Oh yea!!! Friday is a FUN Day!! ALL NEW JACKSON FUN! by ericjackson | Jul 12, 2014 | the innovator, WhitewaterToday the new FUN was born! The mold arrived and was carefully framed up, the first few boats done to dial into mold in, get the thicknesses right, get the weight right, and then BINGO! I have a green and a red Fun in my RV heading to Canada. There, we’ll shoot...
Happy Birthday America- From Everyone at Jackson Kayak! by ericjackson | Jul 4, 2014 | EJ Thoughts, Fishing, the innovatorJackson Kayak is an international company, and we love the world. We have friends, customers, team members, and important people all over the world. We love them all. Today, however, is Independence Day. Being an American myself, and founding Jackson Kayak...
Can You Get Remote Fitness Coaching by EJ? Yes- Now you can! (and save 25%) by ericjackson | Jun 30, 2014 | Fitness, the athlete, WhitewaterI have long believed that fitness is one of the few areas that you can take charge of in your life that makes a huge difference in your quality of life. Of course we all suffer from illness or injury in our lives, but both of these are better weathered if you are...
Payette River Games- Day 2- Cut to Finals! by ericjackson | Jun 22, 2014 | JK Team Posts, Rockstar, the athlete, Whitewater, Wrap Ups Lots of tough cuts to pair down for the finals on Sunday. Downriver SUP: Starting with 60 men in SUP, we are down to the top 20 in downriver and 15 in SUP Cross. Kai Lenny from Hawaii won the downriver sprint for his second day in a row and Fernando...
Payette River Games Day 1: by ericjackson | Jun 21, 2014 | the athlete, Whitewater, Wrap UpsSUP/Surf World Meets Whitewater Kayak World (Kai and EJ) BIG Days of competition if you are doing SUP and Kayak. Downriver race, Boatercross, SUP Cross, Freestyle, 8 Ball all in one day… THEN you do it all again today, and assuming you make finals, again...
Catch More Bass per strike on any lure… understand what is going on under the water… by ericjackson | Jun 14, 2014 | Big Rig, Cuda, Fishing, Instructional, the teacherIt is not uncommon for people to ask, “Are the bass biting today?” and the accurate answer is always “no, they are not biting, but they are attempting to inhale today!” Fishing for bass is quite a complicated process to do well repeatedly. It entails finding...
2014 GoPro Mountain Games Wrap Up… photos, video too! by ericjackson | Jun 9, 2014 | 2014 Karma Unlimited, Creeking, EJ Thoughts, JK Team Posts, Karma Unlimited, the athlete, Whitewater, Wrap Ups2014 GoPro Mountain Games will go down on the record books for many factors. Most attendance- 75,000 people on Saturday. Best Water levels- Gore Creek hovered around 1,000 CFS all week without spiking and flooding, or dropping too low. Homestake creek was the...
Urban Kayaking Freestyle Move, Set to Street Musicians… by ericjackson | May 22, 2014 | Playboating, the athlete, the innovator, WhitewaterDominion River Rock Festival put on by the “Sports Backers” of Richmond, VA (Jon Lugbill, for those who remember this slalom legend), was another huge success with 100,000 people in attendance over two days and epic weather and water… While warming...
Secrets of Using GoPro Cameras- What We Learned at the Team GoPro Summit…. by ericjackson | May 18, 2014 | the teacher, WhitewaterScott Blase asked me today- “Can you share what they taught you at the GoPro Team Summit?” I figured that is a great idea, as it was quite an eye opener for me, and worth sharing with everyone. If you want to be better at using GoPro cameras, knowing the...
How to Fish the Standing Brush for Large Mouth Bass by ericjackson | May 12, 2014 | Cuda, EJ Thoughts, Fishing, InstructionalFishing for bass is often fishing where you think you can place your lure. Bass don’t really care where you can cast to, they only care that they have good cover to hide in and attack and eat unsuspecting prey. This is often way deeper into the brush than...
12- Pound Big Bass- Big Rig- Big Fun! by ericjackson | May 8, 2014 | Big Rig, EJ Thoughts, Fishing, Instructional, JK-Rate (J Krate), the innovatorI have been catching lots of big bass lately in my Big Rig… seems that it is the goal of the big bass to tell their friends that they, too, have been in a Big Rig and it is bad to the bone. No matter what the reason, it has been fun fishing my new Big Rig with...
Win a Kayak and help me Raise $50k during my 50th for the Starkey Hearing Foundation by ericjackson | May 7, 2014 | EJ Thoughts, Featured Post, Jackson Dealers, WhitewaterAs you may already know, both Dane, and I have severe hearing loss, and KC has moderate loss. The issues this causes us and those around us if we don’t have hearing aids is immense. Dane and I are lucky however, as we have been able to function and get...
