Ottawa Kayak School

Keeners at New River Academy Ripin’ it up

ogmform — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:51:57 +0000

Peace Out !

Heather Shepley — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:56:07 +0000

Hey everyone,
its Tamara , this is the last blog i’ll be writing while i’m here at keeners. I’d just like to thank everyone so much ! The coaches, the co-ordinators, Joe and to everyone that made keeners happen. I have said it before, it has been amazing!! I can’t belive its over ! Its been a really good 5 weeks , you know that when you finish it off with 4 stitches and a black eye, no pain no gain haha. I have learned more here than I ever thought I could, its been a wild and fun ride. I can’t wait till I get to go kayaking again ! And I’ll see you out on the river ! After I have healed up of course

Later ,
Tamara

bye bye ottawa. ..

lark — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:35:48 +0000

Hey it’s peter i have had a good time at keeners i cant beleve i am leaveing it went by so fast i am so sad bye everyone thankyou for reading my blogs and i hope you have a great long wekend bye…

Keeners on top at World’s

Brittany Nelson — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:44:01 +0000

There are about 250 competitors from 35 diferent countries at World’s. 21 of them are Keeners (Keeners, Graduates or Instructors). Of the 21 Keeners, 17 are moving to the quarter finals. It is a tremendous showing for our Keeners.

Off the water Keeners are still front and center. Last night Keener Graduate, Competitor and now instructor Joel Kowalski premiered his new movie, “Stakeout” in front of a revved up audience of 300. Keener Guest Instructor Rush Sturges warmed up the crowd with his lates film about Africa.

Signing out in Thun,

Joe Kowalski

keeners (last week)

billygoat — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:09:42 +0000

Hey its Sean checking in. This week was awesome this morning me and Gaylan made breakfast. it was pretty good i think BLTs should be for breakfast everyday. The water levels have been messed up! its been going down but its impossible to predict. this morning it was 1.5 and by lunch it was 2.5 very strange. It skipped right over baby face (so sad.) i really want to blunt more consistently and maybe flat water loop cartwheels in a hole for sure.
tuesday we went to the movies we saw GI joe it was cool.
on thursday were going to La chine it will be awsome. my stay has been awsome
and i want to thank every person from wt and keeners for making my stay unforgetable ( im leaving next week.)
thanks for reading see you later.
sean

Week 2 at Keenervill

cavelarry — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:48:42 +0000

This is Ian reporting in for my second blog as a keener. We kicked of this week great with a full day up at McCoys doing river running a playing on the great play at this level. Yesterday corner wave was prime and all the keeners had a great time surfing it; especially because with such a small group a keeners you never have to worry about not having enough time on the wave.
The breakfasts here have been great, this morning Sean and Galen made up blt’s, needless to say they were fantastic thanks guys. With the small group a different set of keeners gets to make breakfast every day, it ends up working out really well making it so we get a great HOT breakfast almost every day.
This week water is low so we may take a trip to an other river like the Gatineau or we may even trek in down to Montreal for Lachine because it has came in the last couple days, either way it’s something I’m really looking forward to.

Regards Ian

Todays Breakfast

Shane Kreoger — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:38:20 +0000

hi my name is Peter Semehen i am 14yrs old and i started kayaking last summer and Keeners has helped me alot .every morning we assign two Keeners to make breakfast. Today we had BLT’s and they were amazing . The water levels have been changing alot so the river has been changing it is great. BYE

First week at keeners

monty — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:29:03 +0000

hey its Galen i am finishing up my first week at keeners right now. this week i learned how to do flat water helix’s and i got one loop however i am still very inconsistent on them. i dident paddle for about two weeks before i came here and i am getting the feel back and gaining a lot of river running skills. The highlight of my week was on Friday when I ran dragons toung twice and the secconet time i ran it i got worked in the pourover and in the hole at the bottem and the two back straps of my helmit got ripped off. it was awsum!

BackDeck

Gary Wilson — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:24:37 +0000

Hey hey everyone, this week on the Ottawa river I’ve been super busy practicing new moves and working on the old ones. We have been running the main channel lately, and it has been awesome ! We have such great coaches so there is no doubt that we are and will still be learning so much. I’ve been working on my back deck rolls and i am getting them every time now ! I have also been sticking some kick flips which i am super happy about ! Everyone has been working hard on loops , and I’ve almost got mine but i still need some more practice .I can’t wait to get back on the river and work on my double pumps and bow stalls !

Peace,

Tamara

Loops and Boofs

mfishe — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:22:14 +0000

This week I freshened up on loops at Brain Dutsch and 7/8 Hole. Flatwater loops and Hole loops are going much better. Clay and Tino instructed us down the Main each day and I worked up the confidence to run the the boof and the Lorne. Wednesday and Thursday the level dropped and Corner Wave came in (right next to keener ville) and we ran some new lines down coloseum. The Meltdown line at coli is pretty in intimidating but fun. It involves at presision move over a finger like rockl narrower than a playboat. It is hard to line up for because there are few land marks above the boof and two small waves keep you from see the line until too late. Liam and I both missed our lines multiple times and fell into toast oven like slot hole and got pretty good down time. I am excited to get better at blunting on corner wave. In addition Tyler Fox substituted for tino and had alot of great things to stay about river safety, river running moves and freestyle move on flat water and in waves and holes. I am grateful that tyler came and taught today i really learned alot from him. I think the best thing about the keener program is the diversity of the paddling instruction. Specifically, the changing of instructors from week to week and the ability to learn from a different person each day.
cameron