Amazing People - Nick Cunliffe

Nick Cunliffe is an active and experienced Level 5 Coach (inland kayak and sea kayak) and WCA Contracted Course Provider. In the past he has run a succesful adventure sports business in Llanberis where he organised the coaching programme and ensures that all Coach Education courses meet the highest coaching standards. Nick currently provides his services as a stand alone operator as well as producing the successful Kayak Essentials DVD.

Nick has been active across a number of watersports disciplines including sailing, windsurfing, river kayaking, coasteering and sea kayaking. Nick has occasionaly been known to enjoy mountain activities too.

As a long standing practitioner within coaching and instruction Nick has worked at two national centres in Wales, Plas Menai and Plas y Brenin. He continues to mentor and train aspirant paddlesports coaches at all levels. Learners that come into contact with Nick are often impressed with his empathy and ability to give feedback in a way that is understood by the performer.

As for global travels, Nick has enjoyed adventures with a boat in Europe, Alaska, Norway and Mexico

Nick features in Justine Curgenven's excellent sea kayaking DVD series 'This is the Sea 2 and 3'

Monday Morning Wave

Photo: David Sparkes

There are people that surf but that does not make them a surfer... Surfers have ancient souls, we feel the rythem of the ocean, even in our sleep, or when we make love, or in the middle of a business meeting... we feel the rythem of the ocean deep in our souls...

- Bear Woznick -

Dave Weare slips into something more comfortable than the seat you're sitting in right now. Punta Mexicana.

Amazing People - This Is The Sea 3

The reason Justine Curgenven's latest DVD falls into this category is due to the fact that a number of people that feature in it are also mentioned here within my blog, and I think it its important to applaud the efforts of others especially your friends There is also the clear and obvious reason that Justine has again achieved a remarkable balance in representing a number of perspectives on our sport through two hours of visual stimulation in the form of action, wildlifes and seakayaking expeditions covering Antarctica, the Faroe Islands, New Zealand, Wales & Scotland. Also included is Greenland rolling with Cheri Perry and Freya Hoffmeister, the legendary Paul Caffyn and fantastic tidal race footage of the Falls of Lora.

All three volumes of This Is The Sea should become, deservedly so, a superb legacy for future generations to learn about what has been accomplished so far in sea kayaking terms and what may yet be still possible. It will inform anyone who watches the series, or even just this one, of the passionb and enthusaism particpants have of the sea, whatever the dimension.

Furthermore, Justine will be donating a percentage of sales from this DVD to the Andrew McAuley Support Fund , partly because it contains the story of Andrew's recent 800km journey down the Antarctic peninsula, which he filmed. For every copy Justine sells she will give US$1.50 to Andrew's family.

This Is The Sea 3 will be premiered on 10th March at Canoecopia in Wisconsin