This past Saturday (5-3-08) the entire SKB Team joined forces once again to fire up some TVF laps @ the USNWC.  Seeing how we only would get 21 TVF per each lap our team strategist, Stuart Everett, came up with the brilliant ideal of combining our sexiness and power into Topo Duos for the laps!  It was a ton of fun!!

Here were our official lap stats for the day:

Laps 1-5: Steve & Scott in Topo Duo

Laps 6-10: Stuart & Wesley in Topo Duo

Laps 11-16: Matt & Brian in Topo Duo

Laps 17-21: Steve & Scott in creek boats

Laps 22-26: Stuart & Wesley in Topo Duo

Laps 27-31: Matt & Brian in creek boats

Laps 32-35: Steve & Scott in creek boats

Laps 36-41: Stuart & Wesley in Topo Duo

Laps 42-46: Matt & Brian in creek boats

Laps 47-51: Steve & Scott in Topo Duo

Lap 52: Brian & Scott in creek boats

52 laps x 21′ per lap = 1,092 TVF for the day!

Notable highlights:

• Scott & Steve, on there first set of laps (1-5), had a minor incident that required them to exit their boat in an upside down underwater matter.  Do not mistake this for a swim!  The great Leland Davis says, “Swims out of a topo don’t count…”  Since we know Hollywood is always keeping it sexy, Scott must have missed a brace and caused them to flip over above ‘M’ wave in the Big Water Channel.  As always, Hollywood was trying to keep it sexy and do an off-side roll to get Scott back upright.  Well Chief was just trying to keep it pro and roll on his on-side.  Needless to say both of their efforts working against each other!  Scott decides to bail and Hollywood not knowing the fate of Scott attempts to roll again.  He discovers that his boat is quickly filling with water and he is not going anywhere, but ejecting from his cockpit.  They did manage to rescue themselves and their gear in a timely manner and get moving again.
• Stuart and Wesley were the first and only SKB Team members to fire up the Competition Channel.  They completed 4 laps with a combined total of 4 successful combat rolls in the Comp. Channel (2 @ Kodak Wave & 2 @ Big Drop).
• Stuart and Wesley also did a really cool typewriter move (thanks to some fancy paddling from Stuart) across the left side of Shutdown Hole to keep from running over another kayaker who was getting worked in the hole from an unintentional surf.
• Matt & Brian were the only two SKB’s to have a dry hair day in the Topo Duos.
• Brian fired up his PFD of the Comp. Channel with success!

Overall it was a great day for the SKB Team!  We have 8 official days logged for TVF now and all we can do is replace days now.

SKB Team TVF Competition Stats. to date:

Day 1 -Wilson Creek:  3,850 feet

Day 2 - Watauga:  1,012 feet

Day 3 - Little:  3,200 feet

Day 4 - Wilson:  5,500 feet

Day 5 - Tellico:  3,380 feet

Day 6 - LBC & Greenbrier:  874 feet

Day 7 - Tallulah:  429 feet

Day 8 - USNWC:  1,092 feet

Total = 19,337 TVF for the East Coast Arena

We only need to replace our Tallulah day with a 1,092 TVF day on anything, but Wilson Creek to break the 20,000 TVF Goal for our team.  This coming weekend is the final weekend of the comp, so we have to do what we can to reach the goal.  Wish us luck and pray for rain!

Keep it sexy & pro in all you do!

That’s right boys and girls… after taking off several weeks of serious competition, due to the lack of rain, PFD’s down Tallulah, and team spirit, the Beasts are back into action to finish strong!  The team is planning on bombing the USNWC in TopoDuos for the hugest lapfest the park has ever seen in one day!  Stay tuned for a trip report, but in the mean time the photo below should give you a good ideal of what we are up against…

If we obtain this goal @ the USNWC we will break 20,000 TVF for the competition!  Wish us luck and keep it sexy!

Wesley R. Bradley - SKB Team Paddler 

Check out this article from the Chattanooga Times Free Press:

http://timesfreepress.com/news/2008/mar/22/total-vertical-feet-competition-nears-halfway-poin/?local

Keep it Sexy!

Our fearless leader, Brian Pickett - El Capitain, has just sent down this press release to our team:

 “I have now picked our official Team SKB slogan…

 ”One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bonafide stupidity, there ain’t nothing that can beat teamwork.“  - Edward Abbey

-b”

This statement holds a lot of truth for our team, but we are having fun and staying safe.  That’s what matters most to us!  We hope to see you on the river!

Wesley R. Bradley - SKB Team Paddler

Make sure you check out our two new updated pages on our site:

Our Team - http://worldkayakblogs.com/sexykayakingbeasts/about/ 

SKB Team Shop - http://worldkayakblogs.com/sexykayakingbeasts/team-skb-shop/

Thanks for checking out our site.  Stay tuned for updates throughout our competition…

I hopes of another big TVF weekend… here’s to my homies!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhSc8qVMjKM

Peace out!

Wesley R. Bradley - TVF SKB Team Paddler

Check it out:

That’s right boys and girls…  The Sexy Kayaking Beasts came out this weekend in full force to dominate the competition!!!  We completed 14 Laps on Wilson Creek to put us in 1st place with a total one day total of 3,388 TVF.

Check out the official standings on Boater talk with this link: http://boatertalk.com/TVF

Check out our lap Stats. with this link: http://www.boatertalk.com/forum/TVF/1442024

For photos and and a full trip report check out Wesley’s Trip Report with this link: http://worldkayakblogs.com/wildwildwes/2008/02/26/skb-elfn-on-wilson-creek/

Stay tuned for more SKB domination of TVF!!!

Well this past weekend was a total bust for Team SKB at racking up any TVF.  The rain did not work out like we had hoped and not one stream was at a good runnable level that we had planned on lapping.  Stuart and I did meet up for some scouting of a local stream that we thought might be a promising secret weapon for our TVF Plans… Evil laugh - “Woo-HA-HA-HA”!  Stuart and I were accompanied by our Land Manger (Juli Blue) and the Everett Support crew (Tonya, Josh, Abby, & Caleb).

Due to team strategy,  the name and location of the stream will not be given to protect our secret weapon… Evil laugh again - “Woo-HA-HA-HA”!!  We originally thought we had found a run that would get us approx. 350′ of total TVF in less than a two mile run that was all roadside.  It turned out that the upper mile was on a logging road that was gated and no unauthorized vehicles could use the road.  But the day was not a total loss… I turns out that the bottom mile of the run is all road side and will get us somewhere around 230-240′ of TVF per lap.  If we were to get 24 laps on it in one day, that would give us a vertical mile (Which Stuart and I thought was completely with-in our capabilities)!

The run overall is tight with a few strainers and features that will need to be scouted if we decide to lap it.  The stream would also need about 12″ more of flow to be runnable.  Overall, it looked like it would be a really fun continuous run!  I just wish we could somehow work out the logistics for the upper mile.

The afternoon was a fun scout and hike with each other.  Below are a few photos I took during our Scouting Mission.  Enjoy:

Wesley R. Bradley - SKB Team Paddler 

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Peace out!

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