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 ]

Well its that time of the year where I head home to catch up with all of my friends and family! Its a great time of year as I don’t really get enough time throughout the year to see everyone! I had to head home a little earlier than expected but this just means more time chilling out in the awesome Hawkes Bay sun, before the craziness of 2012 starts!!! On Thursday I will head out for Australia as part of the coaching staff for the NZ U18 Development Team. We are heading over to race in the Australian National  [ Read More ]

The Kawerau Training camp was held last week and was aimed at developing our younger athletes and also developing some of our coaches. The weather looked like it was going to present some issues but luckily its always sunny in Kawerau… The kids stayed warm and had a great time and learnt a lot from our coaches. Thanks to Ollie for her hard work organizing the camp! Follow this link for a few more Photos of the Kawerau Camp! Unfortunately the wild weather hit the Bay of Plenty pretty hard so there was too much water to hold a race at  [ Read More ]

The past week has been a super busy one for me with the NZ U23 and U18 Training Camp held in at Massey University in Palmerston North. We had a very international coaching staff including Nathalie from Switzerland, Martin from Czech Republic and myself. We also had a couple of presentations from leading sports science providers and psychologists from Massey University. Thanks to everyone that came to the camp as it was a great weekend!! There is a couple more events going on this week with a couple of Junior Development training camps held in Kaweru and Tekapo. The Bill  [ Read More ]