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Johnny Brown Obituary

Johnny Brown died peacefully in Westerlands Carehome  on Wednesday 9th July at the age of 78. 

It has been a very hard 5 years for Johnny and his family as the active and able man he used to be was affected by Alzheimers.  He is at peace now and we have many happy memories of Johnny as a husband to Catherine, dad to Craig, Gareth, Emily and Michael as well as a teacher, sportsman and canoeing coach.

Johnny loved all sport and was lucky as a teacher to get the opportunity to learn to canoe at Wallace High school in 1977.   He quickly got involved in coaching paddlers himself and his first slalom competition was Fairnilee in 1980 with a minibus of paddlers.  He was hooked.  He led his first trip to France in a minibus with 16 paddlers in 1981 which became an annual event for Scottish paddlers which has continued to this day.  He coached by day and played softball and table tennis at night with paddlers and parents.  He would be very proud that his son Michael has taken over the running of the summer trips and his grand daughter Taz was also on the trip this summer.  Johnny loved competing himself and continued to paddle well into his 60s.  He ran CR Cats and gave so much time to any youngsters who wanted to do Canoe Slalom across Scotland.  In 2012, he had the honour of running with the Olympic Torch in his home town of Stirling. 

We remember him particularly at this time of year when he would have been in his element in France with a group of kids in the sunshine standing on a river bank during the day , sunbathing when not coaching and socialising, dancing and playing his guitar in the evening.  

His funeral will be on Thursday 7th August at 11 a.m. at Logie Kirk church, Blairlogie.

Its nearly time for the 2025 Llandysul Paddlers River Festival!

Llandysul Paddlers River Festival (7th – 10th August)

Are you up for fun and thrills? Run by the ever welcoming and friendly Llandysul Paddlers the River Festival offers Coasteering, River Swims, slalom training, intro to white water, rock climbing, river tubing, bush craft, sup, cliff jumping, tickets cost a maximum of £100 (discounts apply). It’s not just for kids either, parents can join in too, if you dare!

If that doesn’t wear you out you can follow it up with the Division 2/3/4 race.

Full details can be found on the Llandysul paddlers website

*This event earns a 5* rating from the Berriman family, so stop being morngy, stop faffin about, get tha sen signed up, it might be mafting or it could be nithering, wang tha sen off a cliff, make a wazzock of yourself, you’ll probably go arse over tit and be jiggered by the end but by eck you’ll have a gret time and it’s for next to nowt. You’ll be reet chuffed you did!

Raising Happy Champs

Train the Team Behind the Team! Support your Athletes by Empowering their Parents!

Successful sport outcomes happen when the coach-athlete-parent triangle is strong but while coaches are trained and athletes are supported parents are often left out of the game plan.

Through our experiences as a sporting family — the highs, the exhaustion, the uncertainty — I’ve come to deeply understand how important the parent role is in youth sport. So, as part of my PhD in sport psychology, I spent seven years designing the Super-P Workshop, a science-backed education program for sport parents. It’s the only parent education program to be scientifically tested and shown to reduce anxiety, improve competition outcomes, and strengthen communication between coach, parent and athlete.

Now, through Raising Happy Champs, a small but passionate team (just myself and one brilliant colleague!), we’re working to bring this workshop to clubs and organisations across all sports and all levels. It’s a one-off, 2-hour live workshop — and the feedback has been fantastic. One coach even told me, “The whole atmosphere of the club has changed.”

A short PDF is available with more details about the  SUPER-P Club info Slalom and what we offer through Raising Happy Champs. If this is of interest oto your slalom club please get in touch.

Dr. Jen Harris
Psychologist | Founder, Raising Happy Champs www.raisinghappychamps.com

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Check out John Gregory’s ICF slalom podcasts

There are 95 episodes which can also be found on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube. Despite the name this is not an ICF product. John came up with the ICFslalom hashtag early in the 2015 season. The podcast started in 2019. This last year there were 58 guests across the 27 episodes. Series 4 were daily episodes through the Olympics and series 5 started this autumn. Lots of British guests and stories.

The Slalom Start Box

As announced in October, Paddle UK is excited to introduce the Slalom Start Box, a comprehensive toolkit designed to support paddler recruitment within clubs to increase the number of children and young people engaged in canoe slalom across the UK. Slalom Start builds on the incredible work that all clubs and volunteers do to introduce children and young people to the amazing sport of canoe slalom. It is intended to help share this knowledge and empower others to engage more people in canoe slalom. The digital toolkit is now available and supporting webinars are taking place during the winter, you can sign up here. If you have any queries please contact slalom start

Slalom Progress Awards

Last year Canoe Wales and the England Slalom Talent Programme, in conjunction with the England Slalom Committee, presented the new Slalom Progress Awards. We have updated the Awards for this year.

New C2 pairings

Apply direct to the C2 Bib Officer – you do not need to go through reinstatement. Ranked C2 pairs may enter races at any level.