Urban paddleboarding may not believe the glamour of the sport’s original home of Hawaii but in Birmingham one man is using it as a way of exploring the city centre and its industrial past from a new viewpoint [br]• Going to extremes: Scroll to discover more urban UK adventure activities“There just weren’t any waves in the Midlands,” says Chris Kenyon.
Fortunately for this Brummie surfer, he stumbled across paddleboarding a decade ago. The sport is a curious one: you balance on top of a monster surfboard and spend a large paddle to power along. More curious still is Chris’s area of exploration. It’s not around the islands of Croatia, and nor in paddleboarding’s spiritual home of Hawaii; the Midlander has made a full-time job of paddling the canal system that links modern Birmingham with its industrial past.
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Source: theguardian.com