Ugandan Freestyle Championships 2017 and Team Selections

by Jessie Stone | Mar 8, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Event Coverage, Events, Playboating, rivers, Team JK, Whitewater, Wrap Ups, WW Disciplines

Though most people associate kayaking events in Uganda with the Nile River Festival which happens every January, this year, friday the 24th of February was the Ugandan Freestyle Championships. It was also the team selection for the Ugandan Freestyle Team which is...

Fishing the Peshtigo River

by Carter Petersen | Mar 4, 2017 | Family Zone, Fishing, rivers, Skipper

One of my favorite things about fishing is that you never really know what you are going to catch. My grandfather, dad, brother and myself spent the day fishing for bluegills and perch on the Peshtigo River (northeastern Wisconsin), but we also caught some really nice...

I _____ in my Antix.

by katiejackson | Mar 3, 2017 | Antix, Creeking, Reviews, rivers, Video, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

I _______ in my Antix. I found a couple words to fill in that blank during my PFD of the Suicide and Upper Two sections of the Little River Canyon in Alabama. I brought the Antix for the weekend expecting to make low flows more fun. Then Mother Nature blessed us with...

Paddling the Mecan river

by Carter Petersen | Mar 2, 2017 | Family Zone, Fishing, Fishing Subjects, rivers, Skipper

I took my JK Skipper down the Mecan River. Sometimes my Skipper just helps me get to places that I want to fish. Every once in a while I had to stop to see if the trout were biting. Another awesome day to be out on the water. In the picture of me paddling, my grandma...

My First Kayak Fishing Tournament!

by Sam Hanggi | Mar 1, 2017 | Event Coverage, Events, Fishing, Fishing Tournament, River Bassin Tournament, Tournaments, Wrap Ups

It was the summer of 2014 when I fished my fist kayak fishing tournament. I was thirteen years old and fairly new to the sport, so I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. A few weeks prior to the tournament I had found the River Bassin tournament trail online which...

Jackson Antix

by teamjk | Mar 1, 2017 | Antix, Creeking, Playboating, Reviews, River Running, rivers, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

The new Jackson Antix has been getting a bunch of attention since it was released a couple of months ago. My local kayak shop, The Kayak Shed in Hood River, OR has been nice and let me take it out a few times. This new creek boating river play machine is an excellent...

Summer Dreams Penobscot River

by Adam Swett | Feb 21, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Playboating, rivers, Video, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

The winter of 2017 has been a good one up here in Maine. It has been mild for the most part which means 30 degrees during the day and there has been some good ocean surf as well. Winters here can be severely cold and snowy but this one has allowed for some good...

No Unhappy Babies Allowed

by katiejackson | Feb 15, 2017 | Whitewater

This is a lesson every kayaker should learn. The unhappy baby idea comes from one of Stephen Wright’s legendary speeches at Keeners. I thought every keener had heard it but recently learned it is a rarity. It’s pretty hilarious to look at pictures of unhappy babies,...

Starting the Year Off Right in Uganda – The Nile River Festival

by Jessie Stone | Feb 7, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Event Coverage, Events, Internationalisation, Playboating, United States, Whitewater, Wrap Ups, WW Disciplines

This January marked the 14-year anniversary of my first trip to Uganda – wow has time flown by! Never in a million years would I have imagined how that trip would have changed my life. Today, 14 years later, I am still paddling as much as I can on the Nile which turns...

Heard of the Antix? Of course you have

by Dane Jackson | Feb 5, 2017 | Antix, Creeking, Playboating, Reviews, River Running, rivers, Team JK, Trip Reports, Trips, Video, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

By now i’m sure you have heard about the Antix, i mean besides Beyonce’s twins announcement its pretty much the biggest thing on the internet right now. But it’s being talked about for good reason. Over the last few years other boats have come out...

Upper Gauley with the Keeners

by teamjk | Feb 1, 2017 | Creeking, Instructional, Video, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

As many of you know, the Upper Gauley is by far one of the coolest rivers on the East coast. Not only does it provide some of the best big water around, but also allows for some “sneaky creeky” moves. My first time down was during the Gauley Fest of 2016 (Maybe a...

Face Melting Clas III on the Cranberry

by shanegroves | Jan 28, 2017 | 2014 Karma Unlimited, Creeking, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

When West Virgina gets good flows cycling in, it doesn’t get much better. We can hit up a high water play run on the New or catch a classic class V creek. It is hard to venture from the epic, action packed goods, but we have so many easy wilderness runs that get...