WWTCC News

August

Well that really is quite a while ago! and you can be sure that we really have been very busy since then. What has been going on since then though, I can't really remember! August, apart from numerous breaking down cars was a pretty quiet mounts new's wise, the shop was busy, Mike was busy training for slalom so was Pete, although he was also doing a fair few other extra sessions trying to get ready for the Etive race and SickLine (more on them later)September came on the 18/19 we had the McConkey race at HPP, this race went rather bad for Mike..... Pete came 4th! (bit poor really!) as a whole Shepperton did really well, and Joel had maybe the pinning of the year, if we can get the video on here you will very impressed, good skills! you can check the results and rankings from the slalom year here
on the freestyle side of things....well there's not really been any water so nothing really great! Chertsey has been going off all summer long as is the norm. We did have a very funny incident with a very big and brightly coloured snake! Matt nearly met his maker. Seth has been squirt boating all summer long and has just finished 4th at the latest selection event you can read more about that here . As the summer starts to draw to a close though the Xtream season draws in starting with the new iconic Etive river race, the race had been changed this year a little and now included a team and single's race. Even though the water was a bit low this year the race still went on and was a huge success, unfortunately Pete and Graham the winners of the team race for the last two year's could not make it 3 in a row, finishing in a close second this year! T Bomb Tom romped to first place in the solo run however, good sporting fun all-round, Dave has done a good write up of the event here, well worth a read with a cup of tea!And then came the big one the Adidas SickLine, officially the unofficial world cup of the Xtream down river racing....Dose that make sense??? UKRGB would love me. It's fair to say this is an amazing event and rightly deserves it world status, it a great section of water, with the best paddlers in the world all meeting there to battle it out, and it is the finest of lines between success and failure, it's hard... I will sort out a better write up for this one, it deserves it's own. And then, just keeps coming today doesn't it. We then rolled onto Kanummesse, if you don't know this is a really big trade show for canoe kayaks and all in between. It a great show to catch up see what is new, see what is coming and do good business and have a smashing party, this included large amounts of free beer and more pork than most mortal people could probably ever imagine. Bit of a break here i've just relized all my pictures for this are at home! Bugger.... hay ho pictures to follow then...
What's next. well this weekend Pyranha host the 3rd annual Pyranha Fest in North Wales a top event see more info here.....
And last of all, we have had a great summer, so to top it all off we have a END OF SUMMER SALE for you all to enjoy. We have a blanket 15% discount on all (most)items in here, only books DVD's and magazines are exempt. Come on in say hi and bag your self a bargain. If your at Pyranha Fest Pete, Graham, Tom will all be there come along and say hello.

posted by Pete @ 1:36 AM