Kate Middleton in Nookie 3/4 Neo Strides

...and doesn't she wear them well! Kate Middleton seen here wearing the awesome new Nookie 3/4 Neo Strides!

Kate Middleton wearing Nookie Makes HELLO Mag

The Scion Sisterhood and Nookie made a HUGE spread in the latest edition of Hello Magazine. Nookie logos are clearly visable on the frontpage and throughout the centre spread as the girls from the Scion Sisterhood keep raising money for the charities! Kate Middleton can be seen wearing the (now famous) 3/4 Strides, with some of the other sisters also wearing the new Nookie Thermalcore Pants!

Team Rider James Weir and I just spent a gruelling 3 days near James' Swiss mountain hideaway, charging around testing and photographing all the things the English weather had so far conspired to prevent us from doing. Some of the material is now uploading to other parts of the Nookie site, so I won't replicate it too much, but here are some shots to be going on with. We were joined by James' dog Ekmek, who is an ex-World Champion in his own right (2003, Husky Sled Racing) and the most well-behaved dog in the world.

James is seen here testing some little understood features of our awesome Rivermonster.

Pics are funny, video is even funnier - I'll Youtube it and stick it up here too...

Kate Middleton wearing Nookie hits headlines in all National Press

The Scion Sisterhood made headlines this week when they realeased who their latest member was. Kate Middleton has joined the girls and is seen here wearing a pair of the famous Nookie 3/4 Strides. The Nookie logo on all the paddles was about as prominant as we could have hoped. Keep an eye on the Sisterhood, and the national press as there will be much more in the future.

Sjoa fest:How was it? Emotional!

The Sweet Rumble Extreme race was cancelled due to super high water levels.Ugg elected to take his plastic Bullet rather than the composite. On arrival the locals said it was a small boat. The Amot section (class 5) of the Sjoa was very high. During the festival only 6 paddlers ran it: Ugg said it was an emotional humbling experience and in Amot gorge he disappeared deep underwater to emerge spinning in a seam with only 4 inches of bow showing above the water. Rob Coffey got caught in a shed size boil and had many roll attempts - "reminded me of Zambezi in flood". Local Pete Vickers styled it with a cool reverse screw on a bus size pillow but said only ran it once before at that level.

The new latex free Zone shell was put through four days of ww testing from pluggin waterfalls to super long work outs in big rapids to deep meltdowns. All awesome results so far. Next Bill is takin one for another shakedown.

Ugg has a new kayak/V shock Test.
Teamrider Vickers tests out the Nookie V Shock deck last week on Moneydrop in Norway. The landing sends the boater deep under water applying heavy pressure on the deck. On this test the deck held the pressure and did not implode. Previous boaters that day had run the drop with another brand of deck and they all experienced deck implosions!

Ugg has a new kayak which is a Lettmann production "Bullet" made in composite kevlar/carbon. The boat has a semi flat hull and is narrow compared with the latest ww river kayaks and so more unstable but much more responsive. The superlightweight material and stiff hull makes it very fast and its acceleration is a huge grin factor. The challenge is to have the skill to keep up with its speed and avoid the rocks! Ugg is off to Norway to test it out at the Sweet Rumble Extreme Race. Latest reports are of huge water levels which should be interesting! he will also test out the next generation of Nookie dry top which has many unique features...more on that later.