Aaron Osborne

Yip that wraps up another NZ Selection races and the New Zealand Open. The weekend was a pretty good one with a quite a few internationals coming over to race which is always great to see!! Congratulations to Mike Kurt who took the win today in front of Fabian Dorfler and John Hastings coming home in 3rd. I personally had a crap weekend of racing where I couldn’t get into rhythm of racing and made lots of really basic mistakes which cost me large amounts of time. I still made the final and had a shocker final run with a  [ Read More ]

Following my Tour with the Junior Team I came straight home to coach at another camp held in Kawerau. There was a fantastic turn out with lots of young paddlers learning heaps. I was also stoked to see many of our U23 paddlers helping out which is great to see! The camp was the perfect lead into last weekends race which was the first weekend of the selection for our National teams. The top 3 juniors/u23/seniors will be selected to represent NZ at various World Championships etc. I also raced and went ok on day one and then was a  [ Read More ]

I WILL POST ALL MY PHOTOS OF EVERYONE ON MY FACEBOOK PAGE. CLICK HERE For the past few weeks I have been in traveling throughout Tasmania with the NZ Junior Development Team. This was my 5th tour as a coach of the team and about 10th tour to Australia for the Australian Nationals. We left on the 29th of December to embark on a 16 day tour to compete in Australian Open Nationals and the Australian Secondary Schools Championships. We arrived in Launcesten and drove a few hours inland to our accommodation at the Lake Barrington Rowing Centre. It is an awesome  [ Read More ]