Riversports in Knoxville (Ed McAllister) invited me to come to visit the paddlers of Knoxville next Friday(March 26th).    We'll be bringing the first Villain S  production boats there to try out too!  AWESOME!   Of course we'll have All-Stars, Funs, Heros too. We attempted to do this on January 29th, but the ...
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I am very proud of our website, that started off before there was a Jackson Kayak with my friend Jeff Bennett from Hawaii creating and maintaining it for the past 8 years.    Over the past few month, World Kayak's web team has created a new World Kayak Blogspot that will ...
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I have known Lluis for many years, and really got to know him best in 2001 as the organizer of the World Championships in Sort, Spain.   This Worlds was the benchmark by which future worlds would measure themselves against in terms of the organization, and how fun it was for ...
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I had my 46th birthday yesterday and was lucky to be home at Rock Island with my family.    I have a few traditions that have been going on for a while, such as strawberry shortcake for breakfast,  Emily buys me the ugliest shorts she can ...
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1993 was the only time a World Freestyle Kayak Championships was held in the USA.    Since then it was held in: Germany, Canada, New Zealand, Spain, Austria, Australia, Canada, and Switzerland.     Now, the international canoe federation is looking to the USA for good bids and if ...
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