canoe club.

For your chance to win, enter our new photo competition. The theme is 'Why our canoe club needs coaching'. From now until March 2nd we'll be accepting entries via our Facebook Page and Twitter.

How To Enter

You can either 'like' us on facebook then post your photo to our wall with the caption 'Why our canoe club needs coaching' or tweet your photo to @samloveitliveit with the tag #NSR2012.

We'll accept one entry per person (not per university). The winner will announced at the NSR party on Saturday March 3rd. You must be a competitor and there on the night to claim your prize. The deadline for submitting your entry is 6pm on March 2nd 2012.

The competition will be judged by the LiLi team, we'll be looking for entertaining photos that fit the theme. 

**Love it Live it will also be giving away a 'Experience the White Nile' coaching package worth £799 in a free raffle at rodeo itself. Come and find the LiLi stand on Saturday March 2nd to enter!**

Photo Competition Prize Details

The prize includes a detailed briefing, an on water session, video analysis and a written review for each participant. For more information on the coaching that LiLi has to offer check out the following link:

Love it Live it - Freestyle Coaching Sessions

*The prize is a 3 hour coaching session for a group of 1 to 4 people. It is is valid for one year after NSR 2012. The session will take place at Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham on a date agreed upon by Love it Live it.  

Experience the Ottawa - with Love it Live it

After a fantastic trip to the Ottawa River in August 2011, we've decided to make Canada a regular destination for Love it Live it. Online now are all the details regarding this trip; check it out at the following link:

Experience the Ottawa - Trip Info

And if you'd like to view some more photos to whet your appetite for this awesome white water destination then please view the gallery here:

Experience the Ottawa - Photo Gallery 

What to learn more about this, or any of what Love it Live it has to offer? Then email us on:

info@loveitliveit.co.uk

LiLi 2012 Trip Dates!

Love it Love it has updated it's calendar for the 2012 season and the dates are now on the website for the following packages:

Experience the White Nile, Uganda

Experience the Zambezi, Zambia 

Experience the Rivers of Nepal 

Experience Northern Thailand 

Freestyle Development Camps 

These dates are flexible. We will alter the length and start dates to suit your needs wherever possible, and arrange a completely new date if that's what you require. Drop us an email if the date you want is not there... info@loveitliveit.co.uk

For more info, check out trips page on the website

Following the success of our first 'Experience the Ottawa, Canada' trip this summer, we will now be running these trips regularly. It's a beautiful place and an amazing river! More details on this trip coming soon... 

Kayak coaching gift vouchers for Christmas

Looking for a Christmas gift for the kayaker in your life? Then why not buy them a coaching session?

You can chose either a 3 hour session, a full day or two full days of top quality coaching.

Our coaching sessions are flexible and tailored to suit the individual's needs, whether it's freestyle, rolling or river running, LiLi can help. Sam is currently one of the coaches for the GBR Freestyle Kayaking team so he knows his stuff when it comes to all things playboating!  For more details about what's on offer please check out the following link:

Love it Live it kayak coaching

We also have gift certificates available for all our coaching camps and trips abroad.

If you would like to purchase a LiLi gift voucher, then please email us on info@loveitliveit.co.uk

Happy Holidays!

Emily

emily@loveitliveit.co.uk

GB Team Selection 2011

Next year the World Freestyle Kayak Championships will be held in Plattling, Germany and this past weekend saw two selection events take place in Nottingham the results of which will help decide the 2011 GBR Team.

The men's team has seen a few changes this year with newly turned senior James Weight winning an event and multiple time team member Dicky Chrimes not entering. Going into the last league event at Hurley things can still change. Sam Anderson has done the maths and has posted where things currently stand on the SquareRock blog.

As Sam explains, this year's system for deciding the team is a different to the usual. It started back in May...

There’s 3 parts to it with your best result in 2 parts making up your overall score. Part 1 is the new British Championships League ranking which comes from paddlers best 2 results from 4 events (Tryweryn in May, Boulters in July, Nottingham in Oct and Hurley in Nov). Part 2 was the Twin Waves competition and Part 3 was the Tardis competition last weekend (23/24 Oct). The points given for each placing are: 1st 50, 2nd 47, 3rd 45, 4th 43, 5th 42, 6th 41, 7th 40, 8th 39…..

Full results of the both Saturday's and Sunday's events can now be seen on Alan Ward's blog: Liquid Projects

In the women's event, myself and Claire O'Hara won an event each securing our places on the team. Nicola Beeby and Jen Chrimes are currently tied for the 3rd spot. This year, 12-time team member, Fiona 'Flea' Jarvie, has decided retire from international competition. Flea has always been such a strong and positive member of the team and UK freestyle committee, things won't quite be the same without her!

On a personal level, I'm excited to be back on the team and am looking to another World Championships!

Text and photos by Emily Wall

LiLi Experience the Zambezi 2010

I've just got back from Zambia where I've been running a 2 week ' Experience the Zambezi' trip. I had a great bunch of clients - Dave, Kat, Chris and Ross. We had a great time on and off the water and really got stuck into everything that was on offer in and around Livingstone. Here's a bunch of photo's from our trip - thanks to all the guys for helping get some great shots!!

-Before my LiLi trip started we had some great levels for surfing below rapid 7-

-The start of our multi-day trip, below vic falls-

-Ross, Will and Kat still happy despite the raft portage-

-Ross, Dave and Will stoked to be under Vic Falls with the Eastern cataract behind us-

-Chris ripping up the wave at rapid 2-

-Will on the lip, with Dave and Ross following at 5-

-Chris getting stuck in on Upper Moemba-

-Darren showing us how it's done in a gear raft at Upper Moemba-

-The 'African Limo', loading up the truck after another day's kayaking-

-Great for fitness, but maybe not quite as enjoyable as the river, the hike out at 10-

-About to tuck into a local Zambian meal at Mukuma's house-

-Elephant checking us out on our 'Booze Cruise', or wait was it a 'Sunset Safari'?!-

-Ross and Chris went on a walking Safari on their day off and saw Rhino's-

-Chris, Dave and Kat also went walking with big cat's. Hmmmm-

-Cooking dinner in the middle of the Batoka gorge after another great day kayaking. Now that's what it's all about!!!-

So another Zambezi trip has been and gone. We had a great crew and great levels and great times.

Thanks to Zambezi.com for providing our transport and multi-day raft hire, and to Ben Campbell for help with logistics.

Prague, Antarctica and the European Championships

With the second World Cup cancelled, we bailed on a flooded Plattling, and headed to Czech Republic, and Prague. The river was also in insane flood, but at least the sun was out so we checked out the city:



Following a good couple of days in Prague we flew to the Antarctic



(cough... Prague Zoo.. cough)


Back to Germany and Plattling, fortunately the floods had subsided, the sun was shining and Emily paddled flat out for few days. I was impressed with Emily and how much her boating has come on recently, the feature suited her style well, and she was throwing all sorts of moves and going big:






Emily went back home for her sisters wedding, and I drove the big red post van to Lienz, in Austria.

Just as I crossed the border to Austria, it started raining...

It stopped, then it started, then it stopped, then it started... it didn't actually properly stop until ten days later when I entered the next country!

Still, Lienz was host to the European Championships, and I was there to coach the British team, and to try and convince them that winning some medals was a good idea. Fortunately, they agreed and pulled out an impressive 8 podium places, which put GB at the top of the nations in the medal count. Lots of top performances so well done guys and girls! The team:



Coaching 20+ athletes at a high pressure competition certainly keeps you busy, but it is very rewarding and exciting work for a coach. I loved every minute of it.



European Championships over, and medals to everyone but the Squirters, who weren't recognised by the ECA. Not ideal, but it was almost worth it to see the earbashing Reevesy gave the head of the ECA afterwards!

Time for an explore of some more of eastern Europe... but thats for the next blog post.