Events
Soft Serve Supping: National Ice Cream Month Calls for a Floating Parlor
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Paris Olympics Here We Come: Switzerland Sweeps Extreme Canoe Slalom
Forget slalom and sprint at this year’s Olympics…after the final day of this year’s 2021 ICF junior and U23 canoe slalom world championships in...
Canoeing
Germany’s Funk Wins Women’s Slalom Kayak Gold, Australia’s Fox Nabs Inaugural Women’s C-1 Honors
Germany’s Ricarda Funk buried the heartbreak of missing selection for the Rio Olympics with an error-free run to win gold in the women’s kayak...
Canoeing
Sprint Paddlers Aren’t Done After Tokyo; Next Up: Oklahoma’s ICF Canoe Sprint Super Cup
After racing in the Olympics in Tokyo, the world's best sprint paddlers won’t be done. The paddling continues at the 2021 ICF Canoe Sprint...
Athlete Stories
Cool Running: Jamaica’s Solomon Maragh Makes Slalom History
Call it Cool Paddling. In the 1993 movie "Cool Running," a group of Jamaicans created history by qualifying for the bobsled competition at the...
Athlete Stories
Holy Beatdown! Level6 King of Alps Comp Goes Awwwfff!
25 Nations – 250 Paddlers – 100% Fun. That sums up Italy’s King of the Alps kayak contest, which organizers held with COVID protocols...
Athlete Stories
Tokyo Here We Come: Meet the 3 Whitewater Paddlers Representing the USA at the Olympics
All eyes were on US racers at the 2021 ICF Canoe Slalom World Cup in Prague, Czech Republic, on June 11–13, as berths at...
Events
4X Champ: Jackson Takes North Fork Crown (Plus, POV of Winning Run)
Don’t think that a year off from racing because of COVID-19 slowed extreme kayakers down at all. Especially phenom Dane Jackson, who won again...
Canoeing
Cuba Calling: Caribbean Country Garners 5 Golds at ICF World Cup Sprint Event
Forget the cigars...Cuba is making itself known for sprint paddling. Boding well for competing in the Tokyo Olympics, the country emerged as serious medal contender...
Events
Jackson Wins Little White Extreme Race (Bonus: Watch Vid of Top 4 Racers Side-by-Side!)
Dane Jackson came out swinging at one of the first extreme kayak races of the season, winning the 2021 Little White Salmon Race on...
Accessories
When was the last time you practiced setting up a Z-Drag?
So you've got your Z-Drag kit prepped with rescue rope, webbing, pulleys, carabiners, and cordage. But when was the last time you actually took...
Canoeing
70th Dusi Canoe Marathon Kicks Off (80-year-old Races for 10th Time!)
The COVID-19 pandemic isn't stopping South Africa's coveted Dusi Canoe Marathon from its 70th edition, as of the MyLife Dusi Canoe Marathon sets off from...
Events
Excuse Me, Is This Your Disco Ball? Whacko Items Found on River Cleanups
Every year around the country, river advocacy groups, outfitters, paddling shops and more host river cleanups to pick trash out of their local waterways....
Canoeing
Canadian Teams Invited to Register for COVID-adapted Yukon River Quest June 23-26, 2021
The “Race to the Midnight Sun” will take place in 2021, with registration opening last week for iconic Yukon River Quest and new Half...
Canoeing
Canoecopia Goes Virtual March 12-14
After having to cancel last year’s venerable Canoecopia consumer tradeshow in Madison, WI, due to the pandemic, organizer Darren Bush is planning a virtual...
Canoeing
Nation’s Top River Sojourns
To "sojourn" is "to dwell in a place temporarily." If you throw in the word "river" beforehand, and then treat sojourn as a noun,...
Canoeing
Extreme Slalom in the Olympics?
The International Canoe Federation is one step closer to adding extreme canoe slalom to the Olympic program. The ICF Board voted to include men’s and...
Events
Don’t Think There’s Money in Kayak Fishing? Hobie Bass Open Series Pays Out $62K; Winner Ryan Lambert Pockets $30K
When the splashing ended, drags stopped screaming and wind finally subsided, Ryan Lambert’s name stood alone atop the leader board at the Hobie Bass...
Events
Closing In On 4 Minutes: A Q&A with 25th Green Race Record-setter Dane Jackson (Watch Video!)
While things looked a little different due to COVID restrictions at this year’s marquee 2020 Green Race — an extreme kayaking race on Asheville,...
Events
Sweden Gets First-ever World Cup Slalom Medal…And it’s a Gold! (And 16-year-old American Evy Leibfarth Wins Bronze!)
Chalk one up for the Swedes...and 16-year-old female slalom racers in the U.S. An historic first-ever slalom world cup gold medal for Sweden; a gold...
Events
Sink, Don’t Think: NRS Debuts “The Mystery” Film!
Squirt boaters occupy a peculiar cult in the world of kayaking
— those who live to go down beneath surface of the water rather than...
Destinations
Lord of the Fork Race (Spoiler: Dane Won) Kicks Off KY’s Biggest Kayak Weekend
It’s East Coast extreme kayaking race season, COVID be damned. And it kicked off the last weekend of October on Kentucky’s Russell Fork. Every...
Events
Quick-thinking Kayakers Rescue Fellow Paddler Trapped Behind W. Va.’s Kanawha Falls
Chalk one up for the camaraderie of kayakers. In a story broken by Fayette County, West Va.’s WCHSTV.com, a Tennessee kayaker was rescued from behind...
Events
World Record Attempt to SUP Around Great Britain
Great Britain is about to be supped around, mate. On July 26, 36-year-old Jordan Wylie set out on a SUP world record attempt to stand-up...
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COVID, Schmovid: Dane Jackson, Great Britain’s Robinson-Shaw Take World Freestyle Kayak Crowns
Even COVID-19 couldn’t keep kayak phenom Dane Jackson from winning his fourth World Freestyle Kayak Championship.
https://youtu.be/ybE4nlHrEsk?t=5868
British freestyle paddler Ottilie Robinson-Shaw completed...
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Paddling Scotland’s Glasgow to Edinburgh Canoe Trail
By Corey Buhay
“Hiya, where you goin’ thar?” a man shouted from the shore. I looked up from my paddling...
Break Out the Popcorn: HBO/TGR “Edge of the Earth” Series Debuts
Get ready to be on the edge of your seat for "Edge of the Earth," a new HBO and...
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COVID, Schmovid: Dane Jackson, Great Britain’s Robinson-Shaw Take World Freestyle Kayak Crowns
Even COVID-19 couldn’t keep kayak phenom Dane Jackson from...
New King & Queen of North Fork Champs: Hayden Voorhees, Jenn Chrimes Take Crowns
There’s a new King and Queen of the North...
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