The experience of an athlete with the ICF Slalom World Cup 2016

Playak News Flash - October 1, 2016
The world's latest paddling headlines.

The experience of an athlete with the ICF Slalom World Cup 2016 Palm Blogs - We have rounded up the last ICF Slalom World Cup of the 2016 season. It has been another wicked journey chasing the concrete whitewater courses. It was a bit different compared to last year when everything was new and exciting! But I really enjoyed getting to know people better and try to focus more on delivering good training and racing. Ohiopyle Falls (PA) Festival Postponement to Oct 15 Am. Whitewater - Ohiopyle Falls (PA) Festival Update there is some significant rain forecasted for Thursday night and beyond. So much that the Corps of Engineers is predicting high flows on the Yough through the weekend. Mike Ranta celebrates birthday on final leg of historic canoe crossing of Canada Canoe Kayak - On a misty morning on New Brunswick's St. John River, Mike Ranta answers my phone call on speaker. It's Day 178 of his 4,750-mile solo canoe journey across Canada, and Ranta's voice is hushed. Confident McGregor prepares for Hansa Fish charge ICF - Eight-time World Champion Hank McGregor returns to this year's Hansa Fish River Canoe Marathon on 7 and 8 October brimming with confidence after his double gold medal haul at the recent Canoe Marathon World Championships in Germany. With ten days between his return to South Africa on Monday and the mouth-watering annual Eastern Cape assignment, McGregor is now fully focused on adjusting from flat water to river racing and readying himself for the event he had won six times previously. Kayak Fishing tournament experience - Grafham Water Palm Blogs - Grafham Reservoir is a bit of a holy grail for lure fishermen in the UK. When I heard that the WPC England Qualifier was going to have a kayak division and it would be at Grafham. I handed over the entry fee immediately. The event itself came around a bit quick for me in the end, I had to shoot back from Cornwall, unload the car, reload with two Hobie kayaks, fishing gear, food and camping gear, then have a quick sleep before heading off to pick Lars Lundberg up from Heathrow Airport on the way to the event. Top five places to work as a river guide this winter Rapid Magazine Blog - Turquoise water, tropical canyons, an international trip lined with world-renowned rivers—it's what whitewater dreams are made of. If you're like most raft guides, however, a vacation on the other side of the world probably isn't in the budget. So, try getting paid for it instead. When temps cool in North America, we recommend looking for work in these five gorgeous and balmy locales. A Gallery of Guests at the 2016 SUP Awards SUP Magazine - There's no shortage of beautiful people in our sport. So, as we do every year at SUP Awards presented by Tommy Bahama, last night we took the opportunity to dress them to the nines and send them down a glamorous red carpet to be photographed before standup paddling's gala event of the year. Italy U19 Women ready for WRC 2016 International Rafting Federation - Know about the Italy U19 Women's team as team member Sarah Walter tells us about their journey on how they came to participate in World Rafting Championships that would happen in UAE this year. A year ago they would have never thought they would participate in the WRC, now they are training well to give their best. It all started with them getting silver at Euro Rafting Championship in Tacen/ Slovenia, after which they went to Euro Cup and Italian Championship in Aosta and became prominent… Molokai Channel Crossing Training: OC1 vs. SUP Riding Bumps - Training for a solo channel crossing is close to 100% the same whether your vessel is a SUP, prone or OC-1. Overall workouts each week (Intervals, Long, tempo, recovery) as well training program periodization, strength training and nutrition all follow an extremely similar plan. The only real difference is the vessel. Southeast Rivers to white water paddleboard Hala - I have been fortunate enough to paddle several beautiful rivers this summer across the U.S. I have enjoyed the rapids on the rivers here in the southeast the most. I wanted to share my favorite rivers for those looking for a place to whitewater paddleboard traveling through the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina. Here are my Top 5 southeast rivers to whitewater paddleboard. Flexibility and Mobility in the offseason to help your paddle race training Riding Bumps - If you look around the boards, blogs, magazines and even our website there is talk about shoulder health and injury from SUP and prone paddling. The fact of the matter is that unless you have exceptional shoulder, spine, and hip mobility paddling can be deleterious to your musculoskeletal health. USA Raft Erwin, TN Vermont SUP - Over the past few years I've started paddling more & more. My main focus has been Stand-Up Paddleboards or SUPs. Starting out on flat water and soon migrating to moving water, rivers. It's opened up even more places to paddle and explore. 2016 SUP Awards Presented by Tommy Bahama Celebrates Standup Paddling SUP Magazine - It was another memorable night at the 2016 SUP Awards presented by Tommy Bahama, where an impressive array of the world's elite athletes, aficionados, philanthropists and filmmakers gathered under the stars at Doheny State Beach. Breast cancer awareness event Standup for the Cure Atlanta went by successfully Standup Journal - After five successful years, Standup for the Cure, alongside its national sponsor, Ambry Genetics, Hosted the inaugural Standup for the Cure, Atlanta to benefit Susan G. Komen Greater Atlanta. "Every one of our events has its' own character," stated Event Director Dan Van Dyck "our Atlanta Event may have been small in scale, but we managed to screen 35 participants for breast cancer and added to our continually growing "Ohana" (family). I feel blessed to be able to bring our unique event to communities across the nation." A SUP boarder's reason she purchased a Werner Trance SUP Paddle iSUPworld - I have a Werner kayak paddle that I absolutely love and I wanted to find a good Werner SUP paddle that I would enjoy using equally as much. I wanted a one-piece paddle that was not only lightweight but that will last me for many years to come.After some searching and testing, I decided on the Werner Trance.

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