A very little waterfall somewhere in Surrey;)Still no test results. Maybe tomorrow morning.
Here's what I did (kayak wise) last month...
Tuesday 5th June 2007 @ 19:05pm, Twick to Tedd Lock & back, 50mins, Orange Peel, warm and quite windy coming back and very choppy too!, sunny and bright, temp 11, wind 8 (it was definitely more than that!)...one tennis ball.
Thursday 7th June 2007 @ 21:00pm, Ealing Pool, Lee, Ian, 1hr 30mins, more rolls (first attempt)...'C to C'...loads in fact. I seem to have found the best roll for me:) Ian bought his little red/orange kayak for Lee to borrow.
Sunday 10th June 2007 @ 21:20pm, Twick to Tedd Lock & back with Naif, 1hr 50mins, dark and warm, lots of midges & bats and a massive dead Bream, I did four C to C rolls right out in the middle at the Radnor Gdns end of Eel Pie Island (my first ever rolls in an actual river too)...all of them were successful...the water wasn't too cold and I could even see the paddle...very murky & eerie though under the water! No monsters which was good;) Temp 19, wind 7...One tennis ball.
Tuesday 12th June 2007 @ 17:08pm, Twick to Tedd, 50mins, temp 23, wind 8...1 tennis ball.
Thursday 14th June 2007 @ 21:00pm, Ealing Pool, Lee, Ian, 1hr 30mins, loads of c to c rolls and mucking around etc, tried using floats to roll...Freddie the Frog then three small floats then two all successfully. Definitely sussed out my rolls now. I lost count the amount that I did one after the other. Plus Lee & I were capsizing without our paddles and waiting for the other to throw the paddle over and then rolling...good stuff:) Ian got his new kayak...Jackson 4 in green.
Friday 15th June 2007 @ 18:30pm, Stepping Stones by Box Hill along the River Mole to the car park near Bocketts Farm Leatherhead, Lee, Ian, 2hrs 30mins, I did two rolls which Lee filmed and there are photos too...see my i-photos for this date, warm & sunny, millions of flies and midges, ducks, Kingfishers, three footballs which I didn't keep and an orange inflatable cushion, scratched the bottom of our boats up good! Oh well! It was a nice paddle and quite tiring too.
Tuesday 19th June 2007 @ 18:00pm, Twickenham to Richmond Lock & back, 1hr 20mins paddling, warm, sunny, cloudy, stormy, wind & rain and even thunder, I got the tides completely wrong and paddled against it to start with thinking it had turned already after the high tide and instead got caught at Richmond Lock with a very strong current coming back to Twick...and then it thundered & rained too, which was quite nice really, but my arm was killing me and I didn't find any tennis balls to boot!
Thursday 21st June 2007 @ 21:00pm, Ealing swimming pool with Lee & Ian and loads of others, 1h 30mins, tonnes of rolls and rolls with just a single swimming float and lots of fucking around to boot including Lee & I capsizing next to each other and swapping paddles under water then rolling. And capsizing without a paddle or float and being thrown a paddle for rolling with. Then capsizing out in the middle of the pool with no paddle and swimming upside down still in your kayak back to the pools side and righting yourself using the ledge;), tried Ian's Jackson Fun out and found it quite hard to roll but his new Werner paddle is the dogs...at £260 it should be! I want one now;)
Monday 25th June 2007 @ 18:10pm, Twick to Tedd Lock and back, 55mins paddling, very choppy in Lock and very fast flowing water from all the rain earlier in the day and the days before, sunny and warmish, temp 16, wind 7, three tennis balls.
Wednesday 27th June 2007 @ 20:45 pm, Pool in the Park Woking, 1hr session of rolls (paddle & float) and braces, completely different set of people from Ealing and just as nice a bunch...if not nicer?
Thursday 28th June 2007 @ 22:20pm, A whole bunch of us found that Ealing pool was closed because of the 'PH' levels being to high? Someone piss in it? So I suggested we go for a bit of a paddle up the Thames at Twickenham and Lee, Ian, James & I went and did a 1hr 40min paddle to Teddington Lock weir & back. I was looking forward to rolling in the pool so I did three in the river instead. And yes it was cold and yes it was ten to midnight and yes I am mad;) It was a nice paddle although the weir was very fast and choppy! Lee & James waited by the Three Anglers pub while Ian & I went to the other side and back. Then we drifted nearly all the way back to Twickenham almost with the flow of the river and had a right old laugh what with james's nail in the nuts story (true!) We could've floated all the way to sea if we wanted:) Temp 15, wind 14. No tennis balls! Bollocks!!
Here are a few more links to Lee & I doing rolls etc...Ian is in the background too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5ELJfSbm58
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5ELJfSbm58
Jason
(C) JPT 2007.........2097.69 miles.
6 comments:
ARGggggg... no test results!
Come-ON! Oh, the anticipation is freakin crazy!!! Come-ON!!!!!
All right, I'm cool.... no biggie, right? Right. Yeah right! ;)
I've always had good breathing control, but I'm starting to turn an unsettling shade of blue, holding my breath waiting for your results, Jae. ;-)
C
ps. I forgot to mention... I love that stormtrooper shot, although I think I would find it rather unsettling to see an "armed guard" of troopers outside of a government building here. Not that we aren't treading dangerously close, or anything.
They're coming Ample/Chris...I can feel it in my veins;)
Chris, I was in Andrew Ainsworth's SDS workshop yesterday (checking out his kayaking helmets) and you'll never guess what was sitting on the side as I walked in? Only the original moulds for the Stormtrooper helmet!! I said 'What the hell is that?!' and he told me...I said I know what it is, but what is it doing up here (it's always been hidden away downstairs under lock & key with all the vacuum forming machines when I have been in there before). He didn't say why. I said that is a piece of history sitting right their and he looked at me with this big grin and said 'Apparently yes'. I picked the 31 year old mould up (it was attached to a sheet of plywood) and said it wasn't very heavy. It's made of aluminium and hollow you see. It looks like it should weigh a ton. I was tempted to run out of the building with it under my arm...but he knows where I live;) Plus he knows quite a few of the 501st Legion!
You gotta come over here soon Chris before he has to seize making them and take a look around his workshop. He's in a legal battle right now with Mr Lucas & his drone army as to who actually owns the copyright to the Stormtrooper (etc) designs.
Jae
still no news?!?!!!! ?? !!!
thinking of you everyday, my friend.
I love the picture! If I was in UK we would do kayaking together, J!
You roll great!
I wish your results come back Undetactable or SVR!
Hey, Jason!
Surprise, surprise but Im waiting for your test results too :-)
Since the day I we met you became an endless sourse of inspiration for me.
You will always be my friend, SVR or not!
Yuri
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