Nottingham Coaching and Training...

The blog has been a bit quiet of late, so I thought I'd post a few pictures and words about what we have been up to since our Indonesia trip: We have been working hard!

For the most part we have been based in Nottingham and I have been busy with coaching and sorting out the summer trips. We have introduced new individual coaching sessions to what we offer at LiLi, and its been great to have such a good response both with bookings and with feedback afterwards.

Many of these coaching sessions have been specialist freestyle coaching, but we have also run introduction to white water, rolling clinics and more advanced river running skills. I have also been working quite a bit coaching the GB team, who are getting ready for this year's Europeans in June. Its great fun to coach such able paddlers, and challenging technically as a coach to try and help some of the UK's top kayaker.

For more info on the coaching sessions check out the new page on the website here... click click


We have been working with video a lot, which has helped us give quality feedback to the paddlers and has increased both the paddlers and coaches technical understanding.



As well as the work, Emily has been training hard. She's progressed plenty, learning some new moves and is really refining and developing her playboating. She's looking forward to a load of competitions she has coming up soon both in the UK and on the continent.


I am also very glad to be the better side of a third shoulder surgery. It has been a long, grueling and often painful injury and recovery. I am still a way off proper boating, but everything seems to be heading in the right direction, my physio and surgeon seem to think I can get back to full fitness, and I'm staying positive, and doing everything in my power to make sure that it happens!