Cost of New vs Used in Whitewater

by Jessica Yurtinus | Nov 30, 2019 | Antix, Rockstar 4.0, Whitewater Feature, Zen

How much does whitewater kayaking really cost? I like to kayak. Because of this, I spend quite a bit of time at the Reno Whitewater Park in the Spring and Summer. Our park is smack dab in the middle of downtown, so inevitably there are lots of people out enjoying the...

Millau rust scrub session

by Lane De Meulenaere | Nov 28, 2019 | Belgium, Internationalisation, Playboating, Rockstar 4.0

Belgium is not the greatest play to live (if you’re a whitewater kayaker), let’s be real. Belgium is amazing otherwise! Due to the flat nature of our little country, we’re short in rivers with a decent gradient to make it interesting. On rare...

Hay Diddle Diddle, Straight Down the Middle

by Mateo Williams | Nov 26, 2019 | Antix, Creeking, Whitewater

Last weekend I went to the Tallulah river in Georgia, it was about a 1-hour drive away from my house. I had run this river multiple times, the biggish rapid on the river is Oceana what is a 75-foot slide. The normal line is on the left side of the rapid. The slide...

What’s Stopping You?

by Hilde Schweitzer | Nov 25, 2019 | Whitewater Feature

I know I had it easy when I got started kayaking. The boats were fiberglass and home made. There was one model so the choice option was done for you upfront. The gear was pretty abysmal and it always leaked but that didn’t deter us in the least from having fun;...

8 years in Trondheim

by capucinethomaslepine | Nov 18, 2019 | 2014 Karma Unlimited, Norway, Whitewater Feature, Zen

I arrived in Trondheim in 2011 taking chance of European university exchanges program. I stayed because I could find there a balance between being part of the society and go kayaking on daily basis on myriads of beautiful rivers. Trondheim was fonded in 997 by the...

How to Rock the shuttle – Motorcycle Style

by Hannah Ray | Nov 12, 2019 | Trips, Whitewater Feature, Zen

So you want to go kayaking and you only want to take one vehicle. Your boating buddies are busy and the shuttle route is too far to walk. You’d rather not hitch-hike and prefer not to huff it on a bicycle. So how do you pull off a shuttle? With your motorcycle! Here’s...

How to Surf . . . Lake Tahoe

by Jessica Yurtinus | Nov 8, 2019 | Antix, Rockstar, RockStar 2019, Whitewater Instruction

West coast boating becomes a little scarce in the Fall. The snow pack has melted and without scheduled releases there isn’t much to kayak, so we start looking at other options. One of my favorite options is surfing Lake Tahoe. We have been chasing waves on Tahoe...

Making The Most Of Small Features

by Vincent Family | Nov 6, 2019 | Family Zone, Playboating, Whitewater

Fall often brings low water, which can feel like a bit of a let-down after an amazing spring and summer on the water.The flip side is that it gives you the time and space to slow things down and make the most of some of those small features that you’ve been ignoring...

Makinito Contest 2019

by Lane De Meulenaere | Nov 6, 2019 | Event Coverage, Events, France, Internationalisation

Every year in June, French and international paddlers gather in a little town Entressen in the south of France, about 30min from the ocean. What is so special about this little town the unknowing would ask? Well, it’s the home of one of the best freestyle holes around...

GORGE DU VERDON 

by nourianewman | Nov 4, 2019 | Video, Video, Whitewater, Whitewater Feature

It was already mid April and the spring wasn’t really kicking in. It was cold and dry and the Pyrenees didn’t really have any good whitewater other than Pau’s artificial slalom course. Lucky enough it had rained a little bit in the Cevennes area, so we stopped doing...

Deep Creek, Idaho

by Micah Kneidl | Oct 25, 2019 | Creeking, Internationalisation, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

Here in Southern Idaho, we don’t really have much in the way of creeks and runnable waterfalls. Most of our rivers are bigger and relatively high volume. I guess that’s why for a few weeks during the spring and fall, many of the locals drive out to the...

Legend on The Slave River

by JK Team | Oct 21, 2019 | Internationalisation, Poland, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

Back in a day’s fur trade was a huge thing. With increasing demand in fur in Europe the export demand kept growing – Northern Canada being a great source of it. To pass fur from the North people had to cross the Slave River. In winter despite its size it all freezes...