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Canolfan Tryweryn News

National White Water Centre to Focus on Rescue Training

Over recent years the National White Water Centre has developed an excellent reputation and expertise in the delivery of both white water safety and rescue training to the recreational sector and Rescue 3 International swiftwater/flood rescue training to the professional rescue sector. At the same time we have delivered a full programme of BCU/WCA canoe and kayak coaching courses at an intermediate and advanced level.

In order to allow for future development of our specialist knowledge and unique training infrastructure we have decided that from January 2009 we will no longer be offering canoe and kayak coaching courses at the centre. This will allow us to concentrate on three core areas of training provision:-

1) Delivery of Rescue 3 International swiftwater, flood and technical rope rescue training courses.

2) Delivery of specialist whitewater safety and rescue courses for canoeists and kayakers including the BCU White Water Safety and Rescue course and the CT River Safety Day.

3) Delivery of BCU raft guide training and assessment courses.

The centre and Rescue 3 (UK) have an excellent reputation as the leading provider of specialist water and flood rescue training in the UK and Ireland and we will be continuing to develop our provision, expertise and facilities in this field. Due to growth in this sector it has become increasingly clear operationally that we cannot deliver the high levels of specialist rescue training that we now do and run a kayak and canoe coaching operation at the same time. In order to remain the leading provider of specialist water and flood rescue training in the UK and Ireland we need to focus our efforts on our core business.

We will continue to deliver those programmes that we have unique facilities and expertise to deliver and the possibilities for future development and expansion within the rescue training sector are very exciting.

The centre would like to thank the many canoe and kayak coaching students who have attended our courses over the last 10 years and we look forward to continuing to meet any water rescue training needs they may have.

Paul O'Sullivan

Director of Coaching and Rescue 3 (UK)

29 October 2008.

FREE PADDLING

The Welsh Canoeing Association announces that paddling is free at the National Whitewater Centre... read more here

Parental Consent

Parental consent is now required for all customers who are under the age of 18 and are participating in Canolfan Tryweryn activities... click here for more

CT Photo Competition

We have finally found 6 winners for the 2006/7 CT Photo competition!
Thank you to everyone that entered and congratulations to the winners!

The winning photos are(in alphabetical order):

Photographer: Graham Cranwell

Description: International Start, CT

Photographer: David Harvey

Description: Early morning on the Riviére Dumoine, Quebec

Photographer: Steve Hughes

Description: Paul,one of our party,had gone all the way down from the fish screen to the international wave. At the get out he submerged on the last drop, really slowly and with such elegance, his paddle never left his hand

Photographer: Sarah Nash

Description: Tom Parker in Verzasca

Photographer: Robert Piwko

Decription: none

Photographer: Danuta Wdziekousk

Description: none

• All profits generated from the operations of Canolfan Tryweryn are used to fund the work of the Welsh Canoeing Association (a non-profit making organisation), to develop Canoesport throughout Wales (subsidised coaching courses for clubs, negotiating and maintaining access on other rivers, supporting national squads in freestyle, slalom, river racing, polo etc)

Do I need to hold a qualification to paddle on the Tryweryn?

Individual kayakers and canoeists do not need to hold a formal qualification to be able to paddle on the Tryweryn. However, all river users must be capable of paddling on the river and must sign in at the centre to confirm that they understand the nature of the river and are sufficiently competent to paddle on the river. Remember, the lower river is more remote and ‘wilder’ in nature than the upper section of the river.

Should paddlers wish to access the river and they are not sufficiently skilled/experienced to canoe/kayak on the river they must be accompanied and supervised by a suitably qualified coach (BCU Level 4 or above in the relevant discipline). The coach will sign in the individual/group they are supervising and thus confirm in writing their responsibility for the individual/group. The Level 4 requirement applies to both the upper section (graded as 3/4), and to the lower river (graded 2/3 with one grade 4 rapid).

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