BCAB Coaching Podcast

About BCAB Coaching Podcast

The Paddle UK Coaching Podcast is an opportunity to explore different topics around coaching with the team and a wide range of expert guests from the paddling community, all with a wealth of knowledge to share.

Publisher

paddleuklearning

Category

sports

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 Nov 2019

Latest episode

5 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

134 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   5 Oct 2026

   S8 Ep2 Ducks, a Throw Line, and a Rock with Lucy Downer

   In this episode of the Coaching Podcast your host, Emma Love, chats with Lucy Downer. Lucy’s first experience in a boat was a 6-day charity canoe marathon in 2013, having never paddled before. After 127 miles paddling down the Thames, she was hooked! She began coaching a year later and is now a Sheltered Water Performance Coach (Canoe), a Moderate Water Canoe Leader, and the Head Canoe Coach at Falcon Boat Club in Oxford. Over the years, she has dabbled in sea kayaking, white water kayaking and most recently marathon racing, but canoeing always remains her first love, and the focus of her coaching. Teaching is a big part of Lucy’s life - when not in a boat, she works as a professional musician and woodwind teacher. She enjoys exploring the pedagogical links between canoeing and clarinet-playing and recently completed an MA in Woodwind Teaching in which she studied cross-discipline strategies for performance preparation. At Falcon, Lucy spends most of her time working with paddlers on the Thames and Cherwell, a largely sheltered water environment - although it can get pretty feisty in the winter! She leads a team of 16 volunteer coaches, supporting over a hundred canoeists at all levels from beginner to advanced. She particularly enjoys the challenge of helping experienced paddlers continue to develop their skills, when the club’s sheltered environment no longer presents much difficulty. To download the transcript for this episode click here. Book ref: Rob Gray: The advanced ecological approach to skill development and maintenance (©️2025, Perception Action Consulting & Education LLC)

2. 

   31 Aug 2026

   S8 Ep1 The Complexities of Coaching with Jenna Sanders

   In this episode of the Coaching Podcast your new host, Emma Love, and Jenna Sanders chat about the Performance Coach Pathway, what good coaching is and all its complexities.  Plus, we explore what steps we can take to invest in our coaching practise so that we become really good at what we do. Jenna has been working in paddlesports for about 20 years, starting out as a freelance instructor, working up to centre manager, before deciding to become self-employed. At the end of 2018, she decided to go it alone and start up Flying Gecko, to concentrate more on what she really enjoys - being out on the water with paddlers, leaders and coaches, helping them to achieve their paddling goals, and trying to make sure they have a great time doing so. Jenna is a performance coach in both advanced open water canoe, and open water SUP, as well as an advanced white water canoe coach, a BCU level 3 white water kayak coach, and a SUP coastal leader.  Jenna is a provider of many Paddle UK qualifications and awards in personal performance, leadership, coaching and safety, mainly across the multi-craft, SUP and canoe disciplines.  She is also really proud to be a part of Paddles Up Training's National Trainer team, helping to train, moderate and sign-off providers of the Coach Award, as well as several leadership, safety and instructor awards. Jenna is a member of the Touring Technical Group, and Chair of the Canoe Technical Group, and really loves being able to play a small part to help shape the content and awards that BCAB develops. Whether she’s coaching, running courses, assessing or working with new providers, she works hard to create a friendly and enjoyable learning environment, where experimentation is encouraged and making mistakes is valued and embraced for the learning that it provides. Her aim is to help paddlers, leaders and coaches develop into independent learners with the ability to problem solve, be creative, and to analyse their own performance. She wants everyone to leave her courses feeling more capable and fired up then they started. Jenna's aim with everyone that she works with is to be a small part of their long term enjoyment of the sport.  She is also committed to her own ongoing learning, development and curiosity about paddling and coaching. She has recently completed an MSc in coach development at Leeds Beckett University, and is really enjoying putting all that new learning into practice, in everything that she does. To download the transcript for this episode click here.

3. 

   10 Aug 2026

   S7 Ep13 Georgina Maxwell Handover to Emma Love

   In this final episode of series 7 of the Coaching Podcast, your host, Georgina Maxwell, hands over the microphone to our new host, Emma Love. Based in the East Midlands, UK, Emma Love began paddling at the age of 46. In 2021 she set up her coaching business, Wotbikini Stand Up Paddleboarding, with a simple but powerful aim: to support women in building their skills, knowledge and confidence on the water, while creating a strong sense of community.  Emma’s ongoing fascination with all things coaching has led her to progress as a provider in the Sheltered Water environment and to begin her Performance Coach pathway. Recognised by Paddle UK for her commitment to supporting women on the water, Emma has been a #ShePaddles Ambassador and was shortlisted two years running for the Delivery Partner Awards in the Quality and Engagement categories. Alongside paddling, Emma began writing, with articles first published online by Paddle UK. Over the past three years she has interviewed inspiring women coaches, providers, paddlers and fellow #ShePaddles Ambassadors for SUPMag UK, sharing their individual journeys and experiences from across the sport. And when she’s not on a paddleboard, Emma is more often than not exploring white water kayaking.  And always with a huge splash of laughter! To download the transcript for this episode click here.

Who has been a guest on BCAB Coaching Podcast

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• Chris Evans
• Ray Goodwin
• Gareth Wilson
• Caz Dawson
• Ian Adey

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5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 39 / 100

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46

Social presence

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YouTube

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Engagement

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