Event Recap: Beaters’ Boating Banger

by katiejackson | May 3, 2018 | Event Coverage, Events, rivers, Whitewater

I’ve heard rumors of times long, long ago when there were competitions between the southeastern collegiate kayaking clubs… Times when college clubs would travel around on a “tour” between schools’ home runs for races and freestyle competitions. Today, the southeastern...

Cold and Frustrated: Stories from Stakeout. Episode 1: The Eyebrow Bet

by sethashworth | May 1, 2018 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Media, Playboating, rivers, Video, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

So this week, and for the next month David Silk and I are coming out with a weekly Video blog following our adventures through Stakeout. We want to show more than just the epic kayaking of this time of year but also the off river shenanigans, travel around Canada...

How to BEAT the weekend warrior!

by Mathieu Dumoulin | Apr 30, 2018 | Antix, Fitness, France, Instructional, Internationalisation, rivers, Whitewater, Whitewater Instruction

Last year I had big changes happening in my personal life. I went from full time kayaker based in France and traveling 8-10 months out of the year to getting married, and settle down in Colorado with my wife. Domesticated, stuck and assigned to a job, there was a lot...

SPB River Fest

by Tom Dolle | Apr 29, 2018 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Event Coverage, Events, France, Internationalisation, Whitewater

English Part: Last week-end, we had three days to enjoy Easter. Family time ?! Yes, it was for the french freestylers. From March 31st to April 2nd, a big part of the kayakers family had come together to compete at the French National Freestyle championship. This...

Bear Creek with a “Big Bang” 2018

by Kat and David Levitt | Apr 28, 2018 | Creeking, rivers, Video, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

Bear Creek and a Big Bang Go to the video below if you want to skip the story. On March 2nd, I finished work and headed to meet a group of young guns to paddle Bear creek. It was a beautiful day and the water level was a perfect minimum to run everything. The normal...

Nationals

by sagedonnelly | Apr 27, 2018 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Event Coverage, Events, Playboating, Team JK, Whitewater, Wrap Ups, WW Disciplines

Right after making Jr. and Senior USA slalom teams in Canoe and Kayak, I left North Carolina and drove the six hours down to Columbus, Georgia for freestyle national championships. I hadn’t been in my play boat since Worlds in December and I was really excited to get...

NFL Kick Off 2018

by Mike Shaw | Apr 26, 2018 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Internationalisation, Playboating, UK, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

Last Friday night was the NFL kickoff event! Now I’m fully aware we still have another five months before the actual NFL season kicks off and this is an article on kayaking and not an article about my love of an entirely different sport. So why am I talking about the...

‘Live like Maria NOC Shootout’

by nicktroutman | Apr 25, 2018 | 2016 Rock Star Competition, Canada, Event Coverage, Events, Internationalisation, MixMaster, rivers, Whitewater, WW Disciplines

This past weekend was the ‘Live like Maria NOC Shootout’. It was another incredible weekend at NOC and the Nantahala River. This year the event was held in memory of the late Maria Noakes, who was a mother, paddler, local hero, and friend to many people and paddlers...

How to Splat – Wheel a Kayak

by Clay Wright | Apr 24, 2018 | Internationalisation, MixMaster, rivers, United States, Whitewater

What’s more fun than squirting into a ”Splat”? Smashing the bow down and ‘splat-wheeling’ on across it! The big advantage of having both ends of your boat wafer-thin is that you can get vertical on both sides, and with that ability comes...

NoliFest Winning

by wildwildwes | Apr 23, 2018 | Event Coverage, Events, MixMaster, Whitewater, Wrap Ups

The 4th annual NoliFest 2018 was packed with more fun than ever before! River trip shuttles for all on the Gorge and Lower Nolichucky River, SUP racing, river attainments, SUP joisting, vendor fair, One Wheel endure race, fireworks, great bands and good food where...

Back Basics

by samantharuppelt | Apr 22, 2018 | Fitness, Instructional, Video, Whitewater, Whitewater Instruction

You know that moment when you hit a sweet boof… and then you land on a rock? What about that moment when you go to do a splat…. and then just plow your bow straight into a rock and jolt forward? (Oh that’s just me…) What abouttttttt when you go to load your boat on...

Soft Power Health’s Trip down the Nile

by Jessie Stone | Apr 21, 2018 | Internationalisation, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, United States, Whitewater

Friday March 16th is a cloudy, cool morning. The weather looked overcast, but nothing like the day before when 10 hours of nonstop rain pounded the Ugandan red clay landscape. I had a small river flowing right down to my banda and wasn’t sure I would make it...