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Katrina Van Wijk heads up a two week paddling journey for water warrior teens.

Okay...after a summer of playboating, it's time to come clean on the new Jitsu playboat from Dagger, which will have you yelling “Wasaaaaaw!” like a crazed martial artist...

Fresh from a win at the National Rafting Championships on the Arkansas River’s Royal Gorge, Vail, Colo.’s Team 8 Ball is looking to put teams from 40 other countries behind the eight ball at November’s World Rafting Championships in New Zealand.

If you’re going to get flooded out of your house, it helps if you’re as familiar with water as three-time World Cup Slalom Champion Scott Shipley is...

For the host Czech Republic, it was solid results all around at the ICF World Slalom Championships in Prague, as Vavrinec Hradilek and Jiri Prskavec (CZE) clinched Gold and Silver, respectively, in the Men's K1 finals on the freshly flood-recovered Vltava River.

Practice up your Roshambo. Yep, it's Gauley Fest season, American Whitewater’s biggest fundraiser, held every third weekend in September. This year's even will be held Sept. 17-19 on West Virginia’s Gauley River, where, if you're lucky, you can beat the grandmaster Woody Callaway of Liquidlogic Kayaks at his own game of Rock, Paper. Scissors...

Whitewater Hall of Fame award presentation will also take place at PADDLEexpo, now the world's leading paddlesports-only tradeshow, in its 11th year.

So it’s not the US Open or World Cup soccer finals. But it is the Superbowl of slalom, which heads to Prague, Czech Republic, Sept. 12-15, just months after a record flood where the world’s best slalom paddlers will battle it out in the World Championships...

For today’s top freestyle kayakers, the reign of Dane is proving to be a pain. Dane Jackson wrapped up his first-ever Men’s Kayak World Freestyle Championships gold medal at the Nantahala Outdoor Center this weekend, with a blistering, high-flying, high-scoring performance leaving other competitors in his wake. For the women, Britain’s Claire O’Hara proved equally domineering, securing the title for the second time running…

New scoring technology developed by NOC brings more spectator appeal to freestyle kayaking.

What's better than a canoe you can carry on your back? A strong, responsive, quiet, stable, lightweight and reliable canoe you can carry on your back. Ally's seven folding canoe models all fit this bill with the versatility to power through some serious whitewater or take your family on a flatwater cruise.

The Wero Project whitewater stadium in Auckland, New Zealand will be created by Colorado’s Whitewater Parks International, slated for completion by 2015.

Spring 2014 will expand Sperry's performance water-shoe product line to it's largest offering yet.

Who’s it going to be this time around? Yep, it’s freestyle kayaking’s biggest stage in two years again, with the 2013 Freestyle Kayaking World Championships coming to Bryson City, N.C.’s NOC Sept. 2-8, drawing paddlers from around the globe. The question is, will the Brits prevail again, with 2011 World Champs James Bebbington and Clair O’Hara able to retain their coveted kayaking crowns?

Camping and canoe enthusiast Kevin Callan’s latest calling is cooking. That’s right. You can now learn some of his tricks of the canoeing culinary trade in his latest offering, The New Trailside Cookbook: 100 Delicious Recipes for the Camp Chef written in conjunction with dietitian Margaret Howard…

Want to talk shop and learn from the whitewater industry’s top paddlers, retailers and instructors? The dates and location have been set for the 2013 National Whitewater Symposium, where you can hob-knob, brush elbows, paddle and drink beers with the best of them…

Kokatat has begun accepting applications for the 2014 American Made Outdoor Gear Awards celebrating companies who, like Kokatat, have dedicated themselves to American manufacturing and sourcing.

Partnering to bring safer, more affordably priced helmets to the paddlesports community, NRS hopes to increase the production and distribution of WRSI's revolutionary helmet.

Two firefighters head into the Arctic Circle, hoping to beat the fall freeze and become the first team to kayak the 3500 km Northwest Passage in a single season.

On August 1, 2013, Icelandic sea kayaker Guðni Páll Viktorsson completed the multi-month, 1,550-mile circumnavigation of his home country.

At this year's Outdoor Retailer Summer Market tradeshow, the biggest schmooze and product fest in the industry, paddlesports manufacturers again pulled out all the stops to make paddling better than ever. Read on for a quick recap straight from the floor show of what's out there...

When Rob Lesser accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award from Canoe & Kayak magazine at this year’s outdoor Retailer Summer Market tradeshow in Salt Lake City, he was quick to praise today’s younger generation of paddlers for carrying the torch. That was just one of many highlights at this year’s show as the 2013 Canoe & Kayak Awards presented by Verizon brought the industry together for one heckuva gala evening…

A pair of paddlers broke several records paddling a 440-mile stretch of Canada's Yukon River in an unsupported voyage in their custom-made canoe in just little over two days.

Tweeters can help save the Colorado River. At this year’s Outdoor Retailer Summer Market tradeshow July 30-Aug. 4, river runners and more are being asked to tweet a simple message to former REI CEO and current Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell– who leads the major federal agency that makes policy on the Colorado River – to help save the West's greatest waterway…