Team Paddle International:

Dave is the founder, owner and lead coache/guide for Paddle International. Dave and a team of associates are highly experienced and qualified paddlesport professionals, who have worked in the industry for nearly 20 years.

They are multi-disciplined paddlers and coaches - working and playing in a whole host of different craft: open canoes, white water kayaks, packrafts, SUPs and sea kayaks.

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The team are also experienced and practiced expeditioners, passionate about, and driven by adventure. They have undertaken expeditions and worked as guides in the far corners of the world, from the Nepalese Himalaya, to the European Alps, Scandanavia, North and South America, and extensively throughout the UK.

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Paddling adventures is something we all have a deep passion for, because of the huge variety of inspiring and challenging environments you can explore and experience from a boat.  We love everything from: open water journeys in awe inspiring scenery, to big volume white water rivers in wilderness corners of the world, to exposed coastlines with fast tides and big swells - and everything in between.

We are deeply passionate about wilderness adventures, and arming people with the personal paddling and expedition skills they need to go become a confident expedition paddler. 

This goes hand in hand with our passion for paddlesport coaching and edcuation - inspiring the next generation of leaders, paddlers, coaches and guides.

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Dave Janes

BCAB Advanced Leader and Coach provider in

Sea Kayak, Open Canoe & White Water

Paddle UK National Trainer ​

Paddle UK Endorsed Guide

Dave grew up in the undisputed centre of the white water universe - Llangollen, North Wales, and began paddling boats around a similar time he learned to walk.  After competing in kayak slalom in his school years, Dave left school to journey around the world, white water paddling and guiding - with stints in Nepal, Zambia, India, Chile, Patagonia and Norway - as well as racking up an impressive list of rivers and adventures.

Dave honed his guiding and leadership skills on hundreds of multi-day expeditions in a variety of environments. On settling back in the UK and North Wales, his skills and passion for white water diversified into the disciplines of sea kayaking and open canoeing (with guiding stints in the Mediterranean, Adriatic and the significant parts of the coast of Norway.)  He also developed his skills as a coach and educator to an advanced level, across these disciplines - working at both National Outdoor Training centres and a wide range of organisations.​​

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