Single Blade is run by GregS and specialises in Advanced Solo Paddling.

Advanced Solo Paddling blossomed in the US in the 1970s.  Some have talked of a renaissance, or even a revolution.  Here in the UK, the paddling scene barely registered this renaissance / revolution: leading lights had enough on their plate even getting the open canoe taken seriously in a paddle-sport community dominated by white water kayakers and sea kayakers.

Dedicated solo canoes are increasingly common in this land of the solo-paddled tandem, but a generation has grown up more focussed on poling/snubbing, lining/tracking and sailing as diverse means of tripping / journeying in canoes which only really work well with both a bow and stern paddler.  Adapting technique for solo paddling these tandems has been raised into a discipline in it’s own right, and has a complete coaching scheme built around it… but if anything, this has held back engagement with the solo canoe renaissance / revolution!

Single Blade exists to (rather belatedly) promote the solo canoe renaissance / revolution over here, within the UK… and in particular to promote a rather different notion of the “complete paddler”.

Please visit the adjacent Advanced Solo Paddling page for more information!