4th Annual Boater Chick Fest

by samantharuppelt | May 4, 2011 | Whitewater

The Boater Chick Festival is a grass roots festival in the South East that was started by one of my favorite boater chicks, Anne Connolly. The purpose of the BCF is to provide an event that allows women paddlers to come together to paddle with each other, learn from...

Stephen Wright Signs with New River Academy

by stephenwright | May 3, 2011 | Clinics, Whitewater

Stephen Wright Signs with New River Academy What if you were assigned the task to produce the world’s best junior kayak high school both academically and athletically?  What characteristics would you want to teach and model? More importantly, whom would you hire for...

Feeling the Imminent Front Approaching- Exciting Train- No Getting Off Now!

by ericjackson | May 2, 2011 | Rockstar, Rockstar Carbon, Team JK, the athlete, Whitewater

Every since I heard the Achtung  Baby Album from U2 , with the one line in the song Zoo Station-  “Time is a Train… Makes the Future the Past…”    I like to imagine myself on a one way train with no exit that is barreling forwards through time...

Toketee Falls First Descent

by christopherkorbulic | Apr 29, 2011 | Whitewater

You don’t have to go far from home to find some great adventure. Last week I had the good fortune of waking up to a surprising amount of water in the North Umpqua River at Toketee Falls. I had been to Toketee a few times before, never at a runnable water level,...

Coosa in Florida!

by sonia | Apr 26, 2011 | Coosa

We had a great time in Florida (Jory at Florida Paddle Sports treated us well)… we ran those Coosa’s through the ringer and they performed magnificently.  The boats answered a lot of the things that the Daytrippers needed.  I’m gonna feel really...

Cross Link vs. Linear- A Dealers Perspective

by Kevin Brown | Apr 26, 2011 | Dealer, Whitewater

  Here at Strongwater Paddle Sports, we often have customers ask why cross link vs. linear plastic. It’s pretty simple when we pull out our demo boats and have them take a look at the hulls. Our demos get used and every single one of them still has a flat...

A Quick Hello at the Cartecay River Clean Up!

by Emily Jackson | Apr 26, 2011 | Whitewater

Cartecay River Clean Up- Quick Stop In! Dad, Dane and I did a Chattooga run with over 26 people on Friday, paddling down in groups of about ten and when we were finished, Atlanta World Kayak Ambassador, Rick Thompson, was super fired up to have us around and wanted us...

Gold Medal Camp, Brush Creek Extreme Race, Kern River Festival, 2011!

by sagedonnelly | Apr 24, 2011 | Journey, Kid's Kayaks, Uncategorized, Whitewater

For the 2nd year in a row, My family and I traveled to Kernville, Ca. to compete in the 47th Kern River Festival and 7th (?) annual Brush Creek Extreme Race.  We arrived about 2 weeks early so I could attend the Gold Medal Camp put on by former Olympic Gold Medalist...

JK Fun – a great teacher, and there to save your butt when needed!

by JK Team | Apr 23, 2011 | Instructional

I wanted to get into whitewater kayaking after several years of flatwater paddling that just wasn’t doing it for me anymore. Everybody told me I needed to get out of my larger crossover boat and into something smaller if I was going to learn anything. A JK Fun...

But Seriously

by Clay Wright | Apr 23, 2011 | Whitewater

I’ve been on the US Team before, my first time being in 1995, and I’ve always trained up on the spot and just paddled my brains out like normal leading up to the comp. But after 10 years of not making the Freestyle Kayak Team (besides in squirt) I now...

A Journey of a different kind, in Manhattan

by sonia | Apr 22, 2011 | Journey, Recreational/Touring

When my father , Dieter Stiller, one of the kayak industry’s pioneers of kayak distribution in the United States who has seen many a beautiful kayak in his 79 years saw the first “Journey” come of the the truck and unwrap on the front lawn of my...

Ravens Fork Video!

by Dane Jackson | Apr 22, 2011 | Whitewater

Here is a quick little video from my run down ravens fork the other day! Check it out! Dane Jackson [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ga25kobTdE[/youtube]