Hip strength to improve your skills by samantharuppelt | Nov 15, 2018 | Fitness, Instructional, Video, Whitewater, Whitewater InstructionTo the general public, and new boaters too, the thought is that kayaking is back dominant. It’s not until you start to navigate whitewater rivers and you start spending more time on the water that you realize kayaking is, in fact, a full body activity. Maintaining hip...
Dirty Bird: Confidence Series 2017 by crystalgustin | Apr 14, 2017 | Event Coverage, Events, Media, WhitewaterMark your calendars ladies, this year Paddle In Pink’s Confidence Series on the Dirty Bird (Pigeon River, TN) is set for June 24th. Last year was a big success with over 20 women learning how to get vertical and throw about in a playboat. This year the format...
Yoga for Paddlers| Shoulder Reach Through Stretch by Anna Bruno | Sep 12, 2014 | WhitewaterThe mark of a kayaker, more than the beat up hands or a twice broken nose, or even a vocabulary diminished to the adjectives of “brown” “stout” “sick”, would have to be the shoulders. The broad, muscular, possibly even overdeveloped, yet with a history of...
Racing the Karma in the Maine WW Championships by Adam Swett | Aug 21, 2014 | WhitewaterThe second leg of the Maine Whitewater Chamionships took place here in northern Maine last month and went off without a hitch! http://www.mainewwc.com/results/2014-results/ We finally had some bigger water up here to challenge us but experienced less of a competitor...
Yoga for Paddlers: Side Stretch for your Lower Back and Hip by Anna Bruno | Aug 18, 2014 | WhitewaterWhen we sit in a kayak, our hips are typically below our knees, and our pelvis is tilted forwards underneath our ribcage. This position causes your hipflexors your iliopsoas muscle strains to contract, and can put immense strain on your quadrutus lumborum, a muscle...
Laps on the Falls and Sieve City in the Karma by Dane Jackson | Feb 3, 2013 | WhitewaterFor the last 2 weeks that i have been home paddling around in the karma, i have gotten it on suck creek a few times, bear creek a few times as well. But rock island has been spilling every day since i have been home, and all the in between days i have gotten on the...
Sweet Cheeks Make Paddling Better! by sagedonnelly | Apr 26, 2011 | Dynamic Duo, Kid's Kayaks, Uncategorized, WhitewaterI have been boating since the age of 2 and one of the problems I have always had was sitting up high enough in the kayak. When Jackson Kayak came out with Sweet Cheeks, It made a huge difference! They are super comfortable and easy to adjust and come in 2 sizes, 100...