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Tri-Cities Nolichucky Hometown Throwdown Event #4 Coverage & 2009 Series Wrap-up w/ Final Results
The fourth and final event in our Hometown Throwdown series was our largest and most fun event this season. The August event was held at Big Rock in conjunction with the Noli Spash event! The weather for the event started out with mostly cloudy skies and temps in the mid 70s. With the lower than [...]
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WK Hometown Throwdowns
Tri-Cities Nolichucky Hometown Throwdown Event #4 Coverage & 2009 Series Wrap-up w/ Final Results»The fourth and final event in our Hometown Throwdown series was our largest and most fun event this season. The August event was held at Big Rock in conjunction with the Noli Spash event! The weather for the event started out with mostly cloudy skies and temps in the mid 70s. With the lower than [...]
Boise Hometown Throwdown #6»Boise’s final Hometown Throwdown of the year was a great finish to the series. We even had a special guest appearance by Reno Jackson paddler Sage Donnelly. If you haven’t had the pleasure of meeting this little gal, you are missing out – she is personality-plus! (and a great little paddler!)
Seth Stoenner owned [...]
A lot has been happening in Western Canada since we last posted. We hosted a double header Throwdown/Survivor Slalom event in Chilliwack, BC and two youth camps in Alberta and the Northwest Territories.
Northern Youth Camp – Fort Smith, Northwest Territories
Kiddies Having Fun
Surfing it up at Playground Rapid on the Slave River
Chilliwack Cup #2
Event Results
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Confluence/Ohiopyle Hometown Throwdown #4»The Riversport Ramcat Slalom
On Sunday, August 23, almost 60 participants took part in the Riversport Ramcat Slalom, a traditional slalom race held in the Ramcat Rapid of the Middle Yough. The course featured 21 gates requiring racers to travel both up and downstream, back and forth across the river a number of times, with the [...]
Sunday August 23rd – Riviere St-Charles, Salaberry-De-Valleyfield, Quebec.
All summer we have been fortunate to be able to host a series of Freestyle events for World Kayak here in the Seaway Valley. Each event turned up new paddlers willing to give competitive kayaking a chance and show what they could do on the features of the [...]
The third event in our Hometown Throwdown series was once again some big boomin’ fun at Big Rock! The weather for the event was another perfect partly cloudy day with temps in the low 80s and a nice mild water temperature. The hole was much more retentive at this event with the lower river level [...]
Boise Hometown Throwdown #4»Boise’s 4th Throwdown was held under clear skies and a comfortable 80 degrees (usually hovering around 100 right now!) We had a ton of spectators at this event, which made it even more fun.
The crew from Cascade Raft showed up again and our slew of youth. Our friend and long time paddler Willard dedcided not [...]
CBC News
After shelving the project more than 20 years ago, industry is once again looking at hydro development on the Slave River on the N.W.T.- Alberta border. Click here to read the article.
Slave River Paddle Fest – hosted on the August long weekend this event was one of the best ever! Warm water, gentle play [...]
After negotiating the struggles that come with hosting our Hometown Throwdowns in the local state parks, our third Throwdown, a downriver mass start loop race at the famous Loop section of the Youghiogheny River, went off splendidly. We had fourteen racers and a number of safety boaters, insuring both an exciting and safe adventure down [...]
Hometown Throwdown #2 Arkansas»Alright Guys and Gals,
Sorry for the late post, but things have been crazy around Arkansas for the past couple of weeks. Record breaking rain in July means more kayaking!! The second Hometown Throwdown for Arkansas was an “8 Ball Boater X” style event. 12 Teams of two (open boats and kayaks) went head to head [...]
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2009 World Freestyle Championships
ICF Freestyle World Championship Semifinal Results»Congrats to the top 5 of the Jr. Women, Jr. Men & OC-1 who will advance onto Finals!
Women Semis start at 6:00PM. Men’s semis is under the lights tonight at 8:30PM. Live streaming video on http://worldkayakblogs.com/throwdown/2009-ifc-world-championships/
USA, USA, USA, Go USA!!!
Congrats to the top 10 of both the Women & Men K-1 who will advance onto tomorrow’s Semi Finals!
Complete Quarter Final Results:
Men K-1 - http://www.jacksonkayak.com/pdf/2009WorldsResultsQuartersK1M.pdf
Women K-1 – http://www.jacksonkayak.com/pdf/2009WorldsResultsQuarterK1W.pdf
GO USA!!!
The late day sprinkles threatened to come early this fine morning, but the sun won out as the Women took to the wave in Thun. Every heat list that was announced seemed like it was THE heat to beat. All of them seemed to be dotted with stars and veterans of freestyle. Some amazingly classic [...]
C1 and OC1 results – Prelims»Super heats today, with C1ers racking up big points in their single paddle’d craft. With the wave this flush, its a true test for the OC riders for sure, but points were to be had. Highlight was Vincent Dupont in a traditional canoe in OC1, no points, but hey, they don’t score style apparently.
C1 Results [...]
Today’s prelims was highlighted by one of the biggest fields ever to grace a freestyle World Championships. With 103 competitors from all corners of the globe, there was no end to the drama. Early heats saw names like BIlly Harris of Canada, Stephen Wright of the US making immediate marks with combined scores of 1500 [...]
WK Pro Event Coverage
NOC Shootout Event Coverage»
The 2009 2nd Annual NOC Shootout was simply the most amazing display of kayaking skill I have ever witnessed! No Joke… watching the final rides of the Men’s Pro K-1 class was astonishing and mesmerizing!!! If you were not there at the event you can not even begin to appreciate the words I am trying [...]
The 61st Annual FIBArK (First In Boating the Arkansas) Festival has already kicked off here in Salida, CO with live musics, movie premiers and feverish practicing from kayakers of all disciplines. Salida plays host this year to the USA Wildwater National Championships as well as a dozen other kayaking events.
Tomorrow starts the competition with Wildwater [...]
Event Coverage on WKTV will continue during the weekend of June 18-21 during the 61st Annual FIBArk River Festival. Until then…
TEVA Results and Photos»Men’s Freestyle Results
1. Stephen Wright
2. Nick Troutman
3. Dustin Urban
4. Casper VonKolmf
5. Andrew Holcombe
Women’s Freestyle Results
1. Emily Jackson
2. Tanya Faux
3. Ruth Gordon
4. Nicole Mansfield
5. Devon Barker
The preliminaries for the Pro Freestyle kicked off today around 1:00 PM with 44 competitors in the men class and 16 women. As with most preliminary competitions the majority of the rides were conservative where competitors were given 2 rides with their points from both combine to determine who moved on. The top 15 of [...]
