Simon Pond is organising an exciting trip to the International White Water Centre in Cardiff on the 15th August.
The original one for 8th August is cancelled
CIWW is an artificial WW course. It is driven by pumps. It can release at 4 cumcs, 6 cumcs and 8 cumcs. There are times of water release.
09:30 - 11:15hrs 4 cumcs
11:15 - 12:15hrs 6 cumcs
13:30 - 16:15hrs 8 cumcs
The 4 cumcs is suitable for anyone with little WW experience. The 6 cumcs is a bit more than a grade 2. But if you come down in my group happy to give it a go. But your first swim ends the session!
On a 8 it's a pushy grade 3. I would not allow novice WW paddlers on.
I'm happy to lead groups down. With some coaching. But the rescue side of things is provided by CIWW not me. I of course will help out with any issues.
Cost. They split the day into two sessions. 4 & 6 session and 8 session. It's £10 per session. You'll have to pay for this, on line, prior to session. Use this link, link also has a safety video, they are wanting all to watch.
https://www.ciww.com/park-and-play-2/
For those wanting to do the 4 cumcs session. It starts at 09:30. There is paperwork FAFF at the beginning, so I'd be there for 8:45. To do FAFF and get ready for pumps on at 09:30.S'bury to Cardiff is a tad under 3 hrs.
Anyone swimming in the course. The centre provides couple of people that throws lines at you. Boat and paddle go down to bottom of course. At bottom of course is a huge pool, here we reunite padders with their boats and paddles. In the pool is a conveyor belt that takes you to top of course. So there is admin FAFF at start of day, but then that's it. If the better paddlers wish to come down for the 8 cumcs release, I understand. But if some wish to help me, that would be great. If you're coming to help, no throw lines, but slings come in useful in bottom pool.
If you want to chat about it give me a ring. My son is coming along. So I'll have two boats on my roof rack, I can carry two more. Can get boats from containers prior to. But you'll probably need to sort getting them to Cardiff and back.
