Finals at Pigeon River- World Cup #2- BIG rides- Big Excitement! by ericjackson | Sep 2, 2012 | Whitewater, Wrap UpsAwesome Rides at the incredibly user friendly Pigeon River Hole today. The Men’s Finals was electrifying with nail biting suspense during a showdown between Peter Csonka and Dane Jackson that was amazing. The Women’s finals was also incredible as...
Veronique against the Butcher, Shipshaw river by JK Team | Sep 2, 2012 | ZenEnter the Zen 65, even if she had our baby boy this winter and she didn’t paddle much last summer because of the pregancy, she’s back in her boat and she’s boating the best she ever have. The Zen inspire confidence and she just love it for everything...
Rogue at Lake Chickasha, OK by JK Team | Sep 2, 2012 | RogueThis picture is from the first time I paddled my new Rogue. I arrived in the pre-dawn hours and was able to experience the spectacular sunrise. I had the idea to put my camera just resting on the water and try to capture my boat and the sunrise at the same time. The...
World Kayak “Am I Ready for the Gauley yet?” by colinkemp | Sep 2, 2012 | Whitewater Have you ever boated the Gauley river? If not this event is for you. Would you like to paddle this world class river for the first time with some of team JK’s best and brightest? Of course your answer is yes, so what you need to do is send a paddling resume to...
Women’s Quarters and Semis at WC Pigeon Event by jacksonkayak | Aug 31, 2012 | WhitewaterGreat day for Jackson this, the third day of the Pigeon River World Cup of Freestyle Kayaking! After two rounds of intensly close scores, the top 3 is filled with Allstars and Rockstars. It was a see saw battle between the top three contenders, world champ Claire...
Men’s K1 Quarter-Semis at Pigeon World Cup Stop by jacksonkayak | Aug 31, 2012 | WhitewaterAnother great day on the water, full of action and back to back competitions with most divisions down to the top 10 for a day of quarter and semifinals. After the first two days of prelims, there were a lot of unanswered questions as to who was at the top of their...
World Cup Freestyle Squirt Prelims at Pigeon! by jacksonkayak | Aug 29, 2012 | WhitewaterDay 2 sees a bunch of preliminary rounds, Squirt started it all off. With a cool format where squirt was the only event, the entire crowd headed to the island point on the Pigeon river for the men’s squirt preliminaries. Both traditional squirt and playboat...
K1 Womens Prelim Results, Pigeon River World Cup event #2 by jacksonkayak | Aug 29, 2012 | WhitewaterGreat day for JK in the women’s we saw Claire, Ruth, Emily and Courtney in the top 5 sandwiching the incredible Nina Csonkova who again came out to play. The top 10 moving on to the next round will make this very interesting as the top paddlers from event 1...
World Cup Juniors hit the Pigeon for Womens and Men’s K1 by jacksonkayak | Aug 29, 2012 | WhitewaterThe juniors were out in force ensuring we were all entertained. Huge air was the name of the day for the JR men with Brendon Orton powering his kayak to one of the top combined scores in this feature, a 2254. Results with the top 10 going through: Rank Name Country...
Getting the hang of it! Max in his Fun 1! by JK Team | Aug 29, 2012 | Kid's Kayaks, WhitewaterMax is very excited about his Fun1 and even when we’re not on the water he likes to wash it with his smiley-face Jackson sponge! He’s still not quite four and he’s never paddled his own boat before, so there’s a lot to learn. To complicate...
Lower Yough and Cincy Paddlers by Scott Blase | Aug 29, 2012 | WhitewaterHad a great trip to the Lower Yough this past weekend….15 brave souls showed up for an awesome weekend in PA. I ran the lower section just below the falls on Saturday with Cincy Paddlers, one of the largest paddling groups in the country. We camped at Tall Oaks...
Huck Colorado – Taylor River by Jezz | Aug 29, 2012 | Fun, Hero, jacksonkayak.com, rivers, Uncategorized, WhitewaterToday we woke to a (mostly) cloudless sky and a beautiful morning sun, a nice change from yesterday evenings’ rainy, wet weather. We packed our boats in the vans and headed to the RMOC outpost. Once we decided on which river we would paddle, the Taylor River, and we...
