Spanish National Freestyle Team

I’ve just recently spent two days providing performance analysis and coaching with the Spanish Freestyle Team. It was a pleasure to work with an old colleague of mine Andrew ‘Jacko’ Jackson, now team coach for the Spanish National Team.  Over the two days we  profiled the athletes, recording various aspects of their performance before formulating a strategy to further enhance Read more…

SWE Freestyle Team

In a 2 weeks time I’ll be heading out to join the Swedish Freestyle Team for the final build up to the European Championships, Austria, Lienz – Volcanic ash allowing! Sweetwater has been working with Erik  Westberg their team manger to further enhance their national team training to better support Sweden’s growing freestyle talent in Read more…

Freestyle Coaching

I was down at Nottingham white-water course today freestyle coaching. Claire O’hara dropped in for her fortnightly training session. We had great session and all’s  on track to achieve our goals for this year. The aim of these drop-in sessions is to support or assist competition or recreational paddlers in overcoming hurdles in their performance or Read more…

Skills Section Update

Sweetwater has been working on developing an on-line learning resource for freestyle and river running for sometime now and I’m happy to announce that phase 1 of creating the content is now finished and phase 2 is in progress . Over the next week we’ll be uploading the feature onto our website for a Read more…