The Upper Tryweryn can appear pretty intimidating but we can help you to tame it! Spend 2 days in the hands of a super experienced and versatile coach focussing on drive and acceleration to grow your confidence in what works. We'll have you styling those rapids not just surviving them!
Price: £250. Minimum age: 18 (Please call to discuss booking for someone under 18).
Duration: 2 days.
Prerequisites: grade 3 experience
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Spend 2 days working on core white water skills: breaking in, breaking out and ferry gliding. Come and have some fun on moving water! Just be warned - it is addictive!
Price: £250
Age: 18+ (Please call to discuss booking for an under 18)
pre-requisites: you should be a confident flat water paddler able to move your your kakak around, and be reasonably happy capsizing and exiting under water.
Dates:
17/18 May 2025
Off to the Alps? Here's a couple of days to prepare you for the bigger volume stuff.
We will help you to hone your alpine skills and give you some tips for building fitness working up to your big trip.
Price: £250
Minimum age: 18 (please call to discuss making a booking for an under 18)
Duration: 2 days
Pre-requisites: You should have some grade 3 experience
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Come and join Matt (GB Freestyle) for a day of learning how to be upside down and round and round with a smile on your face!
Price: £150
Minimum age: 18 (Please call to discuss a booking for an under 18)
Duration: 1 day
Pre-requisites: You should have a roll that works most of the time in this environment and be confident surfing.
Dates:
13 July 2025
Make a weekend of it and book the Play the River day also - £250 for both days. Give us a call to book 01678 521083
Spend the day honing your grade 2 (3) skills with a view to developing your independence - this may be to become a more pro-active group member, or growing your confidence, skills and knowledge to start your peer paddling journey.
Price: £150
Minimum age: 18 (please call to discuss a booking for an under 18)
Duration: 1 day
Pre-requisites: You should be confident on grade 2 (happy to break in / out and ferry glide on grade 2 water)
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Are you super excited for winter paddling?! We'll spend two days preparing for the white water season: concentrating on safe and effective peer paddling and group awareness.
Price: £250
Minimum Age: 18 ( please call to discuss booking for an under 18)
Duation: 2 days
Pre-requisites: You should have grade 3 experience & a roll that works 50% of the time in moving water.
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Matt (GB Freestyle) will show you the best play spotsand have you throwing your boat around for fun in no time!A greart introdcution to treating the river as a playground.
Price: £150
Minimum age: 18 (please call to discuss making a booking for an under 18)
Duration: 1 day
Pre-requisites: You should have started to surf, and be happy breaking in & out and rolling reliably in this environment.
Dates:
12 July 2025
Make a weekend of it and book the Freestyle day as well - £250 for both days. Give us a call to book 01678 521083
Having a super qualified and experienced coach means we can tailor the content to the individual. Let us help you to build your confidence alongside your skills and really get the most from 2 days on the water.
Price: £250
Minimum age: 18 (please call to disucss booking for someone under 18)
Duration: 2 days
Pre-requisites: You should have some grade 2 experience.
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Do any of these resonate with you?
You've paddled the Upper with friends before and would just like a bit more confidence.
You've never paddled the upper before and just want someone to show you the lines and give you a few pointers.
You want to be responsible for yourself and you'd like some feedback.
Whatever your motivation, this is a day with a suiper qualified and experienced coach to hone your skills and improve confidence.
Price: £150
Minimum age: 18 (Please call to disucss booking for an under 18)
Duration: 1 day
Pre-requisites: you should have some grade 3 experience (including Lee Valley, CIWW etc)
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North Wales has some of the best white water options in the UK. If water levels and group ability allow, rivers such as the Conwy, Ogwen, Glaslyn Gorge and Tryweryn are all possibilities for both days.
However, if the water doesn't arrive locally, we'll meet you in other regions with classic white water!
Price: £250 if local
Minimum age: 18 (Please call to discuss booking for someone uhnder 18)
Duration: 2 days
Pre-requisites: You should be confident on grade 3+ and have a roll that works most of the time in this environment.
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This canoe weekend course covers all the key skills required to comfortably and reliably paddle the lower Tryweryn in your open canoe. This could be tandem or solo, day one is spent on some simple grade water really refining the required skills to confidently descend the lower. Day two is a descent from the centre to Bala looking at the logistics and decision making involved in paddling a canoe in this grade and above.
Price: £250
Minimum age: 18 (Please call to disucss booking for an under 18)
Duration: 2 days
Pre-requisites: comfortable and experienced in a canoe on grade two.
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Take a look at our range of skills courses. We feel there's something for everyone but if you can't find what you're looking for, just give us a call. We know that sometimes you just want something different, like maybe some 1:1 or to enjoy being challenged as a small group of friends. Our well qualified, experienced and friendly coaches are on hand to enrich your paddling.
Bespoke coaching per half day
£160 1-1
plus £40 per additional person
Bespoke coaching per day
£275 1-1
plus £55 per additional person
Please contact us to discuss booking for someone under 18.
If you don't have all of your own kit, we can provide most items for a small hire charge.
CALL US ON 01678 521083
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