Truck Life Tour 6: Back In Canada EH! by sethashworth | May 27, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Playboating, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesOk, here we are back on #TruckLifeTour proper, and now the focus of our tour shifts from hope boat training to big waves as we venture into one of my favorite zones, eastern Canada. My new home the Ottawa river is going rickter high and this is just the...
Little Shredder Lotte checks in from NZ by JK Little Shredders | May 23, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Event Coverage, Events, Family Zone, JK Little Shredders, Playboating, rivers, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesSo far this year has been awesome! It started off with a big splash when I attended the Hawea Whitewater camp with Claire, Anna, Josh, Dennis and other awesome coaches. We had the pleasure of hosting 4 Aussies and had 50+ people attending the camp. During the camp the...
Competing in Freestyle Nationals by JK Little Shredders | May 20, 2017 | Event Coverage, Events, Family Zone, JK Little Shredders, Kid's Kayaks, Playboating, Whitewater, Wrap Ups, WW DisciplinesA week has passed, and I’m back on the Potomac in Washington, DC after competing in the U.S. Freestyle National Championships in Columbus Georgia. I had a blast paddling with all my friends during the week before and then competing with them on Friday and...
JK Little Shredders Team announced by JK Little Shredders | May 15, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Family Zone, JK Little Shredders, Kid's Kayaks, Playboating, Team JK, Video, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesSo we have spent the last few weeks going though over 30 applications to the Jackson Kayak Little Shredders Team. There is so many amazing kids doing such fantastic things out there all over the world, with applications from Europe, Oceania all over America, almost...
Rockstar Surf Madison, Maine by Adam Swett | May 14, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Internationalisation, Playboating, rivers, United States, Video, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesThis wave is easily my favorite spot in Maine. Madison is in central Maine on the Kennebec River and best flows are around 19k to 25k on the USGS gauge. https://waterdata.usgs.gov/me/nwis/uv?site_no=01047150 The wave here usually doesn’t come in much or comes in...
Work Week Dries by shanegroves | May 8, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Playboating, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesHaving beast whitewater surrounding you in all directions a rain storm away from running comes with its challenges. A normal workday with family responsibilities are then taken in stride between laps on class V and, recently, surfing the Dries. I went to bed Sunday...
A Year of Awesome Opportunities by Emily Jackson | May 6, 2017 | 2015 Zen, 2016 Rock Star Competition, Creeking, Family Zone, Playboating, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesA Year of Awesome Opportunities! Today I am writing from the Sequoia National Forest- we are parked at the take out of Brush Creek. A Creek I ran 12 years ago but not since! My husband Nick and I have two kids and two dogs packed into my Sprinter RV, and a trailer...
Freestyle Kayak Nationals on the Chattahoochee! by teamjk | Apr 28, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Event Coverage, Events, JK Little Shredders, Playboating, Video, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesOver Spring Break, my family and I headed down to the Chattahoochee in Columbus, Georgia for the National Freestyle Kayaking Championships held on an amazing wave known as Good Wave. Starting from Washington, D.C., the drive took us a total of about eleven hours,...
Kelloggshow Takes on Columbus at US Freestyle Kayaking Nationals by kelloggfamily | Apr 27, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Event Coverage, Events, Playboating, rivers, Whitewater, Wrap Ups, WW DisciplinesColumbus, GA’s whitewater feature is one of my favorite features in the country. I was super excited to hear that they were gonna hold the US Freestyle Kayaking National Championships there! It had been 2 years since we’d been on the wave so we arrived in Columbus 2...
New Zealand freestyle nationals and team trials by Courtney Kerin | Apr 25, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Event Coverage, Events, Playboating, rivers, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesThe New Zealand Freestyle Nationals hit it off the other weekend with a variety of paddlers from throughout New Zealand. Nestled away down a country back road is one of New Zealand’s best features, the Hawea Whitewater Park, located on what used to be a flat section...
There is a new freestyle park in NZ thats epic by Claire OHara | Apr 23, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Event Coverage, Events, Family Zone, Playboating, rivers, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesAfter the Hawea Academy finished we all jumped in cars and headed to Tekapo for 2 days of guaranteed water releases and non stop freestyle. Stopping on route for a quick hike up Mount Cooke. I had heard that a lot of work had been put into the course and that the...
The Pressure of Sitting in the Eddy by Maddie Kimmel | Apr 19, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Event Coverage, Events, Family Zone, Playboating, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesThe hardest part of a competition (for me at least) is not even surfing it’s sitting in the eddy waiting to compete. So many thoughts go through your head in that short period of time. Will I make all my tricks? What if I flush? Will I even make the wave at all?...
