My First time doing Stakeout

by Tom Dolle | Sep 19, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Playboating, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Whitewater, Wrap Ups, WW Disciplines

For the first time of my life, I went all the way up to Canada for what we called “Stakeout” as a kayaker. Stakeout is the ice melt in Quebec and Ontario at the beggining of the spring so after a long and freezing winter. So when the ice melt in May, the...

OKC, Rafa video!

by colinkemp | Sep 14, 2017 | Antix, Clinics, Event Coverage, Events, Internationalisation, Playboating, River Running, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, United States, Video, Whitewater, Wrap Ups, WW Disciplines

Take a look at this great video that Michael Zubach made of a great event this past weekend in OKC. As I worked with Rafa and Dave at OKC to organize this event I knew it was going to be good based on my own experience teaching with the community in OKC, but even more...

Lotte the Little Shredder checks in about her summer

by JK Little Shredders | Sep 7, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Family Zone, JK Little Shredders, Kid's Kayaks, Playboating, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

This year I was lucky enough to leave the cold NZ winter and travel to Canada for the summer to attend the 2017 Keener program for session 1. This was my second year as a keener. I got to link up with a few of my keener mates from last year’s session and make new...

Another summer comes to an end.

by Jezz | Sep 5, 2017 | Australia, Internationalisation, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Whitewater

So this year has been one amazing summer for sure. I was fortunate enough to head to North Carolina and be a part of some great trips around the south-east. Heading up to West Virginia is always a favourite of mine. The new river has just about everything you could...

Total Totality Report:

by tylerbradt | Sep 3, 2017 | Antix, Creeking, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Video, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

In the United States of America, on August 21st, 2017 the moon went in front of the sun. For so many this indescribable cosmic experience put into perspective our small place in the universe as night time fell, in the middle of the day, and the perfect sphere of the...

2017 Green River Takeover- Event Recap

by katiejackson | Sep 1, 2017 | Creeking, Event Coverage, Events, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Whitewater, Wrap Ups, WW Disciplines

Amazing, spectacular, phenomenal, extraordinary, preeminent, astounding, … How could you pick just one adjective to describe this event? In the past, something has always come up the same weekend as the take over. This year, schedules aligned, and I had the honor of...

Montreal Eau Vive- Wild & Free Tour

by nicktroutman | Aug 24, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Event Coverage, Events, Nirvana, Playboating, Trip Reports, Trips, Video, Whitewater, Wrap Ups, WW Disciplines

// August 24, 2017 Montreal Eau Vive- Wild & Free Tour The Montreal Eau Vive is always one of my favorite events of the year being its unique nature of using Jet Ski shuttles and Jet Boat Boater-X, as well as the fact that it is a combination event including both...

Sparkleberry Swamp in the Karma RG

by kylethomas | Aug 21, 2017 | Karma RG, Recreational/Touring, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips

Since my early days of learning to kayak, I can often recall a mentor in the sport recommending that I visit Sparkleberry Swamp. Honestly, I had never heard of the place nor even knew which state it was in. But at every sea kayaking event I attended, someone would...

Don’t ever paddle the Salmon

by Jezz | Aug 20, 2017 | Australia, Creeking, Family Zone, Internationalisation, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Video, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

Basically because it will ruin your perception of all other rivers as the salmon river is one spectacular section of whitewater which has almost everything you could ever want in a river. The main Salmon has large safe rapids, spectacular scenery, wilderness adventure...

Finding meaning in kayaking

by sethdow | Aug 15, 2017 | Creeking, Karma, Nirvana, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

// August 15, 2017 Finding meaning in kayaking The reasons why we kayak shift over time. I have met and talked to many people who have “retired” from kayaking, people for whom kayaking has lost meaning. I have also been known to threaten retirement, basically every...

Caucasus Mountains

by dianegaydos | Aug 13, 2017 | Creeking, Internationalisation, Karma, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, United States, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

Why are you spending two weeks in Georgia? This was a common and recurring question leading up to our most recent trip. Living in Tennessee, most people understandably associate Georgia with the bordering state directly south. Patiently we would explain that our trip...

Letting go of Perfection: A Summer Lesson

by JK Little Shredders | Aug 9, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Family Zone, JK Little Shredders, Kid's Kayaks, Playboating, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

 Over the summer, when I went to the Ottawa River for the OKS Keener program, I was introduced to big wave surfing, which I found new and quite appealing! There was only one problem, I was missing so many passes!  When I first started kayaking, I learned in...