The 2022 World Freestyle Kayaking Championships – the Best Ever!

by Jessie Stone | Jul 5, 2022 | Event Coverage, Events, Featured Post, Internationalisation, jacksonkayak.com, JAdventures Main Banner, Playboating, Rockstar, Rockstar 4.0, Rockstar Carbon, UK, Whitewater, Whitewater Feature, WW Disciplines

The 2022 Freestyle Kayaking World Championships finished yesterday in Nottingham, England and what a whirlwind week of Worlds it was! This is my 6th Worlds as a member of the US Women’s Freestyle Kayak team, and this year may have been the best! First off, the feature...

Courtney Kerin – A Decade of competing at Worlds

by Courtney Kerin | Dec 31, 2019 | 2014 RockStar Competition, Playboating, Rockstar, RockStar 2019, Rockstar 4.0, Rockstar Carbon, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

For the last ten consecutive years I have competed in every World Cup and World Championships of Freestyle Kayaking. From my first World Cups back in 2010 as a 16 year old in Augsburg and Plattling, Germany; when i first found my way into the greatest international...

Ottawa Valley Summer: video

by nicktroutman | Sep 18, 2014 | Featured Post, JK Team Posts, Rockstar Carbon, Team JK, Trip Reports, Trips, Video, Video, Whitewater

The Ottawa Valley is where I was born and raised. It is where I learned to kayak, and still one of my favorite places on Earth to kayak. Summertime on the Ottawa is hard to beat; warm water, perfect levels, good fishing, fun waves. To me this is the definition of...

Corner Wave Classic

by nicktroutman | Sep 8, 2014 | Featured Post, JK Team Posts, Rockstar, Rockstar Carbon, Team JK, Tournaments, Trip Reports, Whitewater

Corner Wave is one of the best features on the Ottawa river, though being that it can be a bit tricky at times, and sometimes can randomly flush you it is rarely the location for a large scale event. This year we decided to change that and start the annual Corner Wave...

Whitewater Grand Prix: Stage 5: Freestyle: Results/video

by nicktroutman | May 11, 2014 | Events, Featured Post, JK Team Posts, Playboating, Rockstar Carbon, Team JK, Trip Reports, Video, Whitewater

We just finished up the 5th Stage of the Whitewater Grand Prix. It was the last freestyle event on such an amazing feature. It felt like a slightly smaller but faster Skookumchuck wave. The format was everyone got four 1 minute rides, with your best ride counting. Out...

Whitewater Grand Prix- Stage 1 ‘Big Trick’ Gladiator

by nicktroutman | Apr 29, 2014 | Featured Post, jacksonkayak.com, JK Team Posts, Playboating, Rockstar Carbon, Team JK, Video, Whitewater

The first Stage of the Grand Prix finished up with the Big Trick Competition on Gladiator yesterday. We were lucky enough to start the whole Gran Prix off with a bang: Big Water, Sunny Sky, and some huge tricks. Here is a little GoPro Teaser, stay tuned for the Stage...

Spring and Big Loops have Sprung!

by Clay Wright | Apr 17, 2014 | Playboating, Rockstar Carbon, Whitewater

Spring is in the air and so were our kayaks! Stephen Wright and I headed over to the Pigeon last week on the chance that we would catch a release – and got lucky. The 1600cfs flow proved perfect for getting the hard technical tricks and combos we needed to...

SPB River Fest

by Mathieu Dumoulin | Apr 9, 2014 | JK Team Posts, Rockstar, Rockstar Carbon, Whitewater

Le petit nouveau du FKT, le SPB river Fest a vécu sa première édition le week-end dernier. Ca a été une belle réussite avec une quantité de bonne volonté impressionnante autour, notamment du Club Nautique de la Platière, une fréquentation qu’on n’avait pas...

River of Life & the Flow of Time

by Jason Craig | Dec 12, 2012 | Rockstar Carbon, Whitewater

I breathe in deeply and close my eyes to calm the flow of thoughts in my mind. This is my last ride of the entire competition. I am sitting in 5th, the lowest position I could be in the finals. This is my last chance, but no matter what I have already succeeded. All...

Biggest Loops on Earth? Kelly’s Nationals today!

by Clay Wright | Jul 7, 2012 | Playboating, Rockstar, Rockstar Carbon, Team JK, Whitewater

In the middle of an Idaho meadow lies possibly the biggest loop spot on Earth. The Kelly’s Whitewater Center features several man-made rapids but the top one is the biggest and baddest and is where we are having the US Freestyle National Championships today....

World’s Training- May

by ericjackson | May 11, 2011 | EJ Thoughts, JK Team Posts, Playboating, Rockstar, Rockstar Carbon, the athlete, Whitewater

Training for the World Championships in Plattling, Germany is heating up for me, as we draw near to the actual event.   Unlike many sports, Freestyle Kayaking World Championships only take place one time every two years!  This really makes each World Championships a...

Record Scoring Rides at River Festival Create a Heated Competition!

by ericjackson | May 9, 2011 | Rockstar Carbon, the athlete, Whitewater, Wrap Ups

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzlLw4TGAsU[/youtube] Any good competitor knows that you can’t control what your competition does, so you have to focus on your own performance.    I won my first two events in 2011 for Freestyle competition this year,...