Team SKB was down two Team members yesterday, due to other sexy endeavors, but Scott & Taylor delivered a very stout performance to kick the competition off!  Here are the stats from the day:

Team Sexy Kayaking Beasts – 2/22/2009

2 Laps on Cheoah – JoAnnes to lake @ 563 feet
Lap 1:  Scott, Taylor
Lap 2:  Scott, Taylor

1 Lap on Cheoah – Bear Creek to lake @ 252 feet
Lap 3:  Scott, Taylor

Total for day = 1,378′

Check out how we stacked up against the rest of the competition by visiting the SGS Scoreboard.

Reports from Scott & Taylor indicate that the laps were clean, but they had to run the West Prong Line below Bear Creek Falls due to a tree down in the main line.

Here is a note from Scott of some of the fun from the day:

When Taylor and I ran Bear Creek falls on our first full lap riding the
bubble, I decided to try a new line at the falls which went very smoothly. 
I did the center “creek line” except instead of boofing that rock and
turning right, I started on the left of that rock like I was going to do the
big straight drop.  Then I peeled to the right behind that big rock and
boofed into the center line before falling off of the curtain.  Was quite
fun.  Evidently it caught some attention.  A guy asked me about it at the
takeout and now it was mentioned on boatertalk.  The first picture link is
of me doing it in the red Nomad.
 
http://www.boatertalk.com/forum/BoaterTalk/1618382
 
Just trying to keep it sexy.
 
Scott

Keep it sexy and stay tuned to this site for Team SKB updates in the SGS competition.

That’s right boys and girls… Team SKB is back and ready to keep it sexy in the 2009 Southeast Gradient Creek Competition!  Last year Team SKB logged over 20,000 feet last year in TVF and brought home the Young Lions Championship.  We’ve got our work cut out for us this year with the new event format sponsored by World Kayak.  We will be competing in the “Open Feet Seekers” division.  Our team has had to be altered a little bit due to our sexy busy lives and the new event format of only 4 team members.

Sadly, I must report that Stuart (Bulldog) & Matt (Stickless) will not be competing with us this year due to other obligations, but they will be on our SKB Support Team during the comp.  We look forward to paddling with them during the competition!

Our fearless leader and captain, Brian, is still recovering from his Shoulder Surgery, so he will not get to compete with us either   We are still keeping him as our honorary team captain and look forward to his always lively commentary throughout the competition…

Scott, Steve, & myself (Wesley) are the returning Beasts for this years comp.  We are also welcoming a new Team SKB member!

Drum roll please…

After a rigorous application process and weeding out all the un-sexy applicants; Team SKB proudly announces their newest team member:

Taylor Brandt from South Carolina!

Welcome to the Team Taylor.  Keep it Sexy!

Stay tuned for updates coming soon…