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2010 USNWC / WorldKayak Pro-Am for First Descents
The 2010 USNWC / WorldKayak Pro-AM was held on Saturday and was the final event for us this year in Charlotte. The event went great providing an awesome opportunity for the weekend warrior boaters, the up and coming throwdown playas and raised money for First Descents all at the same time. The event raised $1,100 [...]
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WK Hometown Throwdowns
2010 USNWC / WorldKayak Pro-Am for First Descents»The 2010 USNWC / WorldKayak Pro-AM was held on Saturday and was the final event for us this year in Charlotte. The event went great providing an awesome opportunity for the weekend warrior boaters, the up and coming throwdown playas and raised money for First Descents all at the same time. The event raised $1,100 [...]
The midwest Freestyle Championships 2010»This past weekend I had the privilege to coach the Midwest Freestyle Championships for the third year in a row. The weekend starts off with two days of clinics on Thursday and Friday. It has been very gratifying as an instructor to watch a solid group of students come back for all three years and [...]
2010 Pigeon Hometown Throwdown Event Coverage»7/31/10
The morning was a lightly rainy, damp start. Registration was held at the Pigeon River Gorge put-in just down from the power house. We had a total of 14 racers for the first Annual Pigeon River Boater Cross race. With the “Run what you brung” Rule we had 13 short boats and one river runner. [...]
Local boaters from Fort Smith and the local paddling club combined efforts with Paddle Performance to host the second of four Throwdowns at the Playground Rapid of the Slave River. Hosted this past Friday evening, we had the advanced hole ride followed by a beginner surf off and run through the rapid. After [...]
Idaho Hometown Throwdown #6»We had a beautiful night for Idaho Throwdown #6 at Kelly’s Whitewater Park. The water is so warm now as it pores off the top of the dam about 1/2 mile upstream. We ran the event at feature #2 – top wave on the far side of the island. We had 12 show up and [...]
Slave Paddle Fest»We hosted our 1st of 4 Throwdowns this season in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories along side the 3rd annual Slave Paddle Fest. This event was not only a huge success in terms of its organization, but also with respect to the number of people and different user groups it brought out [...]
2010 USNWC / WORLDKAYAK Pro-Am Throwdown»Saturday August 28, 2010 starting at 12 noon at the United States National Whitewater Center (USNWC) in Charlotte, NC.
It’s all about fun and a good cause. Last year at the USNWC Whitewater Festival we hosted a Throwdown and a number of pros were on-site and decided to compete in the Throwdown, which turned out to [...]
On June 19th Purple Hayes School of Kayaking hosted the second of three World Kayak Throwdowns that will be held on the Chilliwack River in 2010. The turn out again was was fantastic. Results and photos are below. Enjoy!
Good Clean Fun was had by everyone
I hope to see everyone at [...]
The third event in the 2010 Tri-Cities Hometown Throwdown series was BIG BOOMING FUN! We had 28 competitors join in for some great freestyle competition on the NOC Wave. Due to the low river level on the Nolichucky, we had to make a last minute venue change to a feature that had a descent river [...]
Keep Throwing it Down at the USNWC»The heat was turned up for this month’s throwdown even higher than the last one. Even though the temperatures neared the 100’s all the competitors really brought it. Spin to win was the key to winning this time along with being able to link some cartwheels. As the summer progresses it is getting more and [...]
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2009 World Freestyle Championships
US Team trials final results – your new US TEAM!»- Text by Lee Hart of BrandAmp –
Missoula, MT – The future of freestyle kayaking looks bright if results from the US National Freestyle Kayak Team Trials are an indicator. Kayaking’s version of the ratpack, teens Jason Craig, Dane Jackson begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting, Jordan Poffenberger and Lauren Burress all turned in impressive [...]
Crowds surge, stakes rise as US Freestyle Kayak Team trials moves toward finals
Missoula, MT – It was a day of high anxiety as competitors battled on Brennan’s Wave on the Clark Fork River to try to make the final rounds of the US National Freestyle Kayak Team Trials. At the end of the day, a [...]
RESULTS DAY 1
OC1
Dane Jackson – 105 points
Jordan Poffenberger – 80 points
Brad McMillian – 45 points
Jeremy Laucks – 35 points
Eli Helbert – 25 points
Jeff Campbell – 10 points – – – CUT LINE
Jake Ament – 0 points
Women’s K1
Emily Jackson – 600 points
Devon Barker – 470 points
Jessie Stone – 460 points
Erin Clancey – 335 points
Haley Mills – [...]
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!!!
WK Pro Event Coverage
Canadian Freestyle Team Trials on the Kananaskis River»When: August 23rd and 24th 2010
Where: Point Break on the Kananaskis River
Hosted by Aquabatics.
48 Paddlers from accross the country turned up at the Canoe Meadows Campground to register and make their bid for a position on the Canadian Freestyle Team.
They came from BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and The Yukon!
Monday August 23rd 2010:
Monday [...]
Big Boomin’ Fun was not in short supply at the Nantahala Gorge this past weekend (8-14-2010)!! Several paddling clubs from around the southeast region came together at the Nantahala River for some very fun times and friendly competition. It was awesome to see so many paddlers from around our region gathered together to enjoy a day [...]
US Team trials final results – your new US TEAM!»- Text by Lee Hart of BrandAmp –
Missoula, MT – The future of freestyle kayaking looks bright if results from the US National Freestyle Kayak Team Trials are an indicator. Kayaking’s version of the ratpack, teens Jason Craig, Dane Jackson begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting, Jordan Poffenberger and Lauren Burress all turned in impressive [...]
Crowds surge, stakes rise as US Freestyle Kayak Team trials moves toward finals
Missoula, MT – It was a day of high anxiety as competitors battled on Brennan’s Wave on the Clark Fork River to try to make the final rounds of the US National Freestyle Kayak Team Trials. At the end of the day, a [...]
RESULTS DAY 1
OC1
Dane Jackson – 105 points
Jordan Poffenberger – 80 points
Brad McMillian – 45 points
Jeremy Laucks – 35 points
Eli Helbert – 25 points
Jeff Campbell – 10 points – – – CUT LINE
Jake Ament – 0 points
Women’s K1
Emily Jackson – 600 points
Devon Barker – 470 points
Jessie Stone – 460 points
Erin Clancey – 335 points
Haley Mills – [...]
