Claire O’Hara has won two Gold medals for Great Britain at the World Freestyle Kayaking Championships and been crowned Ladies Freestyle Kayaking World Champion and Ladies Squirt Boating World Champion 2011. The 2011 ICF World Freestyle Kayaking Championships took place on the River Isar in Platling Germany with 222 athletes Read more…
Over the next two weeks twenty-five of the world’s most talented, most versatile, and most progressive kayakers will be competing in a multi-disciplined, 6-stage competition on spectacular whitewater across Quebec. James ‘Pringles’ Bebbington will be representing GB, and back home the freestyle and river running community will be rooting for him all the way. Read more…
Very rarely, these days, do you get to paddle a completely new playspot. And if you do, so often you’ll have heard about the spot from your fellow paddlers; they’ll tell you about the holes, the waves, and the moves that you can stick in each one. However, on those rare Read more…
Sweetwater will be will be joining forces with James Reeves team manager to help coach a new Level 6 UK pro-team under the wing of the highly successful ASP programme. Level 6 are currently looking for 5 freestyle kayakers to join the team, if you would like to be considered send your paddling profile or Read more…
I’m proud to announce that Sweetwater ASP will be supporting the following UK athletes in 2011-2012: James Weight Joe Bradly Bren Orton James Benns Claire O’Hara Gabby Bates Rachel Bovic The Sweetwater Athlete Support Programme (ASP) was established to provide athletes identified with international potential with the necessary opportunities to achieve Read more…
Claire O´Hara a member of the Sweetwater Athlete Suport Program (ASP) will be featuring in the BBC Inside Out programme on Monday BBC1 at 7:30pm. I´ll also be making a guest appearance. The programme is running a feature on white water kayaking in England and has been following Claire’s activities for a few Read more…
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…
Sweetwater will be running a 2 day intensive freestyle course exclusively for female freestyle enthusiasts. Dennis Newton (GB National Coach) and Claire O’Hara (2010 European Silver Medallist) will be providing a coaching programme aimed at establishing a solid foundation of manoeuvres that will leave no place of the feature untouched Read more…
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…
The Speed Loader takes the hassle out of repacking the rope after use. The bag throws easily and accurately and is bright green for high visibility. So what makes the Speed Loader work better than other bags? The bottom of the bag is flat so that it will sit upright Read more…