ABOUT US

Bartosz and Sam for Love it Live it

The LiLi story

If you are passionate about it and devote your time and energy towards it, you will be rewarded and you will excel at it.

Love it Live it is a concept that can be applied to almost anything.

LiLi is an adventure travel, coaching and kayaking company run by professional coaches who live their lives travelling and kayaking around the world.

For the coaches of LiLi, it is the passion for exploring, adventuring and kayaking and the desire to inspire others to share those experiences and skills.

In 2008, Sam Ward founded Love It Live It with nothing more than a burning desire to teach kayaking on some of the world’s most beautiful rivers.

Kicking things off on the Nile in Uganda, Sam devoted himself to offering adventure-craving travellers world-class kayak coaching and unforgettable holidays. Ten years later Sam has grown the LiLi Team to include a partnership with one of the best freestyle kayakers and coaches in the world, Bartosz Czauderna.

Bartosz brings more than ten years of experience coaching some of the world’s best kayakers along with the ability to be universally loved by everyone who meets him! With Bartosz’s fresh energy and Sam’s solid guidance we’re excited to bring new kayaking adventures in destinations like Chile, Austria, Slovakia and more in 2019 and beyond.

The LiLi coaching team is made up of World Champions, national team members, and, above all, high grade coaches. Every one of our coaches look forward to introducing you to the reasons why they continue to Love it and Live it.

Principles of our Work

Sharing our Passion

Kayaking is our dream and part of this dream includes kayaking in amazing destinations. That is how LiLi emerged and we are proud to follow our mission and share our dreams with other passionate paddlers of all levels.

Personalised Approach

Everybody requires a different approach to achieve personal goals. We create our trips and develop our itineraries so we can really become friends and understand your goals to help select the right path for your own personal growth.

Innovative Coaching

We have been passionate about teaching for many years. We love nothing more than diving deep into the knowledge of methodics led by analytical and systematical schools of thinking. Connecting it with the most recent, innovative and creative ways of teaching we hope to provide a fun and innovative approach to coaching that will bring your kayaking to the next level.
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The LiLi experience

CHRIS TAYLER

Definitely – having all of the logistics sorted out allowed all energies to be focused on the kayaking which is what I was looking for from the trip. I don’t…

HANNAH DRAPER

I had such an amazing time, and has been the single best thing I’ve ever done to improve my paddling.

DEBBIE STITT

The guys all had a fantastic time and you could see how much they improved throughout the day. Rob’s first loop will stick with him for many weeks to come…

DONALD SHEER

You made me feel more like a friend than a customer. That makes for good times on and off the river. Sam’s way to break the moves down to different…

NICOLA UNDERHILL

Completely surpassed my expectations.  I didn’t imagine I would improve as much as I did, and didn’t think I would have as much fun on and off the river.

STEPHANIE MANSELL

Best value for money ever. You organised everything and we didn’t have to worry about a thing… If i came out to Uganda again, I would without hesitation pay for…

TASHA ISAACS

I think the balance was perfect. Clear aims helped me with improving my paddling but at the same time each paddling session was fun…I loved every second of it. I…

NICK SMAILES

Fantastic locations, awesome coaching, great food, good people, big volume boating. What more could you ask for?

SARAH SWALLOW

Cheers for the written and video feedback. Its a really helpful addition to the course. I had a great week and learnt loads

LEANNE SMART

I had the best 2 weeks ever…the coaches were amazing, Uganda was incredible and the group were amazing – I would do it again in a heartbeat

SARA JAMES

I thoroughly enjoyed the session. I felt like I moved forward leaps and bounds in both my understanding of moves and my performance. I was impressed how you were able…

Ruth Hughes

I love kayaking and it doesn’t get any better than this. Would recommend. [Reggae Shark] – you have to leave the Reggae Shark in! [Reggae Shark].

NICOLA UNDERHILL

Sam’s coaching was awesome.  He was really confident with the surroundings of the river, and that confidence rubbed off on us. It was really good to be able to get…

HEIDI COOK

There were so many non paddling highlights! I loved the whole experience of being in Uganda so in no particular order I loved; boda bodas, hariy lemon monkeys, african long…