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Last updated: Friday, February 1, 2008
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Paddler's Gear
Canoes and kayaks
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The Northern Isles - Orkney & Shetland Sea Kayaking
 By Tom Smith and Chris Jex
Price: £19.99
Pesda Press
Their relative isolation, stunning scenery and Norse history make Orkney and Shetland a very special place. For the sea kayaker, island archipelagos are particularly rewarding… none more so than these.
Illustrated with superb colour photographs and useful maps throughout, this book is a practical guide to help you select and plan trips. It will provide inspiration for future voyages and a souvenir of journeys undertaken.
As well as providing essential information on where to start and finish, distances, times and tidal information, the book does much to stimulate interest in the environment. It is full of facts and anecdotes about local history, geology, scenery, seabirds and sea mammals.
Tel: 01286-685233
http://pesdapress.com
Scottish Canoe Classics
 By Eddie Palmer
Price: £15.99
Pesda Press
Eddie has chosen his favourite 25 inland touring routes and described them in loving detail. The routes are beautifully illustrated with numerous colour photos and specially commissioned maps.
The selected routes are suitable for open canoes, sit-on-tops and touring kayaks. Many of them are multi-day trips that can be tackled as a single voyage or a series of day trips. Great variety is provided, the journeys taking place on inland lochs, sheltered sea lochs and rivers of up to Grade 2.
A wonderful book for planning, dreaming of future voyages, or sharing your experiences with non-paddling friends.
Tel: 01286-685233
http://pesdapress.com
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Sea Kayak
Author: Gordon Brown l Price: £15-99 l Pesda Press
 Summary:
A manual for intermediate and advanced sea kayakers. This book is a modern guide to sea kayaking by one of the leading exponents of the sport who is also a highly respected coach in this field.
Gordon Brown is a BCU Level 5 sea coach based on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. He shares his knowledge with you in his own succinct humourous style and very visual approach.
In this book Gordon covers topics of kayaking history, physiology, boat and paddle dynamics, seamanship and navigation, safety and rescue, weather forecasting, caves, rockhopping and tidal races, expeditions and overnighting, as well as a wealth of tips and resources for the sea paddler.
Over seventy photographs and illustrations help to make this an essential modern manual for the sea kayaker.
This is a visually stunning book printed on 170gsm silk paper filled with top quality photographs. The author is well known as a paddler and author, having written numerous and regular articles for kayak magazines and contributed to the Canoe and Kayak Handbook.
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BCU Coaching Handbook
Special offer to BCU coaches
Following on from the very successful edition of the Canoeing Handbook we introduce the completely new BCU’s Coaching Handbook. As with the Canoeing Handbook this work is a collaboration with and published by Pesda Press.
Edited by Franco Ferrero with contributions by experienced world class recreation and competition coaches this is a first of its kind.
Integrating the ‘how’, the ‘why’ and the ‘what’ of coaching, the BCU Coaching Handbook will aid the paddlesports coach at all levels appreciate the role of the coach and build the coaching process and technical skills to assist and enhance coaching performance in the paddlesport environment.
This is a book that will support existing coaches and those coming into paddlesport coaching for the first time. It will help place the theory of the coaching process in a practical context delivering theory through practice. The BCU Coaching Handbook shares the experiences of its contributing coaches focusing on the ‘how’ skills of coaching (the all important coaching process skills), alongside the ‘what’ to coach skills of paddlesport.
With sections covering coaching delivery, coaching context and technical modeling plus chapters on coaching practice, physiology, psychology, novice, intermediate, advanced and performance coaching as well as coaching forward paddling, white water, racing, slalom, rolling and the use of video; this comprehensive resource is a must for every coach's bookshelf. It will be a major supporting element of the BCU’s United Kingdom Coaching Certificate endorsed coach education programme when it goes live.
Available May 2006 – Cost £19.95 plus £3.50 P&P.
Special Offer/Advanced Order Opportunity for BCU Coaches £16.95 plus £3.50 P&P.
www.bcu.org.uk
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Kayaking & Canoeing for Beginners
 A practical guide to paddling for novices and intermediates
Author: Bill Mathos
Price: £8.99
A big easy to read and well laid out comprehensive introduction to kayaking and canoeing for those at the beginner and intermediate level.
Bill Mattos has spent nearly his entire life in kayaks and canoes and passes his wisdom on with clear, accessible text and how-to sequences.
He provides his expert instruction on the groundwork skills and techniques from getting into the boat to how to roll. Bill also fully explains everything that is needed within paddling regarding clothing and equipment to choosing your boat.
It’s all done with superb photography and illustrations and in an easy to read large size. An excellent book for those looking for an introduction to the world of paddling.
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Top Tips for Boaters
 Authors: Loel Collins and
Franco Ferrero
Price: £4.95p
Publisher: Pesda Press
Distributor: Cordee
ISBN: 0954706145
A collection of practical tips and inspirational ideas gathered by two of the UK’s most experienced expedition paddlers and coaches. The top tips come from Franco and Loel’s combined experiences of white water, sea kayak and open canoe. Experienced gained at home in the UK and abroad in places such as The European Alps, Scandinavia, Canada, the USA, Peru, New Guinea, Pakistan and East Africa.
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Canoe and Kayak Games
Authors: Dave Ruse and
Loel Collins
ISBN 0-9550614-0-7
Price: TBA
Rivers Publishing UK
Oh what fun! Canoe and kayak games should be in the armoury of any coach as they help to develop confidence, skills and awareness in an exciting and fun way. Dave Ruse (author of the original Canoe Games) and Loel Collins have joined together to produce this excellent resource for coaches.
This edition with new games and some old ones (396 in total)! the reader is taken on a journey that is both informative and imaginative. The book provides an array of games that will enable the coach to enhance any session whether for fun or with specific outcomes. It provides sound advice on the safety elements, the type of equipment needed and more importantly individual sections at differing levels and environments. This book should be seen as an essential tool for all coaches.
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Surf Kayaking
The Essential Guide
 By Simon Hammond
Distributed by Cordee Ltd
www.cordee.co.uk
£14.95
A great instructional book on the art of surfing. Well written, designed and illustrated, we’ll leave it to the experts to describe it.
The best instructional book I have ever read. Simon’s words, together with wonderful photographs, clear away the fog which shrouds those complex and seemingly impossible surf manoeuvres. This is a classic sports book which will surely set the trend for those that follow.
Paul Hurrell
Outdoor Education teacher
World Surf Kayak Champion Simon Hammond draws upon his vast experience to produce a valuable and easily understood resource. it uses great analogies to explain fundamental technique and tactic.
Den Newton and
Andy ‘Jacko’ Jackson
It’s great to see someone who has been to the top of the surf kayaks world share their experience in such a down to earth way. Written in plain English (translated from Cornish) this book demystifies the art of surf kayaking, opening up the sport to enable anyone to experience the thrill of the wave… I’m inspired to have a go!
Richard Ward
BCU English Coaching Development Manager
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Kayak Surfing
 Author: Mattos, Bill
ISBN: 0-9547061-0-2
Price: £15-99
Pesda Press
A modern guide to kayak surfing by one of the leading exponents of the sport, aimed both at expert kayakers and those considering taking it up. Stunning photos from pioneering surf sessions all over the world. The book covers basic principles of surfing, surfing etiquette, advanced technique, and the psychology and philosophy of ocean wave-riding.
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Oileáin
 Author: Walsh, David
ISBN: 0-9531956-9-4
Price: £19-99
Pesda Press
Oileáin is a detailed guide to almost every Irish offshore island. The guide is comprehensive, describing over 300 islands, big and small, far out to sea and close in by the shore, inhabited and uninhabited. Oileáin tells it as it is, rock by rock, good and bad, pleasant and otherwise. It concentrates on landings and access generally, then adds information on camping, drinking water, tides, history, climbing, birds, whales, dolphins, legends or anything else of interest.
Pesda Press has a redesigned website where books can be purchased online
www.pesdapress.com
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 English white water -
The BCU guide
The first comprehensive guide to the white water rivers, playspots and artificial white water courses of England. Here you will find descriptions of both well known classics and little known gems. It covers the length and breadth of England and provides something for everyone, whatever the conditions.
Whether you are a white water novice or an out-and-out hair boater, you need this book. Produced in the same format as the acclaimed Scottish White Water guide and illustrated with maps, symbols and photos, this guide is an essential tool for canoeists and kayakers.
The royalties from the sale of this book will go to specific projects that will help gain or protect access to specific sites.
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