Bliss Stick Mystic Lightening ~ Training for Sickline

Playak News Flash - September 12, 2011
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Bliss Stick Mystic Lightening Team I-Canoe - In preparation for the Sick line extreme race I've been looking for a new boat something fast something shiny and something light!, fortunately I kept coming back to my trusty Bliss Stick Mystic which is now over 4 years old but sill love it, The rivers we've paddled or the good times we've had I ...

Training for Sickline Jackson Kayak - Well the summer has come and gone, like it or not it is already September. With my last freestyle event being the Garb Rodeo on the Ottawa last weekend, comes the end of the rodeo tour, though with the changing of the seasons comes the autumn race circuit. In the next two months we have several races coming up, including the Sickline, Gauley, Russell Fork, Green river, and Alsesseca races.

Slippery When Wet AVAILABLE online Shasta Boyz Productions - Sh#t has been hectic in the SBP world lately. After finishing a master copy of Slippery When Wet in late July, I was barley able to get DVDs August 4th before flying to the Outdoor Retailer show on August 5th. After the epic whirl wind of making some great connections and a wicked bender with the boyz, I rallied back to Mt. Shasta to start getting ready to move down to Santa Cruz for school.

The NRS Ninja PFD – US Freestyle Team Special Edition CKS Blog - Northwest River Supplies (NRS) has a reputation for making really good river gear. They've got a very diverse selection of products ranging from 18 foot Grand Canyon slaying rafts + f rames , to winter kayaking pogies and gloves .

Canoe Slalom World Championships 2011: Day 1 PeakUK - This year the prestigious titles of Canoe Slalom World Champions will be decided at the Bratislava slalom course, along with booking athletes/nations slots at the 2012 London Olympic Games. Myself and Pete have headed out to the event to showcase the very latest in innovative, fully customisable slalom gear, which is due for it's official trade release in a few weeks time at the Kanumesse trade show, Nuremburg. Germany.

Devils Extreme Race – Lipno adidas Sickline - The region around Lipno's dam is well known as a Czech holiday destination. It offers plenty of activities such as biking, swimming, hiking, canoeing and it is close to the Austrian border so you can go whitewater rafting or canoeing to the Inn River. But not so many people know that Lipno is the best Czech whitewater river.

GB qualify slalom boats for 2012 BBC - Britain's slalom canoeists qualify men's C2 and women's K1 boats for next year's Olympics at the 2011 World Championships in Slovakia, but miss out on medals in Saturday's finals.

Introduction to Cape Town living Life by Water - 2011, thus far, has been a year of exciting changes and new adventures. At the beginning of this year I moved to Cape Town to complete my studies and utilise the famous winter rainfall and big ocean swell, which provide some of the best kayaking South Africa has to offer. After one very promising wet-week in the beginning of winter, the sky cleared and the rivers dried up. I did, however, manage to get onto the water a number of times to paddle two of the Western Cape's premier rivers. These paddles also gave me the opportunity to paddle my new Fluid Detox on some hard lines.

Stephen's Garb Photos 2011 Jackson Kayak - We were lucky enough to have more than a month straight of epic Garburator levels this year on the Ottawa!  This is one of the best waves in the world, and it runs at low water.  Great eddy access and park and play potential makes it super popular as well.  Enjoy these photos of from the Summer.  These were all shot by Claire O'hara and me.  It was a great summer of paddling with friends from all over the world.

SUP Decent of Trouble Maker Rapid Werner - Dave Collins provides this video and report on a classic California whitewater run.

Skantars, Chourraut Top Results (...) Canoe Slalom World Championships - Bratislava, Slovakia – Order was restored today as the International Canoe Federation Canoe Slalom World Championships finally got under way with a revised and compressed schedule created in the wake of a two-day postponement due to high winds. There were few surprises in the Men's C2 and Women's K1 divisions as competitors balanced making the cut to semis with reserving energy for the next round.

Summer Paddling. Going Artificial… worldkayak blogs - So far this summer has been great! Although I've not been away like last year & there are no rivers or weirs running I have gone artificial. The new Olympic course at Lee Valley is now in full swing and is about an hours drive from my house. I've had several days there over the summer & a long weekends trip to Nottingham. As well as the usual flat water paddling at the pool sessions & work.

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