Ahhhh its good to be home. I’ve been home for a few days now and
hanging out with my normal crowd doing normal things. Fergus and Mike
and I go to work, jump on the trampoline and find other entertaining
things to do. But yesterday we decided that it was the perfect time for
us to run a drop [...]
Hey Everyone!
I hope you all have been getting outside and enjoying the great weather. I do realize that since we are spread out all over the place you may have had some diffrent weather but I’m sure you had a few good days in there somewhere.
Our Video 1 class has been working on an instructional [...]
Hey Everyone!
We are about a week out of the National Freestyle Championships and everything is going great! Our video class compiled our footage from the weekend and edited this segment to the school video. This includes whitewater kayaking by almost all the New River Academy and some Alumni. Hope you guys enjoy it!
Paddle Hard,
Tino
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The new photo project was to take a closer look at things, and enter the macro side of photography. After walking around for a while I chose to shoot the paddles scattered around the trailer. All of the paddles had very cool patterns and lines through out them. With the typical paddle shot being the [...]
We started out the school year on the Ottawa river in Canada, a large volume river with many playspots scattered about. The majority of our time was spent at two places, Garberator and McCoy's rapids. 'Garb' was a huge wave with a nice foampile on top, great for throwing any wave trick in the book. [...]
The World Kayak initiative would like to announce the recent creation of a new blog Worldkayakblogs.com. This is a first post on this blog’s behalf.
I found this piece of metal sticking out of the waters of the Ottawa River. The water has calm waves flowing through it with a grass bed sitting underneath the water. The stick breaks this tranquility, and is standing in solitude. It was shot at an f-stop of 3.5 with a shutter speed of 1/400th [...]
When traveling to the Ottawa river many people have dreams of flying high and hucknig huge on Garberator, clean spinnning endlessly on corner wave, or bravely punching through Phil's Hole. However, tucked away in a corner off to the side in McCoy's Rapid is a ramp.
Tino Specht prepares for takeoff. Photo by Sam Fulbright (c)
Anything [...]
Sam Fulbright is a senior leader at New River Academy, and is in his second year traveling with the program. The folks at NOC
brought Sam up in kayaking, and really instilled a passion in him for kayaking,
particularly freestyle kayaking, and he has been paddling non stop since. Lately a big passion of Sam's has been [...]
I'm Daniel Stewart, a student leader at New River Academy and whitewater kayak instructor for the US National Whitewater Center. This year I will be travelling with New River Academy and documenting our adventures as we travel the world in places such as Canada, China, Chile, and the U.S. I was also lucky [...]
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