Truck Life Tour Episode 3: Columbus, Georgia

by sethashworth | Apr 13, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Media, Playboating, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

After a tiring weekend on the Nolichucky I was excited for another change of scene, and Stephen Wright suggested we join him down in the ‘dirty south’ of Columbus, Georgia where the USA National Championships will be held in April.  At first I wasn’t super...

2017 Freestyle Nationals Training with Kaelin and Tom

by teamjk | Apr 12, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, JK Little Shredders, Playboating, rivers, Video, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

Training for Freestyle Nationals on the Columbus Waves So after a fun weekend of friends, slalom, and hole-play at NOC, I was lucky enough for Spring Break to go to Columbus, Georgia to train with Tom Dollé on Good Wave. I met Tom last summer on the Ottawa, and we...

Proper Blue water – Tekapo Freestyle competition NZ

by Claire OHara | Apr 11, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Event Coverage, Events, Playboating, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Whitewater, Wrap Ups, WW Disciplines

After the Academy finished we all jumped in cars and headed to Tekapo for 2 days of guaranteed water releases and non stop freestyle. Stopping on route for a quick hike up Mount Cooke. I had heard that alot of work had been put into the course and that the features...

Little Shedder Holden: First Day Back Out Onto The River

by teamjk | Apr 10, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, JK Little Shredders, Playboating, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Video, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

  April 22 is the first day this year that I have had the privilege to get back out onto the river. I would have much rather been on the river this winter but I injured my ACL playing lacrosse. So I was not mobile for a few weeks.I was more eager than ever to get...

Hawea Academy

by Claire OHara | Apr 8, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Family Zone, Kid's Kayaks, Playboating, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

So on January 22nd, 36 kids from across Australasia came together for the 3rd annual Hawea Academy. World class coaches Claire O’Hara, Dennis Newton and Anna Bruno flew in to the New Zealands South Island to join a team of local up and coming coaches to host...

#TruckLifeTour Episode 1: Follow the adventures of Team paddlers Seth Ashworth and Brooke Hess

by sethashworth | Apr 4, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Playboating, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

If you are a regular follower of my blog you will know that I was recently in Colombia, Ecuador before that.  But Whilst I had a great time in both of those locations, my Jackson Kayak team mate Brooke Hess called me up and offered me a spot in her truck to...

One of my favorite places to paddle – Little Shredder Kaelin checks in

by teamjk | Apr 3, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Event Coverage, Events, JK Little Shredders, Kid's Kayaks, Playboating, Whitewater, Wrap Ups, WW Disciplines

One of my favorite places to paddle is NOC, and it is even better when I can do my two favorite kinds of kayaking there. This weekend I completed in the US Open for slalom, and afterwards, I went playing in the hole in my Rock Star XS. While I was slaloming on the...

Calling all kids who love to kayak! :)

by Jezz | Apr 1, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Family Zone, JK Little Shredders, JK Team Posts, Kid's Kayaks, Playboating, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

Jackson kayak is running a competition for 2 spots on the Jackson kayak Little Shredder team. We are looking 2 kids who love to kayak and we are opening these spots for kids under 15 years old. You can be a playboater, a creeker, a river runner or just a paddler doing...

Christmas in July

by teamjk | Mar 31, 2017 | 2015 Zen, 2016 Rock Star Competition, Creeking, Playboating, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

Over the winter of 2015 – 2016 I outgrew my Jackson Kayak Shooting Star, I was so big for it, I was practically sinking it. Though the smaller boat made it easier to control my tricks and it gave me more power, it also took away all of my buoyancy and air. So it...

California Dreaming – This is the year to boat Cali!

by Hilde Schweitzer | Mar 26, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Playboating, River Running, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

With snowpack at close to 200%, and water content at an all time historic high, California is definitely the place to boat this summer.  The problem won’t be IF there will be water like it has been the past 5 years, it will be what run has a low enough level...

The Perfect Spring (Almost) Day

by Jessie Stone | Mar 21, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, River Running, rivers, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

What’s the best Spring-soon-to-be day you can have in the Northern Hemisphere?? It goes something like this: You wake up to beautiful sunshine and cloudless skies on the mountains of the Berner Oberland in Switzerland where it was cold enough to freeze the previous...

Winter Boating in Jackson Hole!

by janekoopman | Mar 18, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Clinics, Event Coverage, Events, Family Zone, Instructional, Playboating, Uncategorized, Video, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

We may still be skiing deep snow in the Tetons but we we have not forgotten about boating either! Each week the Jackson Hole Community Center opens up a section of its pool for kayakers to get in their boats, or those provided by the Jackson Hole Kayak School, and...