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Jun
03
2008
 
Film fest, bagot style. Thursday 12th June 10 o clockPosted by: R_andy in Events, VideoIn association with Blame Dave productions, i’ve made a few movies based around a years paddling with a good bunch of waterholics. The Premiere will be 10 o clock Thursday 12th June, courtesy of 51 Bagot Street crew… I.e. the night before we head off to the alps. Please feel free to bring alcoholic beverages As the minibus and associated vans/cars will be leaving ridiculously early on the friday morning, it seems like a very good reason to stay up late and have a few bevvvies to start off the alps trip with a little watery inspiration (and to aid sleeping on said torturous journey south). Also to be decided is who’s team is who’s in the european sweepstreak. Entry into france is automatic qualification!!! 16 teams will be drawn out of the hat… you need to find yourself a drinking buddy (or you’ll be allocated one). There will be a taster preview video appearing early next week, keep your eyes peeled. By Andy R Easter comes around again, and with it our annual crusade in search of scottish waters…. for me, this year was a little different from the normal however Easter Scotland 45 people and a cubic sh*tload of snow to go with it After discussing how Mary was going to travel from Devon to meet us in Roybridge on the Thursday, the options included; train, plane, bus, driving and cycling. After we’d established that cycling up to Scotland was ridiculous, train and bus tickets were booked and the matter was sorted….. A short time after this conversation, involving short term memory loss, it was decided that i was going to set off early on sunday morning and cycle to scotland, to meet the minibus at the river get in on thursday morning. Four days, 323.5 miles and 24 1/2 hours in the saddle later, i arrived at the bottom of glen etive, where a warm bed in Stu’s bunkhouse (the “Smiddy”) awaited me. Thursday morning involved serious bum-ache and a further cycle up the glen in search of signal, to find the others were getting on the river a further east in Glen Orchy. I abandonned, and braved the winds a further thirty miles to wait in Morrison’s for them to show up. (serious bumache by now…) The Orchy from what i gather, was an iconic run featuring swimmage from messers Si and Will, amongst others, in true trip’s first river style. Sad to have missed helping pick up the pieces…. Friday involved the Arkaig and the Spean in miserable cold conditions. After difficulty scouting the only drop of worth on the Arkaig, team safety Lloyd myself and Andy H set our selves up to prepare for the carnage that was about to unfold. Barring the safety team and perhaps 3 or 4 others, of a group of 25, everyone ran the drop on their head, resulting in utter carnage with boats, paddles, bodies, swimming, rolling all over the shot. A picture ingrained in the back of my retinas for a while yet i think. A special shout to Andy Squirrel, who’s whole group ran the full length of the drop following on their bums, being overtaken by all their equipment! Utter Carnage. The Spean proved less eventful, a couple of swims, but all survived (freezing) to the get out, while Team-Shoulder headed on down the gorge. A fair amount of rolling (most notable was Adam’s capsize on the eddy-line above headbanger, in which he ran completely on his head, only managing to correct on 10th attempt in the pool below - lucky boy) and Swims from Penny, Rob and Adam (cough!), resulting in reoccuring shoulder dislocations, a sad end to nice run, and more bother for future medical implications. The Ade-machine ran (litterally) the shuttle for us and we were back at the hut for tea (as ever, cheers Ade). Spean gorge an excelent run, tight and technical. Saturday - cough, The etive. utter carnage on triple-two, lots of fishing from the Nicholl’s yahoo squirrel combination, as per the norm, and Loonsey (among others from other clubs) doing an excelent washing machine impression in Letterbox (more Nicholl’s yahoo squirrel combination fishing), before heading to hospital. Politics forced a walk out, but crack team chris, myself and dale met Squirrel and Andy H at the bottom to shoot right angle. Sunday - SNOW and lots of it, on the way to the Findhorn. Ever seen a brown river????? This was brown from snow….. and rather chilly. Excelently run, groups and leadership sorted, and a very nice river. A Captain swim amongst a few others (Si sent to stand in his corner), and extremely cold conditions to arrive for lunch at the church. A few hardy souls further braved the gorge and made a very good job of it in tricky medium levels, but most were content warming up in the front of the van - yes, that would be eleven in the front of the van (dave left brown residue on the gear stick he was enjoying it so much) Monday - again, the etive. Everyone on the same river at once this time, and everyone progressing and taking less swims and less rolls in the process. The Duo worked well down the whole river, but paddling efficiency is much reduced when you are preparing to hold your deck on down drops, instead of actually putting strokes in. Mixed with going deeper under water than ever in your life, and gaining access to this depth by way of a 7m waterfall is an experience. Having not personally seen it, a highlight must have been Will swimming embarassingly on the dog leg above right angle…… and was it on camera????? Monday afternoon, and the minibus, van and all related cars leave for liverpool, leaving Myself, Mary, Loonsey and Andy H in glen etive to carry on the holiday with stu and other friends in the “smiddy”. (insert chinese poker shots here - drinking marmite, cheese, curry power, sunflower oil, and sweet chilli sauce supirsingly good fun!) Wednesday, my 21st birthday, and the guys had gone to Argos to buy inflatable swimming pools. A drive up the road to Right Angle falls in borrowed dry cags to plunge down the waterfall in said inflatables, in pairs. Absoultely hilarious fun, theres a whoooosh and a huge thrill running it in a kayak, and a larger crazy head moment running it in a duo, but drop off it in an inflatable mini-copper clutching a can of beer out the window, is jsut something else. Unfortunately this also resulted in Loonsey’s second injury of the week, as Mary headbutted her, and broke her hand. the holiday continued. As for getting home - Loons and Andy set out to meet Warwick Uni CC, Mary and three others left for Bristol/Bath in Nick’s car, leaving me and stu to hitch home via trucker and van BMP van driver. Free trip home, and quite a funny experience, getting back to liverpool at 6:30, before the other guys arrived in Bath. a crazy end. Top notch trip, Another successful scottish Easter, thankyou all concerned By Andy R We need to keep track of the heros amongst us! League table coming sooon….. LUCC’s Iron Balls Award For Heroic Paddling Who can claim the top spot, who will reign supreme?
By Andy R Friday night saw 13 handsome young specimens loading 15 boats onto trailors and cars to begin the trek east, to god’s own county. More pub and drunken activity, with special mention going out to Penny who didn’t quite grasp the suck and blow bit of the game and thought spitting over sara was a better idea! multiple times…. Morning came and bill paying time…… “5 cars, 14 people and 1 tent.” “err, you know it’s illegal to sleep in cars?” “better make that 2 tents.” “what about the other 10″ “they were 4man, and it’s a possibility we lost some in the pub” “you know i came to your camping area this morning, don’t you….?” ” F**k ” On our way back to the ‘Pool, we called in at the River Kent, again a scrape, but worth the extra miles. The highlight being the mass surf and the showboating from Erica, deciding she really was too good for paddles and showing off some stern-squirts paddle-less. awesome! There’s some footage which will turn into a video sometime soon, recording the events of the weekend. Cheers to all who made it so Andy Words: Andy R Pictures: Penny This weekend saw a Saturday trip to the dee consisting of myself, kim, martin and aussie dave. Levels were a bit lowish, but definately made the most out of the day, playboating and ran the river from Serpent’s all the way down to Town, and then no need for shuttle, a nice paddle up the canal to finish! Done more times than i have fingers and toes, but the Dee is still a favourite.
By various A really enjoyable tournament down at the docks, with teams from all over the country and abroad, and a good atmosphere. Lucc started off with 4 players, which made games really tough, but nevertheless, managed to put up some good resistance, with Andy rushing around like a demon. Jo (Manchester) joined for the last 3 games - certainly feels better playing with a full team, thanks Jo! Eventual outcome lucc came 8/10 in their minileague, well done guys. My name is most certainly down for next year, this tournament was the most lighthearted serious one i’ve ever seen, played in really good spirit (for the most part) and even hosted a rather embarassing swim from a certain person……! Cheers to Alison for all the solo organising and for the trip to the library, Claire for driving, and the lending of 4p for cake and Rob for providing humour throughout. Anyone wanting some extra polo practice over the summer and next term, check out FOA website for details of training sessions - several folk are planning to head there so watch forum and email. Words Andy R, Helen H Pictures Caveman Si A big up, to the travellers who made it down to st davids this weekend. And a bigger up, to those travellers who didn’t quite manage to make it into their boats over the weekend I think most had a good time, i certainly did, be it the force five winds that struck the campsite (have excelent video evidence of this!), the beach cafe’s hot chocolate, the bits n pieces of cool surf we had or the mass BBQ. Dinny n Will even managed to survive their journey to ireland and back! Nice weekend Cheeeeeeerrs Andy R Yay, lovely weekend, just over 30 folk in all, people did a bunch of stuff, there were softcore and hardcore sea trips on Saturday, Crab fishing and teashop flitting on Sunday, and some sunny surf on Monday. See Will’s report on Bishops and Clerks sea trip and Si’s photos Helen H
Apr
25
2007
BUSA polo- its the “hole” taking part that counts…Posted by: R_andy in BUSA, Polo, Trip ReportsWe went, we saw some balls, we got some balls, then we threw some balls, scored with our balls and saw also that some teams had more sets of balls than we did. We were at BUSA polo……
The first group game saw us get the biggest anhililation we’ve ever had, giving Nottingham good games in our previous meetings, they kept the ball the whole game and preceded to put it in our net lots of times. Our second game we remembered what we were supposed to be doing, and a fine display from the whole team and some of our best movement of the tournament, saw us convincingly beat the Brums to put us threw to the next round of the competition. In the Ladies group stages, we did rather better in winning 2 out of the 3 games, only Birmingham humbling us, and loads of dubious songs from the sidelines later, we emerged second in the group! Next came Cardiff and our bid for the top 8! A valiant display later, and being one of only 2 teams to score against them in the whole tournament, shook them up at half time, trailingj ust 2-1. but then their substitutes and fiberglass showed and they dominated the second half. Our Ladies, then playing Durham, winners of their group and eventually third placed, put up a bloody good fight, star performances from Charlotte and Cath, steering the vastly inexperienced team, to a good battle of plastic versus gold-encrusted-diamond-whittled-carbon-kevlar-alloyed-speedboats. The money and experience told, and Durham prevailed….. It then gets a bit hazy, due to the vast amounts of alcohol consumption, and large platefuls of goodness in my stomach, but i vaguely remember sitting on top of our mini-bus singing - i’d rather have a shower than a lloyd! and then regaining consciousness in drips and drabs throughout the night, finding myself up a tree, and then losing consciousness again as i hit the ground and my waiting beer-bottle! Various phonecalls and bit of a sleep later, we found ourselves once again on the polo pitch, or rather most of the team did, as i was helping out by reffing….!! In a final blow to our bid for any respectable place in the table, we faced sheffield to challenge for nineth spot, and after missing the first half, due to said refereeing duties, we continued to take them apart, yet couldn’t seem to get those balls where we wanted them! Next were ULU. Another really close game, inwhich we dominated, but yet again, those balls were not co-operating. Another golden goal loss in extra time. Liverpool Open team finished up in 15th after beating Swansea 1-0 relatively easily, another golden wondergoal from nick finished off a well won match to a disappointing final position in the table. A year later and we’ll be back…… Our ladies had a better second day, beating the likes of manchester, and loughborough convincingly, before finally meeting Bath, and due to exhaustion were at last gotten the better of, to finish a hugely respectable 10th place. The old gits, marred by injury with exploding teeth and other very dubious excuses for being injured, did well to actually turn up with raised chins to look at death and defeat in the eye! and after appealing to the crowd for random volunteers, managed to scrounge a team of relics together. Needless to say, they got hammered by Britain’s best wheelchair folk, but managed to stay off the foot of the table by ensuring Bath were disqualified. Really good to watch though guys, and boy did you put up a fight… A fantastic weekend in all i think, everything went smoothly, beer definately flowed like the canoeing weekends we’re used to, and even though our “squad” consisted of a broken finger, 2 dislocated shoulders and a wookie, we still managed to field three strong teams. We did play some good-looking polo in places and next year (same as this year) will be a completely different story! Thankyou to everyone who made it happen, jimbob for food, vanny and dom for driving and anyone else who had a part in making fun. until next year….. By Andy RÂ Sorry for the late notice on this guys, my digestive system’s had a rollercoaster ride the last couple of days! (Am just about able to eat soup and keep it down now thank god- i’m starvin! although not yet managed solids) Usual stuff applies to this sunday, 7;45 meet at the sheds, tournament will go on until we’re too cold to carry on, or until there are no more teams good enough to play us (approx 3:30 ish). Bring warm stuffs in the way of drinks and clothes, you shall need them if last tournament is anything to go by. See you in the pool on thursday, we will have a polo training session then, and you will look like a duck on sunday if you aren’t there….
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