Last week I completed my medal collection with the European Freestyle Championship Gold. Its taken me a while to put pen to paper but here it is a slightly different style of blog to my usual approach as I wrap up my experiences from the event. Enjoy; http://claireohara.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/8-years-on-i-won.html Claire O’hara celebrates winning Read more
Claire O’hara shares her experiences of learning freestyle tricks whilst preparing for the European Championships during her recent visit to Plattling, Germany… Now, I have noticed over the last 16 years of freestyle kayaking that freestyle is an exceptionally hard sport. The tricks are not easy to learn. They take months Read more
I’m currently in Plattling, Germany and have just finished running a custom ADP freestyle camp for the Finish National Freestyle Team. The programme was based around effective training, training to compete and competing to win. It was great to be invited to work with the team again, I had an Read more
It’s been a fun week of freestyle coaching at Nottingham National White Water Course. We had a broad mix of ability levels from beginners mastering their first tricks to National Team paddlers preparing for this seasons competition circuit…
Only 4 days until online entry closes… It looks like heavy rain forecast for the next few days 🙂 So if you haven’t yet entered follow the link below and do it today. Entries close at 09:00 on Monday 9th November 2015. Link to Hurley Classic 2015 Booking Please note that Read more
Great to have Bren Orton as a guest-coach in Scotland for our ‘West-coast Classics’ this year. Here’s some great shots from our recent trip, taken during a waterfall skills session…
Great to see UK squirt boating growing again in popularity as it’s such an amazing discipline of freestyle kayaking. A big part of this is the inspiration of the recent 2015 ICF Canoe Freestyle World Championships. I was at HPP coaching Ottilie Robinson-Shaw (GB Jnr Squad) a few days ago. Read more
Congratulations to everyone in Team GB and all of the competitors at the 2015 World Championships. It’s been an amazing 6 weeks in Canada with so many great memories. I’m proud to have been able to be part of your journey and experiences in both training and competing. I would Read more
I’ve been training hard during my spare time whilst here and am stoked with my progress. I’m now consistently scoring above 800 and occasionally close to a 1000 points. Garburator is a very physical wave, it takes a lot of energy and focus to maintain a fast tempo between tricks. Read more
It’s been a great few days freestyle training in the sun and surf with Lowri Davies (Team GB)…
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