Best day of the week; Beatdown Thursday w/ The Keener Program by Dane Jackson | Mar 6, 2020 | Playboating, Whitewater, Whitewater FeatureBest day of the week; Beatdown Thursday w/ The Keener Program The Ottawa river is home to many notorious programs for teaching kayaking, but one of the best is the legendary Keener program led by Stephen Wright. Over the summer months dozens of kids from all...
10 Days in Uganda… by ericjackson | Nov 21, 2018 | Internationalisation, Rockstar 4.0, United States, WhitewaterEmily changed her ticket to fly two days before me, so that she would more likely hit Nile Special Wave before it got flooded out. She pulled it off and had a 4 hour session on the Nile Special at epic levels in her new Rock Star 4.0. I...
Jackson Kayak MixMaster Debuts on Ocoee!!! by ericjackson | Feb 10, 2018 | Internationalisation, MixMaster, Playboating, United States, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesEJ Blasting Broken Nose in his new MixMaster 7.0… OK, so I have been paddling slicey boats and designing slicey boats with David Knight since the 90’s. With the creation of the X, XXX, and Forplay designs we created a trend that...
EJ’s Gives Some Beta/Insight into the 2017 World Championships by ericjackson | Nov 23, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, EJ, Event Coverage, Internationalisation, Playboating, the athlete, United States, Whitewater, WW Disciplines Official Program for the 2017 World Freestyle Championships Starts Tomorrow! Today is the final day of open practice for the World Championships here in San Juan, Argentina. Starting tomorrow the day is divided up by National Teams and...
Jackson Kayak’s Newest Design Concept- MixMaster Hits the Gauley River and Festival by ericjackson | Sep 20, 2017 | Internationalisation, MixMaster, United States, WhitewaterRafa, well, he likes the Beasty Boys, and while he hasn’t paddled this boat, is fired up for it! It is cool to see the reactions to this new design by new school and old school boaters! Did you know that there is a slicey boat craze going on out...
Jackson Kayak- Who we are and Why…. a short essay by EJ by ericjackson | Aug 5, 2017 | EJ, EJ Thoughts, Internationalisation, United States, WhitewaterPushing the Envelope, one boat, one decision at a time… There has always been something unique about Jackson Kayak, a theme, if you will, that broke the trend of the kayak industry when we started. For that matter, there are many unique things about...
EJ’s Gauley Fest update 2014… Photos… by ericjackson | Sep 21, 2014 | Karma Unlimited, WhitewaterThis was a whirlwind Gauley for the Jackson family. We left Rock Island on Thursday in time to eat at Pies and Pints that night, the Cathedral in the morning and then a Karma run on Friday for Nick and I on the Upper, while Dane, Emily, Courtney, and Alec paddled...
World Cup Freestyle Kayak #2 in Spain recorded on Livestream by ericjackson | Jul 7, 2014 | WhitewaterIf you were out enjoying the 4th of July weekend and missed the World Cup Finals Here are the finals for both Men and Women’s classes! It was an amazing weekend for Team Jackson Kayak and the new 2014 Rock Star Competition model! It was awesome to see the...
Payette River Games- Day 2- Cut to Finals! by ericjackson | Jun 22, 2014 | JK Team Posts, Rockstar, the athlete, Whitewater, Wrap Ups Lots of tough cuts to pair down for the finals on Sunday. Downriver SUP: Starting with 60 men in SUP, we are down to the top 20 in downriver and 15 in SUP Cross. Kai Lenny from Hawaii won the downriver sprint for his second day in a row and Fernando...
Payette River Games Day 1: by ericjackson | Jun 21, 2014 | the athlete, Whitewater, Wrap UpsSUP/Surf World Meets Whitewater Kayak World (Kai and EJ) BIG Days of competition if you are doing SUP and Kayak. Downriver race, Boatercross, SUP Cross, Freestyle, 8 Ball all in one day… THEN you do it all again today, and assuming you make finals, again...
Secrets of Using GoPro Cameras- What We Learned at the Team GoPro Summit…. by ericjackson | May 18, 2014 | the teacher, WhitewaterScott Blase asked me today- “Can you share what they taught you at the GoPro Team Summit?” I figured that is a great idea, as it was quite an eye opener for me, and worth sharing with everyone. If you want to be better at using GoPro cameras, knowing the...
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, WhitewaterWe 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...
