How to Lean Clean by Bartoz Czauderna | Jan 24, 2023 | Featured Post, Instructional, jacksonkayak.com, JAdventures Main Banner, Playboating, Whitewater, Whitewater Feature, Whitewater Instruction, WW DisciplinesLearn to Lean Clean by doing exercises in the video! What is it? Lean Clean is a spinning technique that makes you spin around on Flat Water by digging in your ends without using your paddle. This technique will help you strengthen your core muscles and introduce you...
What an epic year 2022 by Jack Newland | Jan 21, 2023 | jacksonkayak.com, JAdventures Main Banner, Playboating, Whitewater, Whitewater Feature, WW DisciplinesStarting 2023 with a little look back at 2022. It’s been quite some time since I did one of these videos, but considering how good 2022 was I thought it was a good idea. The last 3 years have been epic but here is a video to let you all know what iv been up to....
The Feelings of Losing by Cashion Porter Shirley | Jan 19, 2023 | Featured Post, jacksonkayak.com, JAdventures Main Banner, Playboating, Rockstar, Whitewater, Whitewater Feature, WW DisciplinesI came into the 2022 Freestyle World Cups in Columbus, GA, with complete confidence in my ability to quickly adapt to the new features and create rides that could take me to the top. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen. I felt strong in prelims of WC 1 (Ambush), but my...
How to Stern Stall by Bartoz Czauderna | Jan 17, 2023 | Blogroll, Instructional, jacksonkayak.com, JAdventures Main Banner, Playboating, Whitewater, Whitewater Feature, Whitewater Instruction, WW DisciplinesLearn to STERN STALL by doing exercises in the video! What is it? Stern Stall is a vertical end at the angle minimum of 70 degrees held for at least 3 seconds. It is a more advanced move than Tailee however, after mastering it, learning the stall will be easier. Step...
How to Tailie by Bartoz Czauderna | Jan 15, 2023 | Featured Post, jacksonkayak.com, JAdventures Main Banner, Playboating, Whitewater, Whitewater Feature, WW DisciplinesLearn to TAILIE by doing exercises in the video! What is it? Tailie is one end done on the tail at an angle of minimum 70 degrees. This is one of the most fun and versatile freestyle moves, as it can be done on the river in any kind of low stern volume boat. Step by...
Wesley’s 2022 Rain Gauge Report by wildwildwes | Jan 12, 2023 | Creeking, Featured Post, jacksonkayak.com, JAdventures Main Banner, Playboating, River Running, Whitewater, Whitewater Feature, WW DisciplinesThe spread sheets below are data from my rain gauge I have installed at my house in Elizabethton, TN. It’s a true nerdy rain gauge measuring precipitation to the nearest 1/100th of an inch daily. 2022 turned out to be a less than an average year for rainfall for our...
How to Double Pump by Bartoz Czauderna | Jan 6, 2023 | Featured Post, Instructional, jacksonkayak.com, JAdventures Main Banner, Playboating, Whitewater Feature, 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...
How to Airscrew by JK Team | Jan 5, 2023 | Canada, Featured Post, Instructional, jacksonkayak.com, JAdventures Main Banner, Playboating, Rockstar, Whitewater, Whitewater Feature, Whitewater Instruction, WW Disciplinessubmitted by Luke Pomeroy Here is an instructional video I made on my favourite kayaking trick, The Airscrew! I hope it can be helpful to anyone that wants to learn this super fun trick and I hope there is useful information in this video that isn’t as prevalent...
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...