Jackson Kayaks Launches its Pure River Runner- the ZEN: Promo Video

by nicktroutman | Jan 30, 2012 | Featured Post, jacksonkayak.com, JK Team Posts, River Running, Team JK, Video, Whitewater, Zen

The much anticipated ZEN is finally here, Jackson Kayak’s first ‘pure’ river running kayak. With some more hull speed, and excellent carving abilities the Zen with make catching eddying and making your moves much easier. The reduced volume in the...

My New RockStar M

by nicktroutman | Jan 13, 2012 | Rockstar, Whitewater

So 2012 bring a new year with new opportunity. To symbolize this I though I would build a new boat. Last year I had a Yellow boat with Red tips, which I loved. So I thought I would stay with those colors but try a new experiment. This time I wanted to go in and...

Rock Star in Action, Big waves, Big tricks, Big Fun!

by nicktroutman | May 26, 2011 | Featured Post, jacksonkayak.com, JK Team Posts, Playboating, Rockstar, Team JK, Video, Whitewater

Dane, Joel, and I had a blast surfing some of Quebec’s largest waves these past two weeks while competing at the Whitewater Grand Prix. It was a great to get on some of these huge waves to truly see the new Rock Star’s potential for air time. There is no...

Whitewater Grand Prix 2011 Wrap-up: Video

by nicktroutman | May 24, 2011 | Featured Post, jacksonkayak.com, JK Team Posts, Rockstar, Trip Reports, Trips, Video, Whitewater

The Whitewater Grand Prix was an experiment to say the least. Pat Camblin had a vision of an event that our sport hasn’t seen yet. A competition combining 6 different events, both race and freestyle, over 14 days, chasing the best whitewater in Quebec. The idea...

Whitewater Grand Prix: Freestyle

by nicktroutman | May 14, 2011 | Featured Post, Playboating, Rockstar, Team JK, Trip Reports, Video, Whitewater

Well we had our freestyle event on a new set of waves here in quebec, called ‘Pillars.’ It is a sweet set of two waves just under a train bridge. This made is easy for spectators to come and watch the show. It was impressive to see the air being thrown and...

Whitewater Grand Prix: Time Trial: Petit Bostonnais

by nicktroutman | May 11, 2011 | Creeking, Featured Post, jacksonkayak.com, JK Team Posts, River Running, Team JK, Whitewater

Yesterday I was able to be a part of probably one of, if not the gnarliest creek race EVER! The Race was held on the Petit Bostonnais, which is an amazing creek, and has had two previous races in 2008/09. Though this year there was record high water. This changed the...

Whitewater Grand Prix: Boater-cross: Rouge

by nicktroutman | May 9, 2011 | Creeking, Events, Featured Post, JK Team Posts, River Running, Video, Whitewater

The second event of the Grand Prix was the Boater-cross, though to spice it up some more they added a HUGE volume rapid. The rapid consisted of huge waves and holes where the line was pretty much straight down the middle, if you were lucky. The main crux move was the...

Whitewater Grand Prix: Ruins

by nicktroutman | May 6, 2011 | JK Team Posts, Playboating, Rockstar, Team JK, Whitewater

After the big trick contest we started our trip north. Though we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to surf the epic wave in Ottawa called ‘Ruins.’ It was a tricky wave to catch, and if you missed a tight eddy below to bridge pylon it was a 10 minute...

Whitewater Grand Prix: Big Trick: Gladiator

by nicktroutman | May 6, 2011 | Featured Post, jacksonkayak.com, JK Team Posts, Playboating, Rockstar, Trip Reports, Video, Whitewater

The Whitewater Grand Prix is off and running with the opening party in Ottawa on Sunday. It was an awesome party getting to see a ton of faces from the whitewater comunity all in one place. The party went all night with an awesome DJ, premier of Rush Sturges new movie...

Mexico: Chiapas Kayaking

by nicktroutman | Apr 30, 2011 | Creeking, Featured Post, jacksonkayak.com, JK Team Posts, River Running, rivers, Team JK, Trip Reports, Whitewater

Mexico is one of my most favorite places in the world to paddle. I love the warm weather and water, the mexico food, cheap beer, great rapids and waterfalls, it just has everything. Though most of the time I spend in the state of Vera Cruz. Though pretty much...

Creeking in the Chiapas, Mexico

by nicktroutman | Apr 20, 2011 | Creeking, Featured Post, jacksonkayak.com, JK Team Posts, River Running, Team JK, Trips

I have been in Mexico for just over half a week and it has been sick. I met up with the Adidas Sickline Team and Rafa Ortiz as our little mexican guide. We all flew into Cancun, took 4 different bus rides and 24 hours to get to Palenque. We have been based out of a...

Africa Combos: video

by nicktroutman | Apr 9, 2011 | Featured Post, jacksonkayak.com, JK Team Posts, Playboating, rivers, Rockstar, Team JK, Trip Reports, Video, Whitewater

Team Jackson Kayak has been working hard to continue to push the sport of freestyle kayaking, and with the new rockstar it just got easier. Check out some combos that we have all been working on while on the White Nile in Uganda, Africa....