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Dan Wilkinson

Author's details

Date registered: January 3, 2012
URL: http://www.danwilkinson.org

Biography

A whitewater kayaker and adventure sports coach, based in the Lake District, travelling around the globe for work and adventure

Latest posts

  1. A Perfect Union — June 15, 2022
  2. What Am I Going to Do With All This Time? — January 12, 2021
  3. High Water — October 4, 2019
  4. We are all between swims… — November 1, 2017
  5. Help Save Our Rivers! — May 31, 2017

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15
Jun

A Perfect Union

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Initially, I got the Ozone to spice up my local runs when heading out between work stints. The more I have paddled it, the more I realise what an all-around capable boat it is. I’ve taken it down respectable continuous Grade 4, ran leadership provider orientations from it, and spent a lot of time recklessly vertical. I felt as though it was time to allow it to show how versatile it is.

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12
Jan

What Am I Going to Do With All This Time?

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During the UK lockdown, we focused fully on a single project. Authoring a book for coaches of all Adventure Sports disciplines, that draws together academic research, real-world experience, and current coaching practice in one volume…

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04
Oct

High Water

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As we transition from summer flows into the winter storm season our river options (here in the UK at least) widen. There have been a few posts on social media, both of boats and kit lost on high water runs, as well as questions from folk looking for alternatives to their usual runs, as they …

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01
Nov

We are all between swims…

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I took my first swim for quite some time last weekend, and thought I’d share some musings on it with you all. (If you want to just see a beating, scroll to the bottom of the page, cringe and then go practice with a throw line so you’re as accurate as Jonny was!) As a …

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31
May

Help Save Our Rivers!

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Kayaking has given me so much. From friendships cemented with epics in far-flung places, to a way out of inner city London as a youngster to experience a different way and pace of life in the French Alps. It’s provided me with a sport I am good at (I definitely didn’t excel at football at …

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31
Oct

Going Home

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I learnt to paddle in the middle of London, perhaps not where most people consider the most auspicious start to a career in whitewater… The youth club I started at, Islington Boat Club, was based in the middle of town, on the Regents Canal. It was there I spent a long time just messing about …

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03
May

Romania

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I’m just back from a trip with a difference to Romania, where we’ve been paddling and exploring the Carpathian Mountains, with a Romanian team of paddlers, arranged by one of Pyranhas’ newest dealers, the excellent http://www.barciinbagaje.ro/. We found some excellent quality Whitewater, in a fairly unexplored and very friendly and extremely pretty area of Europe. …

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16
Jan

Granite Logistics – A guide to kayaking in Galicia

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The Galicia Region

  During winter’s stern grip, UK paddlers daydream with plans for their summer sojourn to warmer climes to escape the gloom.  Fear not, for there is something more practical you can do to escape during these dark months than braving your local run in the snow.  An old guidebook in the dark recesses of Pete …

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28
Dec

Shiva Vs Burn – A comparison

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As a committed long-term addict to the Burn / Everest series of boats I had mixed feelings when I heard that Pyranha were developing a new large boat. These feelings were compounded when I paddled the first prototype in North Wales, the boat just didn’t feel right, more like a creek boat from a decade …

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28
Nov

Below and Beyond Mount Kenya

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Following on from the successful 2009 Below and Beyond Machu Picchu Expedition (http://belowandbeyondmachupicchu09.wordpress.com/) to Peru, the team were looking for another destination that would offer excellent whitewater, adventure and a break from the British weather. After some research we had a destination that fitted all of our criteria – Kenya. The destination gave us everything we were looking …

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