A hardy group of 9 boaters took to the water at ASCI to compete in the 2nd Wavesport Freestyle Rodeo held on Feature “A”. Despite a couple “surprise” changes to the feature, everyone had a great time. Full results should be posted on http://ascikingoftheriver.com. But in the meantime here are the Top 4 and the [...]
Tonight is the Wavesport Freestyle at the Adventuresports Center in McHenry MD on top of March Mountain.
For More specifics about the go to our website: http://ascikingoftheriver.com
We’ll see you up there tonight.
Registration at 5:00
Competion at 7:00
It will be under the lights if it takes that long.
Except of gate 9 I think I have every part of the course on film. SO like I did for our Friday Night Fun Series, here is the National’s course from start to final gate.
Start
From the start the first 4 gates were all off set down stream gate.
Gate 1 & 2
Gate 3
Gate 4 into Gate [...]
As part of ASCI’s support for the Yough Paddling Club, the first Wednesday night of every month during the season is Yough Paddling Club Night. What does this mean?
FREE TIME ON THE WATER FOR CLUB MEMBERS!!!!
Members of the club have exclusive use of the whitewater coures from 6-8 PM prior to the monthly club meeting [...]
The Friday Night Fun Series get back in the action this Friday with Wavesport Freestyle Rodeo on 8/10. After a 1 week hiatus, the Friday Night Fun Series at ASCI will host its 5th event the second Wavesport Freestyle. SO far the freestyle has been our most popular event and we hope that that trend [...]
Here are the Top three results by class. You can look at the full dedtailed results here:
http://www.adventuresportscenter.com/images/stories/Events/Slalom_Nationals/final%20results-%202007%20slalom%20nationals.pdf
K1
1) Scott Mann
2) Bett Heyl
3) Scott Parsons
K1-W
1)Heather Corrie
2) Zuzana Vahna
3)Ashley Nee
C-1
1)Ben Fraker
2) Erik Amason
3) Larimer
C-2
1)Austin Crain/Scott McClesky
2)Eichfield/Powell
3)Borst/Stazcko
Here is a link to the pictures I took at the event. A full write up of my experience and impressions from the [...]
A fair number of pictures from last Friday’s Riversport School of Paddling are now up on the Friday Fun Series website photo album along with the results. So go check it out. The water level in the pictures is the same level that will be used at U.S. Slalom Nationals in 2 days (Saturday).
Here a nice [...]
If you would like to have exclusive access to the ASCI Whitewater park one evening a month, as well as a bunch of other membership benefits, come to next Wednesday’s Yough Paddling Club Night at ASCI starting at 6:00. Join the club and paddle that evening - no raft traffic - and good times with local boaters [...]
Just a reminder for those of you who will be in the area this weekend - August 3-5 - US Slalom Nationals are being hosted at the Adventuresports Center on Saturday. This is the whitewater discipline that is part of the Olympics. Slalom combines speed and precision with racers negoitiating aproximately 24 gates over the [...]
I want to thank Jason and Sully of Stonyboater.com and Stonyboater Paddle Wax. They have been taking pictures of all of our events. This past Friday, Jason provided me with a CD of over 700 pictures from the first 3 events in the series.
The events were the Wavesport Freestyle Rodeo, Stonyboater Paddle Wax Boatercross, and the [...]
Here are the full results from last night’s event-
Riversport School of Paddling Boatercross
Kayak Class
1) Jesse Shimrock
2) Geoff Calhoun
3) Brian Homberg
4) Ben Ledewitz
5 (tie) Lee Railey
5 (tie) Matt Taylor
7) Paige Teegarden
2 registrants DNS
Ducky-cross
1) Matt Taylor
2) Jesse Shimrock
3) Lee Railley
4) Tom Beall
5) Paige Teegarden
After 4 events the Immersion Research King of the River standings are:
1) Paige Teegarden
2) [...]
I’ll do a full write up later for tonight’s Riversport Boatercross. But in the mean time here is the results from tonight’s Kayak class. Ducky class results will be in the full write up.
K1
1) Jesse Shimrock
2) Geoff Calhoun
3) Brian Homberg
I also was handed two CDs tonight with close to 1000 pictures from the first 3 [...]
From 5:30 - 7:00 at the ASCI “pond” the Yough Paddling Club (YPC) will be having rolling sessions. Paige Teegarden, YPC Board member, and certified Instructor, will be there to help people perfect their rolls.
The Upper Yough Race is this Saturday along with a Festival that takes place at the Friendsville Park at the Upper Takeout.
The Race is the highlight of the events but there as been a bunch of work put into creating a full community event.
All the info you need can be ound at the events website:
http://www.youghioghenyriver.org/Festival.htm
Of [...]
This is the second of three posts about little know creeks in the region. This is one in the drainage of the North Branch of the Potomac River. Difficult Run drops down into the Kiztmiller Section of the North Branch from the West Virginia side.
Difficult Run (WV) - Tributary of the North Branch of the [...]
What is the Immersion Research King of the River Competition?
The Immersion Research King of the River is the Friday Night Fun Series’ winner-take-all competition. There is a significant prize package that will go to only one winner. It will be awarded at the end of the series to the competitor who accumulates the most points in their class(es) [...]
Here is the link to the event photo album. You need to scroll down to the third event and all of the pictures are clickable to get a larger version of the picture.
http://ascikingoftheriver.com/Photo_Album.html
So here are a few of my favorite ones
This picture shows the kind of venue this site is in terms of picturesque views [...]
Event # 4 for the Friday Night Fun Series is the Riversport School of Paddling Boatercross. Its amazing to think the series is now over 1/2 way to completion. It seems like the first event was just last friday. Still, here we go again!
Info:
Riversport School of Paddling Boatercross
Location: Adventuresports Center International, Mchenry, MD
Time:
Registration begins at [...]
Well, the first ever slalom race at ASCI is in the books, and it was an unequivocal success!
A total of 15 racers racing in 6 classes took two runs per class down the 10 gate course. The ten gates were hung over a full length course creating a more open course with 2 upstreams, 2 [...]
I’m really excited about this one. Its been a struggle to get the logistics and format worked out with ASCI due to this being the first month of operations. They’ll be putting up wires for gates almost up until the event (me too when I get there) just to make sure it happens. SO due to [...]
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