Another Gauley festival has come and gone and WK has added two new events to the weekend. This year we added a rolling Hometown Throwdown on the Lower Gauley. Competitors took rides at both Canyon Doors hole as well as the big wave at Lower Mash. Everyone got three rides at Canyon Doors and two [...]
Thun, Switzerland – Whether or not the Swiss national team puts any members on the podium at the end of this week’s International Canoe Federation Freestyle World Championships, under way now through Sept. 6, they hope to win an even more important campaign.
The eight-member team agrees freestyle kayaking, the newest of competitive paddlesports disciplines, isn’t [...]
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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 [...]
The July throwdown was a huge event at the USNWC. Kayakers from all over the area (from Tennessee to Greensboro) where drawn to the big action this July. The JAW (Jackson Action Wagon) with World Kayak Tri Cities Ambassador Wes Bradley was on hand for demos including the new 2010 Star and All Star.
The K1-A [...]
Another great day in Southern Alberta. The second World Kayak Throwdown event in Western Canada was held at the Boulder Run on the Oldman River near Pincher Creek.
Supported by High Level Canoes and Kayaks, I spent the day paddling the Highwood River near Longview, Alberta with a few of their staff – Cooper Isaac and [...]
World Kayak Throwdown #3 – Thursday July 2 at 7:00 pm
Boulder Run on the Oldman River, Lundbreck BC
Paddling Ability – all levels beginner to advanced
River Location – waves/hole; river access; big eddies
The day started off with the Slalom Survivor race on the Wilderness Channel at the USNWC, which provided a great course that included a ferry across a drop, a basketball shootout, some back paddling, playing in a whirlpool eddy and the battle for the pink flamingo.
Racers started in the eddy above Entrance Exam rapid [...]
Another awesome weekend on the Chilliwack River! With the second of three World Kayak Throwdowns, this Sunday afternoon was the inaugrual Chilliwack Cup. The afternoon began with a river run for those interested and was capped by the first of two Chilliwack Cup events hosted at the Pointa Vista Wave.
What are the FUNdamentals behind these World Kayak Throwdowns? It [...]
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The Chilliwack Cup
This is the second of three freestyle events to be held on the Chilliwack River at Pointa Vista. A wave/hole feature that is challenging enough for advanced boaters and super fun for beginners; come check us out this Sunday at 3 PM.
Survivor Slalom #2 – The Rundle [...]
Friday, June 5th was the scene of our region’s second Hometown Throwdown, the Slippery Rock Giant Slalom. Building upon the downriver mile race that used to exist in years past between McConnell’s Mill and Eckert Bridge on Slippery Rock Creek, this year as the race was revived from history, a new twist was added. In [...]
I just checked Boatertalk and I believe the lack of comments deems it a success, The one comment of the nice video was very nice as well. We kicked of the official launch of World Kayak TV today during the preliminary round of the US Team Trials.
World Kayak brought in a total of 8300 viewers [...]
Thursday evening was the first Survivor Slalom of the season. Hosted at Deerfoot Meadows in Calgary this proved to be the beginnings of a recreational slalom paddling group that is keen to use this paddling discipline as a means to improving skill. A short clinic prior to each paddler completing two timed runs down the [...]
We had so much fun last year at the Echo Hollow Pool we’re doing it again…
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see you at the pool!
The second Hometown Throwdown was again held at the hole known as second drop at the USNWC (United States National Whitewater Center, www.usnwc.org). The ladies started us off this time with a two new competitors Throwing it down for the first time. The crowd started to gather, something about girls in boats always draws a crowd. [...]
An awesome weekend! With the Vancouver Kayak Club Whitewater Festival, prime river levels, decent weather and good friends we saw a turnout from BC, Alberta, Ontario, Oregon and other far off places. Guided river runs were available to all levels of paddlers and it was really awesome to see a new group of beginners off [...]
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Working along with the USNWC we have gotton the Throwdowns on the Charlottes Got A Lot Website and on the city event calendar, now we gotta bring it as hopefully we will have a huge crowd watching, learning and having fun with us in our funny little boats.
Organizing events is hard. Producing a first year festival (and actually getting people to attend) is even harder. Dartmouth’s Ledyard Canoe Club came through with a truly worthy addition to the northeast paddling scene. The first ever Ledyard River Festival was definitely worth the trip for all those who came to enjoy the festivities.
If someone [...]
The First Annual Ledyard River Festival was a great success with over 200 people participating at the festival this past weekend. The Wells River Rumble, formerly organized by Jolyon Rivoir-Pruszinski, now run by Dartmouth College’s Ledyard Canoe Club, saw the highest number of racers ever as 30 competitors paddled in the mass-start and stage races [...]
Hometown Throwdown #1 – Stonycreek Rendezvous 4/25/09
The inaugural event for the Confluence/Ohiopyle region’s Hometown Throwdown series was an astounding success, with boaters competing across two separate events.
The first of the events was a boatercross race held Saturday morning at the showers rapid on the Stonycreek Canyon. This event included twenty competitors spread across the advanced, intermediate [...]
I was out at NOC last week meeting with the event organizers and recruiting photographers for the event as well as catching up with old friends. I had the chance to sit own with Daniel Dutton the event organizer and ask him a few questions. For full event details click here. I [...]
Temperatures hovered in the mid 90’s with high humidity in classic D.C. fashion. However, the mid-atlantic region wasn’t the only thing bringing the heat as Jason Beakes, Jeff Calhoun and Danny Stock, local residents, scorched the course during the 2008 Potomac Festival and Great Falls Race.
Water levels sprung up from rains earlier this week bringing [...]
Hey Everyone – just to let you know we are rescheduling the June 19th Boise Hometown Throwdown to Thursday September 11th at 5:30pm. The Gutter is currently de-watered for maintenance and looks to be that way until early next week.
New schedule now looks like this:
#3 July 17th
#4 August 21st
#5 September 11th
So have a great [...]
Colorado has the unique ability to astonish you around every bend, unless of course you don’t like nature, the outdoors or people who are legitimately happy with their dispositions. So if any of that does not apply to you, then I am really confused as to why you are even reading this write up or [...]
The 2nd Richmond Hometown Throw down was a boatercross race at pipeline rapid. 10 competitors competed, navigating their way down pipeline rapid and manuevering through 4 gates. We had pretty much a hodge podge of boats so the class where pretty open. Good times.
Results:
Heat 1: 1st – Josh Evans (playboat) Dagger Rx, 2nd – Brad Polack [...]
There are about 120 athletes who qualified to compete over the
weekend. There are so many things being determined here by this race that
everyone truly has something to look forward to. The USA and Canadian
athletes are competing first, for a chance to make their respective Olympic
teams. Since only ONE athlete [...]
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