This is the last year Owen can attend because of his age, so perhaps next year we can nominate someone else! If you fancy a go, please speak to a coach and have a chat with Owen. For the second year running our paddler Owen Edwards attended the GB freestyle kayaking academy camp 2025 at Holme Pierrepont in Nottingham. Owen in his report says: “What a week it has been at the GB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news","category-wwnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5873,"href":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869\/revisions\/5873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
As Del says in here report : “….. this was a week long camp run by GB Freestyle which focused on developing junior (11-17) paddlers in freestyle. The core purpose of the camp was for the paddlers who attended to have a great time, to develop their freestyle and other skills and to then leave and continue to grow both themselves as paddlers and freestyle as a sport.
The overriding goal of the camp is to spread the love of freestyle kayaking as a sport. By nurturing the enthusiasm of these junior paddlers, the hope is that they themselves are then in a position to encourage and inspire others that they know (parents, clubs, school friends etc) to get involved and give it a go!
Paddlers who attended the camp had to be first nominated by their club and then selected by the freestyle committee in order to gain a place. Clubs had been invited to nominated any junior paddlers for the camp and in order to nominate a paddler. It was a tough selection process but ultimately 38 young paddlers were nominated and chosen to attend.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/gscc-online.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Owen-Picture1.jpg\")
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