WWTCC News

Ho Ho Ho Christmas time is here

2009-12-24T05:25:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas every one. Thank you for a great year we hope to see you again soon.
Have a great Christmas break see you all in 2010.

We are back open on the 29th....

Christmas Opening Hours

2009-12-16T03:15:00.000-08:00

Christmas Opening Hours.

Happy Christmas everyone, Thank you for a fantastic year. And as I write this the snow is coming down hard outside! how very Festive....

A word from our man in Africa.

2009-12-15T01:37:00.000-08:00

From a cold, wet, dark November to an action packed hot December back on the Nile.
The water level is pretty low at the moment but that’s not such a bad thing as different waves and rapids appear and disappear as the day goes on. Club wave works in the morning from about 7am till 1pm.

The Legend of Best...

Club is a large piley wave, pretty consistent but as the day goes on it becomes more and more trashy and surgey, until it hits about 1pm then it’s not worth paddling. There’s a gap of about 3 to 4 hours where neither Club or Nile Special work properly, and then at around 4 pm Nile Special kicks in, a large peaking wave with a pile. When Nile Special kicks up you get an awesome steep green wave where any big wave move is possible. The Gui-Gui Prod is an incredible boat the air you can generate is substantially more than any other boat on the river, landing a big move flat is violent and your back defiantly knows about it…but its so worth it.

I’m seeing the river from a different perspective this time round as I am working as a raft guide, so it’s not just my self I have to navigate safely down its also 6 or 7 others as well. Big white water, sun, pineapple, flips and broken bones are the order of the day on the river and none of that gets boring. The money I earn from rafting pays off my tab at NRE so its happy days.

Life off the water consists of mainly eating, drinking, socialising and trips back and forth to town to buy a new pair of sunny that broke on the river the day before.

Photo by Julian Stocker.

For this and other exciting stories from the life and times of Jon Best have a gander at http://www.jonbest.blogspot.com/

Lots of new things in store.

2009-12-10T07:52:00.000-08:00

Lots of new things in store this week!

Check out the on-line store for great deals on these new items *SHOP*
for the Rebel LooK HerE The 2010 Burn *HERE*

For Palm's new B/A's Go have a peek at THIS...

And If you need to keep your feet warm and well coved over the Festive season then I think you should probably have a mosey at this little lot! RIGHT HERE.

Hope to see you all soon. Merry Christmas Ho Ho Ho Ho......

Todays level.

2009-12-08T09:21:00.000-08:00

A picture is worth a thousand words. Shepperton today.

Crisp Start.

2009-12-01T01:57:00.001-08:00

Scraping the frost off your car is never a great way to start your paddling session. But if Shepperton is running then morning and night sessions are rather the norm. Shepperton this morning is running on 7 gates with a fairly high pool level making a good fast wave / hole type feature, good size shoulders for throwing big blunts and that kinda jazz. We have managed to excel our self in one way particular way today! Quite possibly the worst collection of photos I’ve ever seen of Shepperton, give you an idea of what it’s like I guess. As for Sunbury weir how knows? There aren’t hot showers and Tea for when you get off so I haven’t been. Think there is a bit of a wave though.

So there you have it. A cold start to the day, but a good one! Now it’s back to the shop to drink lots of tea and eat my new favorite food CLIF BAR Energy Bars (Yummmmmmm) back tonight for the late session, if your there, Guess we will see you there. Have a good day all,

How has pete done this?

2009-11-25T06:20:00.000-08:00

Now I'm not sure if this Borras fella or the fishermen are actors in this film! Surly real land owners and fisherman can't be that naive, single minded, blinkered in there opinions regarding paddling and river access? Hopefully with the Rev Caffyn & God on our side we must win in the end! Well done Pete, Great little film.

NOW IN

2009-11-25T04:05:00.000-08:00

After a bit of delay the new Palm B/A's have today arrived!

The Extrem Vest evolution continues, setting new standards in safety and useability. Our flagship front-opening PFD with masses of storage.

Features include:

• Flex Formed Foam panel wraps around torso
• Quad-buckle front entry
• Large, zipped padded front cargo pocket with internal divider
• Chest mounted zipped knife pockets
• Internal rear padded pocket for documents, safety gear or hydration bladder
• Tough grip panels at shoulder for boat carrying
• 3D anti ride-up waist belt
• Easyglide strap adjustment throughout
• Continuous loop failsafe shoulder straps tested to 500kg with strap keeper pockets
• Removable chest harness with quick release cam buckle and load spreader
• Welded O-ring with Velcro retainer
• Dual cowtail parks
• Solas reflective detail on shoulders, front and rear panels
Get one HERE.

The next step in River PFDs, a pullover vest offering full floatation with maximum articulation and safety features.

Features include:

• Flex Formed Foam panel wraps around torso
• Quad-buckle front entry
• Large, zipped padded front cargo pocket with internal divider
• Chest mounted zipped knife pockets
• Tough grip panels at shoulder for boat carrying
• 3D anti ride-up waist belt
• Easyglide strap adjustment throughout
• Continuous loop failsafe shoulder straps tested to 500kg with strap keeper pockets
• Removable and reversible chest harness with quick release cam buckle and load spreader
• Welded O-ring with Velcro retainer
• Dual cowtail parks
• Solas reflective detail on shoulders, front and rear panels
Get one HERE.

Both B/A's look and fit great! Just in time for the winter season & Christmas. Ho Ho Ho...

When the Kids come home!

2009-11-18T05:52:00.000-08:00

It is that time of year again, the rain is finally falling from the sky and rivers are staring to rise. This means two things here Jon will soon arrive to outfit his boat and Mike will have to start repairing fixing / welding lots of broken old boat’s, Oh and at last we can go for a good paddle.

Outfitting sorted! Off to Hurley.

So on Sunday Hurley was on a great 3 gates, a strange layout as it was on the 3 next to the wall which made the middle wave gate slightly more piley but still with some nice green shoulders. Popping back down today I expected the same sort of level, only to find the water had dropped substantially and Hurley was back down to 2 gates. No grumbles as we slid down the steps and made the best of a good level, with a big green right shoulder, pan am's, donkey flips and clean blunts we all making an appearance.
With the 3rd selection event looming on the horizon I did feel quite guilty just using the wave gate and not even having one ride in the hole, but with way water levels are looking I have heard it said that the weekends event may not run.
Updates on the event and wether it will run will be posted on tvfreestylers

Jon

In the mean time it's back to repairing broken boats, drinking tea & spending many hours looking at BBC Weather & Met Check. Where to paddle next?

“Burn” down and get a winter bargain!

2009-11-11T08:50:00.000-08:00

With the immanent release of the new 2010 Burn, Pyranha have cut the price of the Old boat. In stock we have two medium Burns left, 1 Blue/white, 1 Lime/yellow, (full Connect 30 outfitting) these boats now have a special price of £670.00! When they have gone they have gone for good. If you want a proper winter deal get in quick.

No further discounts apply on these two boats….

We also have a Prototype M Burn here at the shop, if you would like to come in and give it a paddle on the lake please do, we are taking pre orders for the new 2010 Burn NOW. The M Burn will be available in two / three week’s time. The Large version a week or so after that, and the small a week or so after again.

The Burn at home, going hard!

GBR Selection Part Deux

2009-11-11T04:11:00.000-08:00

So the rain gods were kind to us last week, depending how you look at it! And the river levels stayed low.

HPP was once again the location for the selection event but in a different feature this time. The Tardis was in good condition and showcased some huge air by many of the paddlers. As soon as the results are published we will put them up, but in a nut shell Pringel won and Jon came a good close second! At the AGM on Saturday night they discussed what will happen with the results if Hurley isn't high enough to use as the 3rd event. But the rain is starting to fall hard……. We will have to wait and see with that one?
Well done to all the paddlers at the weekend.

The Jnr. men doing there thing.

Judging can be a thankless task sometimes. Well done all.

The Crowed show there appreciation for that one!

JB warming up the only way he knows. Going BIG!

2009-11-03T02:08:00.000-08:00

Just a little e-mail sent around today from Liquid logic, interesting?

We are constantly looking at ways to make our kayaks better and safer. We were the first to install metal grab bars on the decks of our kayaks (now an industry standard) that make attaching a carabineer quick and easy. We use the largest molded inserts in the industry (this is what grab handles are bolted to) to increase the pull strength during a rescue situation. Now, we are the first kayak manufacture to introduce “Rotanium XL” (that is what we are calling it in-house and for a really great reason – it hasn’t broken yet!) the best and toughest plastic money can buy. Rotanium XL is high density polyethylene on steroids. We tested “Rotanium XL” for 6 months, using a hand picked group of creekers known for their abusive paddling, before introducing it this past January. Yes you read that correctly, “Rotanium XL” was introduced in January 2009 in all Liquidlogic kayaks so it is in what you currently have in stock. We have been keeping stats on “Rotanium XL” for the last 16 months, starting with our R&D test group, and have had only had three warranty claims with this resin. One was a Jefe Grande that ran Green River’s infamous Gorilla unmanned, backwards, upside down and full of water - it only bent, no breaks. The other two were Biscuits that had bent slightly from doing loops in a shallow hole, which did not truly constitute a warranty but we wanted to check them out. We thought it best to do a soft introduction with you, our dealers, to keep from dating any existing boats that you may have had in stock and to further evaluate Rotanium XL before spewing it to the market.

New Stickers & some Run and Jump.

2009-10-20T06:08:00.001-07:00

Just a quick one to let you know that we now stock run and jump clothing, T-shirts, hats available now. Some very warm looking jackets coming soon! Come in, try it on, and buy some.

And the new look shop sticker is now available in two sizes, small or big in black or white. Very smart.

Ciao for now.

Technology, Oh dear...

2009-10-16T07:09:00.001-07:00

I hope I don’t revive a mountain of e-mails now say “No you can’t” But I am pretty sure, almost 100% that WWTCC.COM now works fine on I-Phones look us up and have a look! Pretty cool think you can buy things via it too.

Continuing to test.

2009-10-07T08:33:00.000-07:00

Well nearly a year since we first started to play with the new Pyranha play boat it finally nearly there, and at long last I got to give it a blast down at Chertsey! Not the “world class” feature you might have hoped to push the boat on, but it is the place we paddle most of the year, and the place I’ve paddled, nearly every play boat to come to the market over the last 7 years. Chertsey’s not a great test of hull speed or looseness, but it is a great test for seeing how stable and controllable the boat is on its end! And good to see how it performs on moves like loop’s, loner orbits, tricky Woo’s. And all that sort of stuff the youth of today like to do in a boat in a sticky hole!! Things are looking very promising, and the small changes planned for the next version should hopefully see the boat nearly done. Then hopefully not to long before production can begin. Pictures are all pretty poor! What can I say, it dark when we leave work now.

The PDQ, Pretty Dam Quick!

The Naturist.

2009-10-06T02:00:00.000-07:00

I don't know if anyone has seen these before, but at the moment this guy is making our day fly along! very funny, think Bear Grylls mixed with some Chuckle Brothers. find more here

Competion week… End!

2009-10-05T08:57:00.000-07:00

Was a busy weekend just gone, Graham finally finished in a very respectable 43 at the Sick-Line race and was top UK paddler! Good effort my friend. The rest of us spent our time at HPP taking part in the first GB selection (freestyle) event of the year, I think I finished a fairly lowly 22nd but had a wonderful time paddling the new Pyranha PDQ prototype. Jon paddled much better and came 7th, Mr. Pringle blew every one else away with a winning score of 1050, very impressive to watch. Miss Jennifer Chrimes took the ladies title with 3 excellent solid rides (beating most of the senior men!). All in all a top few days sport, next stop, back to slalom (Llandysi).

Sick-Line results Here:

As soon as I get some pictures from HPP are pop them up.

Sick-Line is nearly here!

2009-10-02T07:50:00.000-07:00

Graham Milton, Matt Cook & Deb Pinnager all fling the flag for team GB. Good Luck all!

Arron, Lucy & new baby Beatrice

2009-10-01T09:53:00.000-07:00

Congratulations, mother and daughter are both home now and doing very well.

Dose that make us a success then?

2009-10-01T09:37:00.000-07:00

"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do."

Bob Dylan.

oh, Twitter........ what fun.

2009-09-29T09:10:00.000-07:00

Yes we now also have a twitter page! search for whitewatertcc and become a follower. Twitter.

E.R.R. 2oo9

2009-09-29T07:57:00.000-07:00

Is it possible to go to Scotland and just have a normal paddling trip? In my experience no! This trip was no different it was a proper paddling adventure. The reason for heading far far north again was to take part in the 2nd ever Active River Race, the Active for thoughts who don’t know is a corking little river that flows west off Rannoch More in the highlands of Scotland. Last year the race experienced 18 hours of solid rain before the event witch turned the nice little river into a raging monster. The race that was to be held on the normal section of the river (triple falls down to Right angel falls) was caned and moved to the upper section, last year myself and Graham Milton of Fluxed shirt fame came first in the sponsored category, what happened this year I hear you all cry! Well read on………

(The Etive, Last year.)

I left London village bright and breezy Thursday morning and headed to collect my fellow team mate & mates from the kayaking metropolis of Nottingham, we then headed of into the night bound for Scotland. Gosh what a long way away that place is, after a lovely comfortable journey with no problems or issues we arrived! In the rain wind, cold, typical Scottish weather had a few beers in the local pub then fell asleep in there car park! Standard kayak practice. The next day, Friday the rain was still falling, but on the brighter side of life the river was full, Ish….
3 Or 4 runs down the Etive later, and a bow tie tying instructional video in the can, our race lines were dialed in and we went back to the pub! The race day was nearly here.
Saturday morning dawned surprisingly bright and sunny; we loaded up the car and headed off to the Glen Coe Ski centre, slightly of topic this place is up for sale! You must be able to do so much with that place, Bargain for someone. The river had now started to drop due to the uncharacteristically nice sunny weather and I think that may have given the early competitors a slight advantage, must not grumble though, Me & G set of for our race pretty much at the end of the day followed by Mr. T and JC. Now I don’t think we had the best run down, my small capsize was low point of the race for me! But we both nailed the big last drop at right angel, I finished about one inch behind Graham, we kept it close! Mr.T & JC were just behind us they both had solid runs down; Tom taking the NEW Burn for its first competitive outing was suitably impressed. Race done it was back to the pub! Do you see a pattern here? Then followed probably one of the best nights I’ve ever had in a pub, Good time. Amazingly me and Graham won the sponsored race AGAIN! Yeah….. The nice big trophy is back on the mantel piece & the £200 prize money, was drunk. The shine was taken off our win, only a little when we found out that we had been beaten by two 15 year old, but hats off to them, here are the excuses already! They must have had a good clean race, and they did start at the front end of the day with more water. Ha Ha, well done guys. Good slalom training winning threw there I recon. I forgot to take the camera out of me peli case for the entire trip luckily other people did take pictures and I will try to get some soon. Roll on next year.

First Look...

2009-09-10T10:40:00.000-07:00

Have a look at this! Another new composite boat soon to be released to the market.... Quite a unique day today, paddling at HPP in the sun! And it was great to meet up with my old mate Jon Boy, fresh back from his trip to worlds (Finished top UK paddler! Well done mate) the new boat is undergoing a few minor alterations, keep watching kids big thumbs up all round.

(Give it a quick go!)

(play with the seat position!)

(And there off again!)

(Next stop, find a big wave!)

What have we been doing!

2009-09-07T06:37:00.000-07:00

Well, all of you how read this blog often will notice that we haven’t written a blog for some time, basically we’ve been very very busy. Despite the rather dodgy economic times we are in we have just had one of our best ever summers, lots of customer coming through the door, lots of kit and boats going out , lots of boats and bits that need to be repaired and sorted out, so far are favorite has been replacing the end caps of P&H Revenges!

(Mr. Tickle at work)
Not an easy job unless you are Mr. Tickle and have arms 6ft long. On the boating basically for me it’s been a drought! 164 since I last paddled a river (I’m not including the Thames or HPP in this!!!!) although we have still all been out 5-6 times a week at either Chertsey or at Slaloms around the country. Talking of slaloms this week end gone we were supposed to have our first Division 2 slalom at the drainage ditch at Cardington, However due to possibly the most unhelpful and grumpy people I’ve ever met at a slalom, whom would not let us enter, we had an hour an a half drive there then came straight back! GREAT………

(No not the queue for Hurley! just the practice session at the ditch)

I will never ever ever ever go to Cardington again! EVER. Any how on a happier note we now also have some SUP from Circle One, I’ve been a little wary of these in the past,

(Pete on the SUP, Fun in the sun)

but I can happily say that there amazing so easy and fun to jump on and go for a great little cruse, so long as you don’t fall in you don’t even have to bother to get changed! Proper summer sport. We’ve also been working on some top secret testing for Pyranha, well been working on for some time actually but now after over a year of prototyping, Re: shaping prototyping some more I don’t think it will be long before you see the new Pyranha Play boat.

(Seth throwing down @ Chertsey)

Based very loosely on the Rev it has a completely new hull and rails, totally new deck and is looking very Sweet, and very fast. I’m pretty sure, and I hope Pyranha don’t mind me saying this available in plastic and Full Carbon (boat weight around 7 / 8 Kg haven’t broken one yet!) all things going well it will have it’s first public showing at this weekend Pyranha Fest, held at the Treweryn white water centre north Wales (Look here for more info). Roll on the winter season,
speak soon
L8r

The Assassin has arrived

2009-08-27T05:20:00.000-07:00

After what seams an age the new Nookie Assassin suit is here in store.

Specs:
Fabrics: 3ply Bamboo with Enduro mesh and Gaiaprene®
Neck: Latex gasket with O-ring Gaiaprene® outer
Wrist: Latex gasket with O-ring Gaiaprene® outer
Ankle: Enduro mesh reinforced with hook & loop adjustability
Back Zip: Waterproof BDM® brass zip with protection cover
Waist system: Deep tunnel with spraydeck grab clips and dual drawcord and hook and loop power ups
Relief Zip: Waterproof BDM® brass zip with protection cover
Socks: Fabric dry socks
Made in Cornwall, UK

This suit is quite simply AMAZING, the Enduro mesh reinforced is great and light weight but super tough & very warm, It's got pin stripes for god sake, what more could any man or lady want.

BUY HERE.