Liquidlogic Black Ops and Stomper 90 on the Little White, WA ~ The Legend

Playak News Flash - June 28, 2011
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Liquidlogic Black Ops and Stomper 90 on the Little White, WA Team LiquidLogic - Currently Brianne and I are in Hood River volunteering as the photographer for a First Descents camp located up at the Panorama Lodge. These are an amazingly inspirational group of people that drive me to continue to raise money and awareness for such an awesome program.

Rob Rojas Paddles 24 Hours Non-Stop SUP Connect - Rob Rojas will paddle for 24 hours straight to raise awareness about child sex slavery and funds to care for survivors and those vulnerable to exploitation through the Love146 "Tread on Trafficking" campaign.

Update (25.06): Click here for a recap of the recently ended Canoe Freestyle Worlds! ICF - The 2011 ICF Canoe Freestyle World Championships could be referred to as "Dane's Party"; the US teen, Dane Jackson, was the first and only person to ever compete in all four freestyle categories and took top honors in three of the four and one Bronze in the other.

The Legend 4Corners Riversports - With all the buzz about the infamous big sur wave coming in and staying above 20,000 cfs for the past few weeks I couldn't help but feel obligated to go. I was willing to go by myself after little response from my texting frenzy. Two nights before departure Anna Fisher said she could make it...

Teams Race Sam Sutton - This year we were excited to return to Italy to defend our title, about two weeks before the competition our team mate Johann Rozenburg dislocated his shoulder, which was a huge disappointment as he was having a great year. So with this unfortunate news we managed to rally a good Friend Brendan ...

Worlds: Finals Results – Dane's World! Jackson Kayak - Plattling, Germany – The 2011 International Canoe Federation Freestyle Kayak World Championships could be called Dane's party, for US teen Dane Jackson who not only was the first and only person to ever compete in all four freestyle disciplines but also took top honors in three of the four and one bronze in the other.

ICF Freestyle World Championships 2011 Martina Wegman - After the Teva Extreme Outdoor Games in Italy.. I drove with Teva Athlete Anna Hübner towards Germany. We slept at her parents' house and drove to Plattling the next day for the Freestyle World Championships 2011. When arriving in Plattling the weather was great and it was already busy.

My World Champs 2011 - Thanks Mike The Blonde Blogger - ... she said "you never know what is going to happen and what this is about. Don't place positive or negative judgment on the outcome. There could be something entirely different that comes that you never saw or expected".' These words have been in my head a lot this week. On Thursday 16th June, my first paddling mentor and dear family friend, Mike Dodd, lost his life in a motorbike accident in Tanzania. Mike ... will be sorely missed.

Winter Sam Roil - Bit of a dry spell for the old blog posts lately. Reasons for this are along the lines of no decent camera, lots of other people doing updates on the same thing (the Wainui) and plain laziness. *On a side note - There aren't any pictures in this post so if you're one of those people (who just look at the pictures).... you might be disappointed.

World Championships Gold Medal!!! Palm Blogs - So as you can probably guess by now Worlds for me had a pretty dream ending taking home the Gold Medal in Mens K1!!! Throughout the event i'd not really paddled at the level i knew i could, my problem i knew i was being too relaxed, not aggressive enough, finals i focused on pumping myself up as hard as i could and getting ready to have the fight of my life.

World Finals by the Numbers! Jackson Kayak - World Championship Finals by the numbers- Team USA- Finalists in every event: 8 Finals & 13 paddlers Dane x 4 ...

Germans win the big trick contest. worldkayak blogs - After the SUP event yesterday there was a big trick contest and all sorts of crazy fun.  The winning trip was from a team of Germans that managed to tie three Rockstars together and throw a big loop.  The best part was that the center boat was back wards for the full trick.  Here is a video thanks to Lee Hart.

Schedule of the rest of the Awesome gear you can win from Small World Adventures Small World Adventures - So far we are off to a great season of paddling!  After spending time in Colorado and Washington, we headed to California where we found very odd spring weather which foiled some of our plans for the "typical ...

Freestyle Kayak World Championship Attracts Potential Future Suitors Playak - #ICFplattling - The International Canoe Federation Freestyle Kayak World Championships is a time to showcase the sport and look toward its future. Early in the week, the ICF Executive Committee enjoyed catching the action at the freestyle competition during their two-day meeting. Future and potential World Championship organizers also came to town.

Liquidlogic Black Ops and Stomper 90 on the Little White, WA Ross Herr - Currently Brianne and I are in Hood River volunteering as the photographer for a First Descents camp located up at the Panorama Lodge. These are an amazingly inspirational group of people that drive me to continue to raise money and awareness for such an awesome program. If you don't know who they are, please click on my banner, find out, and donate to help change someone battling cancers life.

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