Road to Worlds With Team Jackson by teamjk | Apr 20, 2019 | Event Coverage, Events, Playboating, Rockstar 4.0, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesName: -Katie Fankhouser What country are you competing for? -Unites States of America Favorite place to train? -Buena Vista, Colorado USA How many World Championships have you competed in before? -1 Argentina 2017 What are your previous placements at Worlds? -4th in...
Montros Madness by teamjk | Jan 26, 2019 | Playboating, Rockstar 4.0, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesThe first annual M-Wave Fest was like no other event I have ever been to before. M-wave is a wave near Montrose Colorado that is formed in a concrete irrigation ditch in the middle of absolute nowhere. It is an incredibly fast moving, slightly shallow feature just...
How to Pick Between a Bigger or Smaller Freestyle Kayak by teamjk | Dec 9, 2018 | Playboating, Rockstar 4.0, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesEver been stuck deciding between a bigger freestyle kayak or a smaller one? Well here is my advice. I am currently 115lbs (about 52 kg) and I paddle both the XS and Small Rockstar. For me, there are definitely pros and cons to both. Smaller Boat Pros: I love my XS...
A Summer On Wheels by teamjk | Dec 6, 2018 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Family Zone, Playboating, Reviews, Trip Reports, Trips, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesEver since I started kayaking it has been my dream to take off to chase whitewater. This summer that dream came true. I got my license on June 5th, and with my kayak mobile all loaded and ready, I set out the morning of June 6th. First stop was Vail for the GoPro...
GoPro Mountain Games 2018 by teamjk | Dec 1, 2018 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Event Coverage, Events, Family Zone, Playboating, Whitewater, Wrap Ups, WW DisciplinesThis year at the GoPro Mountain Games I got to compete against some of the worlds best freestyle kayakers. I like this competition because it is not divided into classes, all the women compete against each other regardless of their age. This gave me a chance to see...
The Best Day Ever! by teamjk | Oct 4, 2018 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Family Zone, Playboating, River Running, rivers, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesToday was the best day ever. Today was big water beatdown Thursday, and it was epic! For those of you who don’t know what this is, it’s basically where all the keener’s do something that scares them. For many of us that was getting owned by the...
Skookumchuck Stardust by katiejackson | Aug 22, 2018 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Playboating, rivers, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesI’ve always dreamed of how magical it would be to surf Skook, but somehow I’d never heard of the magic in the water. I’m fairly certain I’m not the only one either. In all of my time drooling over footage of the wave with friends no one ever mentioned it. During...
Event Recap: Beaters’ Boating Banger by katiejackson | May 3, 2018 | Event Coverage, Events, rivers, WhitewaterI’ve heard rumors of times long, long ago when there were competitions between the southeastern collegiate kayaking clubs… Times when college clubs would travel around on a “tour” between schools’ home runs for races and freestyle competitions. Today, the southeastern...
Where My Where My Jackson Kayak Has Taken Me (San Juan, Argentina) by teamjk | Jan 1, 2018 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Playboating, Trip Reports, Trips, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesTravel Lyons, Colorado to San Juan, Argentina, practically just a hop a skip and a jump away, or not. Really it was more like 5 hops, 20 skips and 18 jumps. I was so exited to get there, that every drive, every bus ride and every flight felt like watching paint dry....
How to Be Smooth by katiejackson | Nov 4, 2017 | Antix, Creeking, Instructional, River Running, rivers, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesAccording to wikiHow, to be smooth with the ladies you need to be playful, stay effortlessly in control of the situation, keep your reactions low-key, casually initiate affection, and be funny. I googled “How to be smooth” in hopes of finding a funny opening, but some...
Facing Fears in Durango Colorado by teamjk | Oct 2, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Event Coverage, Events, Playboating, rivers, Whitewater, Wrap Ups, WW DisciplinesThis year I went to a competition called The Animas River Days in Durango Colorado. The whitewater park there is a series of big waves. I had never been on a wave before so I was exited to try it out, but when I got there I was shocked by the size of them. In my mind...
2017 Green River Takeover- Event Recap by katiejackson | Sep 1, 2017 | Creeking, Event Coverage, Events, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Whitewater, Wrap Ups, WW DisciplinesAmazing, spectacular, phenomenal, extraordinary, preeminent, astounding, … How could you pick just one adjective to describe this event? In the past, something has always come up the same weekend as the take over. This year, schedules aligned, and I had the honor of...
