Summer Recap Pt. 2: Colorado by Hannah Ray | Nov 28, 2022 | Featured Post, jacksonkayak.com, JAdventures Main Banner, Playboating, Rockstar, Whitewater, Whitewater Feature, WW DisciplinesAfter wrapping up the Charles City Challenge in Iowa, our travel crew (myself, SO Marty, and dog Bella) loaded up our self-outfitted van and prepared to embark on our summer road trip journey. For this trip we paired down our equipment a bit from our normal weekend...
Dealing With Fear by Boyd Ruppelt | Nov 18, 2022 | Featured Post, Instructional, jacksonkayak.com, JAdventures Main Banner, Playboating, Whitewater Feature, Whitewater Instruction, WW DisciplinesFear. Out of skydiving, scuba diving, shark diving, snowboarding, surfing, caving, biking, skateboarding and everything else I’ve taken a moment in my life to enjoy, kayaking is the biggest mental challenge I’ve taken on out of every extreme sport. I have...
How to Double Pump – Freestyle Unlocked by Bartoz Czauderna | Nov 9, 2022 | Instructional, jacksonkayak.com, JAdventures Main Banner, Playboating, Rockstar, Whitewater, Whitewater Feature, Whitewater Instruction, WW DisciplinesLearn to DOUBLE PUMP by doing exercises in the video! What is it? Double Pump is a technique that allows you to submerge your bow under the water, starting a vertical end. This is a foundation trick for all wheeling based tricks done either in the Feature, downriver...
We tried to get catapulted from a Raft to throw a backflip in a kayak by Thomas Dolle | Nov 2, 2022 | Featured Post, jacksonkayak.com, JAdventures Main Banner, Playboating, Rockstar, Video, Video, Whitewater, Whitewater Feature, WW DisciplinesBack in France for the summer, doing some raft guiding in St Pierre de Boeuf. There was one night where I was trying to think about some projects I could do, and I had this crazy idea. To take a raft down the first wave of St Pierre de Boeuf, and do what we call a...
STAKEOUT by Dane Jackson | Oct 29, 2022 | jacksonkayak.com, JAdventures Main Banner, JK Family Posts, Playboating, Rockstar, Video, Video, Whitewater, Whitewater Feature, WW DisciplinesStakeout is always one of my favorite times of the year, its just impossible to be disappointed. This spring was the first time getting to get the Rockstar V on big waves and it was insane, best spring I have ever had. It was the most progressive spring I have had...
Pro Tip: What to Wear While Paddling, especially in the Winter by Boyd Ruppelt | Oct 28, 2022 | Creeking, Featured Post, Instructional, jacksonkayak.com, JAdventures Main Banner, JK University, Playboating, Video, Video, Whitewater, Whitewater Feature, Whitewater Instruction, WW DisciplinesWith more and beginners learning how to kayak, the question keeps coming up: what do I wear in the winter? It may sound like a stretch, but maximizes your time on the water and your comfort in your kayak can dramatically boost your learning curve. Typically, when this...
2022 World Cup’s- When the Paddling Community is Everything by Emily Jackson | Oct 18, 2022 | Event Coverage, Events, Featured Post, jacksonkayak.com, JAdventures Main Banner, Playboating, Rockstar, Whitewater, Whitewater Feature, WW DisciplinesIt’s been a couple days since the Freestyle Kayaking World Cups- The day after was a blur of packing up, helping many team JK athletes get organized to leave, and my Monday Morning meetings where I had to present the weeks numbers on online sales, click through rates...
Small Paddler Review of the Jackson Rockstar 5.0 by crystalgustin | Oct 12, 2022 | Featured Post, jacksonkayak.com, JAdventures Main Banner, Playboating, Rockstar, Whitewater, Whitewater Feature, WW DisciplinesIt seems like almost every time I jump in the Rockstar 5.0 I get asked “How is it different from the 4.0?” After kayaking the small a number of times throughout the summer, I believe I have a pretty good understanding of the differences. Personally speaking, this boat...
Antix 2.0 on the French Broad! by JK Team | Oct 6, 2022 | Antix, jacksonkayak.com, JAdventures Main Banner, Playboating, River Running, Whitewater, Whitewater Feature, WW Disciplinessubmitted by Adam Swett Last fall, winter and this spring/early summer I got out on the French Broad River on section 9 often mostly with the Antix 2.0 in the small. I am too big for it but I can fit and it paddles so sweet that unless the Big Laurel or Wilson was...
Unlocking New Locations!! | Paddling Australia by Jack Newland | Oct 5, 2022 | Antix, Australia, Creeking, Featured Post, Internationalisation, jacksonkayak.com, JAdventures Main Banner, Playboating, Rockstar, Whitewater, Whitewater Feature, WW DisciplinesIv wanted to surf this wave for so many years, its not big but its a really good shape. The only videos I had seen of this wave were of Anthony Yap from way back in the day. Me and a good friend decided to go one weekend and had a blast, also some really fun rapids...
Ocoee Summer Days by dianegaydos | Sep 29, 2022 | Featured Post, jacksonkayak.com, JAdventures Main Banner, Playboating, Rockstar, Whitewater, Whitewater Feature, WW DisciplinesThis summer we spent several fun filled days kayaking the Ocoee River. If you’ve never heard of it, it’s a fun dam release class 3 river in Tennessee, with tons of play. I finally got the chance to try out my new Rockstar V and it did not disappoint! It was so smooth....
Stakeout 2022 by JK Team | Sep 28, 2022 | Canada, Featured Post, Internationalisation, jacksonkayak.com, JAdventures Main Banner, Playboating, Rockstar, Whitewater, Whitewater Feature, WW Disciplinessubmitted by Luke Pomeroy If you don’t know, the Stakeout is springtime (April-early June) in Northern Quebec and the Ottawa valley when the rivers get super high from snowmelt. The high water brings the best waves in the world and amazing big water rapids to form....
