Dog Days to Another Missed Green Race ~ How to Flat-Water loop

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Dog Days to Another Missed Green Race The Next Horizon Line - After Quebec, things really wound down around K-town as the dog days of summer kicked in. We had a few good days here and there (Juicy Crooked Fork, Thunderhead into Tremont), but in general it was Ocoee and mountain biking time. I even had some time to sneak a few good hiking trips in there.

Imagine if Red Bull Sponsored Kayaking Fat Paddler - The other day I was thinking about the awesome range of sports that Red Bull sponsors: Air Races, Formula 1, Motorcross, Sky Diving and practically every other extreme sport you can imagine. I thought to myself, wouldn't it be awesome for kayaking to have a sponsor like Red Bull who put so much into building [...]

Team Riverbug.me: Meine Hausbäche (my local creeks) PaddleBlogs - In Austria Bach roughly translates to brook, or creek. The Alps have numerous Bäche (Bach in plural form)… Some are bigger than others and some only run after rain or in spring or summer depending on whether they're glacier fed. For our first blog, I'd like to introduce some of the creeks near our house in Wildalpen, Austria. These are some of my 'Hausbäche'

Top New Zealand female paddler joins team DUEM duemstuff - Louise Jull just recently joined our international team of professional kayakers. Louise is a all-round paddler who spends most of the year on the international Slalom circuit. But in her free time, considering that she comes from New Zealand, she paddles top class rapids on a daily bassis.

New Freestyle Section in French Club Level 6 - ...I created a freestyle section in my club. I had to impose this idea since freestyle kayak isn't a discipline very extended and recognized in France. The main goal was to teach the basics of freestyle while having fun : slides, Eskimo rolls, front points, balance...

How to Flat-Water loop Jackson Kayak - There are many different ways that you can be taught how to flatwater loop. I find it easiest to think about learning the flatwater loop in 4 main steps. The double-pump to bowstall, the bounce, the throw, and the loop stroke. The first step is to learn the double pump. The double pump is a two stroke step where you take a forward stroke and then a back stroke while on edge.

Heaveny Post-Gauley Season: 5 Boat Wave is Back! Jackson Kayak - Or did it ever really leave?   The much anticipated 5-Boat World Kayak Rodeo was moved to Canyon Doors this year after locals discovered the perfectly – shaped medium size wave that forms below Koontz Flume on the Lower Gauley was gone.   Thankfully post Gauley Season levels sprung back up high with regional rains and Dane Jackson and Stephen Wright decided to go see for themselves … and ended up surfing the next several days straight.

2011: Post 54 – Remembering Newfoundland Kayakoholic - Today is Remembrance Day. I do not have a strong affiliation with the military but I have had some friends and family members who served for a time. I do take some time to try to think about people who died in long ago wars and those who have died in recent times.

Appleby Dominates the Field at Los Cabos Classic SUP Connect - Candice Appleby has crushed her competition in numerous events this year but this past weekend, at the Los Cabos Classic, she made a huge statement by beating out the elite male paddlers as well.

Back in Ecuador for the 2011/12 Season Small World Adventures - Everyone's stoked that we're back in Ecuador! Our friends from Aspen Whitewater Rafting came back down to Ecuador in late October to help us get the season started out right. This group of raft guides and kayakers comes down to Ecuador every fall to celebrate the end of another ...

Little Potlatch Dam Permit Withdrawn Am. Whitewater - Earlier today the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission accepted the surrender of a preliminary permit that could have led to a new hydropower project on Idaho's Little Potlatch Creek.  Brookfield Power held the preliminary permit for nearly two years, ...

Unbiased third party Element review Fluid Blog - I've been having a great time paddling the Element. It's a little weird,since I'm paddling an ocean surf kayak on river waves, but once I got used to it, I started to really enjoy it. The Element is fast, very stable on a wave (not while paddling downriver) and nice and light for areal move...

Orkney and the Himalayas in Dorset SW Sea Kayaking - Currently looking over my photos of the stunning Thuli Bheri river in Nepal. I'm doing a talk on our 2010 white water expedition tomorrow night, at the invitation of Isle of Portland Canoe Club . Heather is also talking, on the subject of our extended trip to the Orkney Isles ...

Report From Los Cabos Classic SUP Race Boardworks SUP - The 2nd Annual Los Cabos Classic had an increased in the amount of participants bringing in big names from the Stand Up Paddle world including Candice Appleby, Anthony Vela, Gillian Gibree, Annie Doyle, Fernando Stalla, Colin McPhillips and Brian Haag.

Steelcase Dragon Run 2011 - Biggest Yet surfski.info - This year's Steelcase Dragon Run, set to take place on 19 November in Hong Kong, will have the most competitive international field of surfski paddlers yet. The Dragon Run, now in its fifth year, is a 25km open ocean race from Clearwater Bay to Stanley Bay in Hong Kong, ...

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