On the 26th of may the club is planning on moving the general Saturday session to Ellesmere. This will give paddlers the chance to improve their open water skills and try a variaty of boats. We need to know rough numbers so we can plan which boats and how many to take. please get in touch and let us know if your up for it!
I have been playing about with setting up a new blog on the website , take a look here http://www.shropshirepaddlesport.org/newblog/ Let me know what you think 
on Wednesday 23rd May there will be an introduction to slalom evening for beginners - for anyone who thinks they may like to try this exciting sport but isn't quite sure, 6pm at the club.
Thanks,
Anita
Slalom training on a Wednesday evening will return on Wednesday April 4th.
Training will start at 6.30pm so you need to be changed, warmed up and ready to go for 6.30. If you can arrive early to help set up the gates thats even better.
Please bring a bottle of water / squash to have either before/during/after training, slalom is thirsty work!
If you need to borrow a boat there are quite a few smallish slalom boats or plastic boats.
Don't worry if you've never done slalom before, as long as you can padddle straight, know your sweep strokes and are keen thats all thats needed.
The session will finish around 8pm depending on light.
Any questions please let me know.
Thanks,
Anita
All please can you get your membership forms back to me ASAP, they are available on the website http://www.shropshirepaddlesport.org/website/membership.php . I will be at the club Sat morning, you can also E-mail them or post them to me
Thanks
Giles
After the cold snap a few weeks ago Saturday sessions are back up and running now the canal has thawed. The format for Saturday mornings is as follows
9.00 Shed opens
9.15 Breifing, with BA fitted. – Paddles & boats after briefing
9.30 Waterside - Hit the water!
11.00 Time Trial
New members are welcome to come along and have a go, one of our coaches will be more than happy to show you the ropes!
Shropshire Paddlesport has a group on facebook! http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/4733648691/ feel free to join!
The 2nd Set of pool sessions @ oswestry pool is due to start next week (11th Feb - for 5 weeks), There are still a couple of places left. Please email gfrankling@gmail.com or contact Dave M if you are interested.
The morning session @ the club has been canceled due to no water being available (It's all ice).
Well done to the 2011 Slalom Interclubs team on another successful performance on the artificial slalom site at Cardington in Bedfordshire. On a somewhat changeable weekend weather wise everyone put in a great effort to give Shropshire's highest placing in this competition yet.
The team consisted of: Marcus Whittle, Conner Lambert, Phil Bevan, Florance Whittle, Caroline Bevan, Anita Evans, Tom Rosser, Will Bevan, Joseph Whittle, Matthew Whittle, Tim Bevan and Cameron Lambert.
This year Shropshire Paddlesport finished 16th out of 22 teams who had entered from accross the country. We also managed to pick up the Tom Wells Shield for the best team whithout a full team. We were most delighted by this and it will soon be on display at the club.
Joe and Matthew Whittle had another go at the gate judge exam this year and both passed so congratulations to them both.
Thankyou to our valuable supporters: Joe, Lucy, Jonathan and Poppy.
A few photos from the weekend, courtesy of Marcus's camera, I think Florance and Marcus taking most of the photos as I remember...........
