Sam's Blog

     So, after a few sessions in my new Level Six gear I feel now is a good time to write up a review of how I'm finding the gear! So here it goes! Here's a list of the gear I'm paddling in: Mack 2.0 dry top Hot Fuzz long sleeve thermal top Vapour short sleeve thermal top Neo lined shorts King spray skirt      To start with the top half of my gear, the Mack 2.0 is a great dry top, it allows you to move freely as well as not being loose. It's super dry and I'm actually getting off the water being dry under my gear, which is a first for a very long time! I'm using a rubber rand spray skirt for the first time ever in my paddling career and its a smooth transition other than getting used to having to put more effort into putting the skirt on. After leaving the skirt on my boat for about a week to stretch slightly it was much easier to get on and make an amazing seal with the boat due to the jagged teeth along the rand which makes great contact with th

    So last Saturday we had a Burners session at Lee Valley. The course had been changed so it was meant to be deep and good! When we got on the water we all played our way down the course to test each feature out to see if it was deep and good for what we were wanting to train for. As I'm wanting to train waves at the moment it wasn't great but there is a really good hole at the bottom of the Olympic! We also played on revolver for a bit. Jacko recommended trying Tricky Woos in this feature, which I was able to get one in the whole 2 hours training session.     I'd like to be able to combo better but with links like space to loop and lunar to loop. I also need to be able to keep practising my cartwheels as this will enable me to link from moves like loop and spaces to other moves like tricky woos or woo trickys.     We did  a few runs of the course and played on most of the features, near the bottom of the course there was a new wave which if you got the bounce right,