Guess what. The sun was shinin’ again in Reno. Biiiiig surprise! After a well behaved evening of Reno frivolity (dinner at a cool Spanish place and blackjack with EJ) I was suprisingly well rested for the day. Day 3, the final day was boatercross. With the Truckee river set at a class II-III designation with lower […]
Ohhhh baby, sun up we were on #5 and Colin was trying to teach me how to loop… er… I see the move in my head, just got to transfer it from the head, to the arms, paddle and body. Not so good at the loop my friends, even though the kiddies from Reno were […]
Ok, Day 1 on the Truckee River in downtown Reno saw my first tour of the river from both a playboating and whitewater development stand point… this is an amazing class II river run with top of the line play spots… two standing out (#3 and #5), both are shallow holes with great retention. Both […]
Day minus one in Reno… well, Nevada… cause today was not tooo much about Reno. It seems the town of Reno is ready for James. Got here at, like, 1:30 am EST… after an epic day of travel, too much rain in Chicago made the metal birds go boing. Luckily Bruce (said with a nice […]
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With Chris Wing out due to his work schedule and such, looks like I’ve got a ball to pick up… covering the Reno Riuver Festival. Many of you may not have remembered my first foree into event coverage. I used to post as POLLO on Boatertalk and set up full coverage of the World’s (Ottawa, Australia, […]
The World Kayak Hometown Throwdowns are aimed at friendly sociable competition… fun for all. Simple format, points for everything, including a front surf, prizes by raffle, not scores and much more! We’re giving out free schwag and prizes from our event partners… Mion sandals, Smith Sunglasses, Red Bull drinks, Jackson schwag, T-shirts, hats … you […]
WK is happy to announce that The Cornwall Whitewater Club of Ontario/Quebec Seaway Valley has agreed to put on two Hometown Throwdowns in their region. We also welcome the Seaway Valley as a World Kayak region with Robert Zwanenburg coming aboard as Ambassador! In addition, we welcome the region of Jonquere, North of Quebec City, […]
As part of our new WK Event Coverage initiative, we welcome all those hosting festivals to send us a line! We invite you to set up a festival blogspot here at Worldkayakblogs.com and start posting up info. Festivals are key to our communities and also very important in the attraction of attention to our sport… […]
World Kayak is building a team aimed at covering the 2008 World Cup in Europe this coming summer. Our coverage will be extensive with complete results, articles of interest, photos and, of course, video. Our journalist team will be setting the events up with pre-event coverage, interviews, blogs and much more. During the event we […]
Chris Wing of H2O Dreams has graciously formed a partnership with World Kayak that will bring all of us full web coverage of many of North America’s biggest events. Touring with the pro paddling circuit will allow Chris to bring full coverage… text descriptions, interviews, articles of interest, results and much more will be […]
