A couple weeks ago now, ASCI hosted Freestyle Nationals. The event has recieved excellent reviews from everywhere I’ve seen write ups of the event. I was only able to get up there for a couple hours during the middle of the day. There was a good size crowd of at least 500 people and a [...]
It took a little time but here is a link to a gallery with 370 pictures from the August 10 Wavesport Freestyle held at ASCI. The event was held at Feature”A” on the ASCI course. It was the 5th event of the Friday Night Fun Series.
Wavesport Freestyle #2
Enjoy the pictures
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The 90 degree weather today made me think about the cooler weather of winter and creeking. So I figured I do the first of three creek posts. Here is info on Laural Run south of Oakland MD
Laurel Run
Laurel Run - FromPotomac
State
Forest to N. Branch of the
Potomac below Rattlesnake
1.6 miles 360 feet of drop
7 major [...]
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 - [...]
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