S-MAX Extreme

MONTH: July 2009
ORGANISER: Four Seasons
WHERE: Stockton on Tees, Teesside, England
WHY YOU SHOULD GO: The instructors on Four Seasons courses are ex British Slalom Team paddlers so you’ll be getting training from top UK watermen.
CONTACT: Go to 4seasons.co.uk or call 01642 678000

ORGANISER: Nene Whitewater Centre
WHERE: Northampton, England
WHY YOU SHOULD GO: Pumps control the release of water so that you can shoot the rapids as leisurely or as quickly as you please.
CONTACT: Go to nenewhitewatercentre.co.uk

MONTH: July 2009
ORGANISER: Four Seasons
WHERE: Stockton on Tees, Teesside, England
WHY YOU SHOULD GO: The instructors on Four Seasons courses are ex British Slalom Team paddlers so you’ll be getting training from top UK watermen.
CONTACT: Go to 4seasons.co.uk or call 01642 678000

MONTH: June 2009
ORGANISER: National Water Sports Centre
WHERE: Holme Pierrepont, Nottinghamshire, England
WHY YOU SHOULD GO: Nottinghamshire may not be quite as hardcore as the Welsh or Scottish highlands, but this centre has a large variety of vessels for you to tackle its white water in.
CONTACT: Go to nationalwatersportsevents.co.uk or call 0115 982 4707

MONTH: April 2009
ORGANISER: Splash White Water Rafting
WHERE: Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland
WHY YOU SHOULD GO: There’s never any shortage of river with this rafting company which regularly runs the Tay, the Tummel, the Orchy, the Findhorn, the Braan and the Awe. Awesome indeed.
CONTACT: Go to rafting.co.uk or call 01887 829706

MONTH: March 2009
ORGANISER: Black Mountain Activities
WHERE: Brecon, Powys, Wales
WHY YOU SHOULD GO: The River Wye offers some of Wales’ most testing whitewater. Watch out for one particularly demanding rapid, which is rather ominously called ‘the Hell Hole’.
CONTACT: Go to blackmountain.co.uk or call 01497 847897

MONTH: January 2009
ORGANISER: National White-water Centre Frongoch
WHERE: Bala, Gwynedd, Wales
WHY YOU SHOULD GO: The UK’s first commercial white-water rafting centre, this facility uses a dam to release water into the river, which means it’s up and running even when other rivers are too dry.
CONTACT: Go to ukrafting.co.uk or call 01678 521083