A short history of not caring
Steffan Meyric Hughes has an impassioned plea to know our history better, mainly because he didn’t complete this month’s column on time! (December 2015). Know your [...]
Steffan Meyric Hughes
An interview with… Ottilie Robinson-Shaw
Breaking down the doors: Ottilie Robinson-Shaw known to all as… ‘Ottie’. As Europe’s top junior female, Ottilie Robinson-Shaw is leading the charge to define [...]
You call it class, I call it grade… let’s call the whole thing off
Steffan Meyric Hughes on two nations separated by a common language. American modifications to English used to be a staple lament of the English. We used to complain bitterly [...]
The fonics of freestyle
There can’t be a sport on earth that has changed as much, or as quickly, as kayaking. By Steffan Meyric Hughes As recently as the early 90s, there was really no such thing [...]
Iconic paddlers: Dr Mike Jones
It is one of the eerier twists of kayaking history, noted by Blackadar biographer Ron Watters, that the two leading expedition kayakers of the 1970s were both doctors, who [...]
Iconic paddlers: Dr Walt Blackadar
Of all the paddlers in this series, none has a more singular or spectacular story than that of Dr Walt Blackadar, the gun-toting, vodka-drinking country doctor who started [...]
Iconic paddlers: Milo Duffek
After the Second World War, whitewater kayaking started growing exponentially in popularity, a rise that would peak in the 1970s, with the first Olympic Canoe Slalom in 1972, [...]
Iconic paddlers: Johann Klepper
In the same year that Gino Watkins died (1932) kayaking in Greenland, the sport of kayaking was well in the throes of its first great transformation, from finely-built wooden [...]
Iconic paddlers: Gino Watkins
Do you remember your first roll? Or, I should say, your first rolls, because there are a number of firsts in reality. The first roll, the first roll outside the warm clarity [...]
Iconic paddlers: John ‘Rob Roy’ MacGregor
Happy birthday the sport of kayaking. You are 152 years old this year (2017). What, you didn’t know? Well, it’s official. Kayaking, unlike many ‘sports’, can trace [...]
