New Video. Adventures in Argentina. Part 1 of 4. by sethashworth | Nov 28, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Event Coverage, Events, Playboating, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Video, Whitewater, WW Disciplines Team paddler Seth Ashworth is in Argentina right now competing at Freestyle Kayak World Championships. He is sharing a four part (or possibly more) video series with us about the San Juan area, traveling, life-styling and everything else...
1 Simple Tip to improve your Whitewater kayaking (All Abilities) by sethashworth | Nov 10, 2017 | Instructional, Video, Whitewater Hey guys, here is a quick video of a simple tip which you might already know but certainly is a good one to keep in mind or something you may know about but haven’t been doing all the time. Make sure you hit up those comments if you liked or disliked...
Cuyahoga Falls Race 2017 – 3rd in Slalom by sethchapelle | Oct 29, 2017 | C1 Outfitting, Creeking, Event Coverage, Events, Karma, Karma Unlimited, rivers, Video, Whitewater, Wrap Ups, WW Disciplines2017 marked the second year of the Cuyahoga Falls race in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. That’s right, I said Ohio. I was very pleasantly surprised last year when I went to this race for its first year. I did not know that there was whitewater in Ohio until a couple...
Pigeon River Play Hole in an Artistic Light (Video). by sethchapelle | Aug 31, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Media, Playboating, rivers, Video, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesA few weeks ago my good friend Matt Sloan (Urban Forest Media) and I took a trip to the southeast to do some paddling. Matt is a talented videographer/editor and he had recently purchased a new camera that shoots really quality footage and super smooth slow mo. I was...
Finding meaning in kayaking by sethdow | Aug 15, 2017 | Creeking, Karma, Nirvana, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Whitewater, WW Disciplines// August 15, 2017 Finding meaning in kayaking The reasons why we kayak shift over time. I have met and talked to many people who have “retired” from kayaking, people for whom kayaking has lost meaning. I have also been known to threaten retirement, basically every...
2017 Upper Yough Race and How-to Seal Launch/Pogo Loop by sethchapelle | Aug 4, 2017 | 2014 Karma Unlimited, C1 Outfitting, Creeking, Event Coverage, Events, Uncategorized, Video, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesThe Upper Yough Race is an annual downriver race that occurs on the Yough River in Friendsville, MD. The upper Yough is a really fun class IV (IV+) section of whitewater that has scheduled dam releases all throughout the summer. People travel from all around the east...
US Nationals – Fun Times on the Chattahoochee! by sethchapelle | Jul 25, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, C1 Outfitting, Event Coverage, Events, Playboating, rivers, Whitewater, Wrap Ups, WW DisciplinesThis year the US Freestyle Kayak National Championships were held on the Chattahoochee River in downtown Columbus, GA. I had been hearing great things about the good play and warm water in Columbus for several years but the 12-hour drive had kept me from making the...
Truck Life Tour 10: More kayaking, more competitions, more FUN. by sethashworth | Jun 21, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Event Coverage, Events, Playboating, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Whitewater, Wrap Ups, WW DisciplinesThe Stakeout continued in full swing last week as we brushed off our hangovers from the UNLEASHED after party with some Mistassibi laps on Sunday. We sent it with a big crew many of whom were running the river for their first time. Mistassibi is a crucial...
Truck Life Tour 9: UNLEASHED stage 3 and 4. by sethashworth | Jun 15, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Creeking, Playboating, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesTruck Life Tour continues in Canada, and so does the UNLEASHED tour. We ended up having two full downtime days between stage 2 Boater-X and Stage 3. The extra layover day was due mainly to super high water across eastern Canada. Everywhere was too...
Truck Life Tour 8.5: UNLEASHED Boater-X by sethashworth | Jun 5, 2017 | 2015 Zen, Event Coverage, Events, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesSo last update dropped on Tuesday but I finished writing it on Monday evening right after we completed UNLEASHED Stage 2, a Boater-X run on the Rouge river. I really wanted to add it in to Tuesday’s update but the day was exhausting and I really couldn’t...
Truck Life Tour 8: Getting UNLEASHED. by sethashworth | Jun 1, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Events, Playboating, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Whitewater, Wrap Ups, WW DisciplinesThis last week has been a rapid whirlwind of kayaking in the final build up toward stage one of the UNLEASHED competition. After the water level came down a little we were able to get back onto the Ruins wave in Ottawa. Last year I had a real love...
Truck Life Tour 7: Facing giants and searching for new ones by sethashworth | May 29, 2017 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Playboating, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesThis week of truck Life Tour has been the most static of any week so far. But when I say static I mean we have slept in the same place all week, we have probably still clocked up another 500km of driving. Brooke and I have been based in the Ottawa valley...
