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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Sorry about the delay in getting this up, but life has been interesting to say the least over the last week or so. So here are the brief results. I’ll have cmoprehensive results and standings after this weeks, Immersion Research Giant Slolam.
Results:
Overall:
1) Jesse Shimrock
2) Brian Homberg
3) Dustin Stough
4) Paige Teegarden
Top 2 by class:
K1 Expert
1) Jesse [...]
Yes this is another plug for the Friday Night Fun Series – Immersion Research Giant Slalom
July 20th
Adventuresports
Center International in
McHenry, MD So what is Giant Slalom? Its our attempt to spice up things and make slalom more accessible to more people. To that end, there are classes fop boats under 8′ 6″, plastic boats over that [...]
The second round of the Friday Night Fun Series was the Stonyboater Paddle Wax Boatercross. The race took a distictive local feel with all of the racers being “local” boaters. Comparatively, the Freestyle event had over half the contestants from outside the area.
Here are the results:
Here is the basics:
Overall
1) Jesse Shimrock
2) Brian Homberg
3) Dustin Stough
4) Paige [...]
The Yough Paddling Club would love it if you and your friends will join us for the Stoneyboater Paddle Wax Boatercross this Friday. Yes, in two days the second of seven ASCI Friday Night Fun Series gets underway with registration at 5:00, athletes meeting at 6:15, and racing beginning at 6:30.
There is a boat length [...]
What a weekend! Friday was the Friday Night Fun Series debut with the Wavesport Freestyle Rodeo. 19 Competitors and over 50 people watch saw a “causal event that ran professionaly” according to Scott Barnes’ post on Boatertalk.
Team Wavesport served as Celebrity judges, and fun was had by everyone.
Results:
K1 Mens Expert - Jesse Shimrock
K1 Mens Intermediate - [...]
I’ve been rushing around trying to get all the details covered for the first event and I forgot to even post about it. As you may know, I am a volunteer coordinator for the seven night, ASCI Priday Night Fun Series. It will include freestyle (Friday), Boatercross, and Giant Slalom.
The newly formed Yough Paddling Club decided [...]
In case you can’t tell, I’m pretty excited about this. It seems that ASCI, the DNR and the Upper Potomac Comission came to some kind of arrangement to secure the unscheduled summer Savage releases that were on the books for years.
Here is the link that confirms a 4 hour release on Sunday july 1, 2007 [...]
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