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Paddling Industry News
What to Watch: 2022 USA Freestyle National Team Trials : Updated with video
Updated 4/13/2022: If you missed the 2022 USA Freestyle National Team Trials check out this highlight video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEKaMY0Vdg8 This weekend you can watch the best of...
Athlete Stories
NRS Welcomes Emily Jackson, Darby McAdams and Rush Sturges to Athlete Team
Northwest River Supplies (NRS) is welcoming three new athletes to a growing team of ambassadors that prioritize paddling and whitewater as well as community...
Destinations
Small World Match: Outfitter Pledges to Match Donations to Ecuadorian Rivers Institute by 4/15
Outfitter Small World Adventures is putting its money where its river mouth is. The company announced that for all donations to the Ecuadorian Rivers Institute made by...
Athlete Stories
ICF Slalom Racer Details Escape from Ukraine
On February 24, Ukrainian slalom kayaker Viktoriia Dobrotvorska was woken by the sound of her phone going crazy, as news broke that her country was under...
Paddling Industry News
Singleton to Retire as AW Head
For as long as most of us at Paddling Life can remember, Mark Singleton has been the life force behind conservation and river access...
Paddling Industry News
Ecuador’s Quijos River Claims Two Lives This Winter, Saddening Boating Community
Ecuador’s Quijos River claimed the lives this winter of two kayakers, saddening the boating community, friends and family members. While unrelated, the two deaths...
Athlete Stories
Getting Barreled in a River Wave? Dane Jackson Weighs In
This fall, Dane Jackson got something even Kelly Slater cherishes: barreled in a wave.
Only Jackson, paddling Zimbabwe's Zambezi River, got his on a river...
Destinations
6 Days/6 Rivers: A Costa Rican Kayaking Odyssey with Amazing Vacations
“Buenas Lineas,” says our guide Arnaldo Cespedes. “Good lines.”
We just finished scouting a Class IV rapid called Robin Hood on Costa Rica’s Rio Naranjo...
Evergreen
It’s River Permit Time: 10 Tips from our Friends at CKS!
The Selway. Middle Fork. Yampa. Lodore. Deso/Gray. San Juan. Cataract. Salt. Grand. Those are just a few of the iconic western rivers up for...
Paddling Industry News
Hellooh 2022: Slew of Acquisitions Lead to Changing Face of Paddlesports
In the past few years, there’s been a changing of the guard of sorts in the paddlesports sector, with new CEOs and companies behind...
Paddling Industry News
American WW Year-end Wrap!
Let's put it this way: If the nonprofit was an MMA fighter, it'd be fighting up a class or two... As American Whitewater ED Mark...
Athlete Stories
Of Machetes and High Water: Stookesberry on His Leg Wound on Ecuador’s Rio Chalupas
After a two-pronged attempt of first descent of Ecuador’s notoriously steep Rio Chalupas this fall — which is being kept under wraps until the...
Athlete Stories
Kayak Community Mourns Death of Adam Mayo on Mexico’s Rio Jalacingo (and Injuries to Nathan Werner)
Friends and family, as well as the Colorado and Oregon kayaking communities, are mourning the death of kayaker Adam Mayo, 43, who passed away...
Athlete Stories
Into the Land of Icelandic Waterfalls: Check the New RedBull Film “Jötunn”
We dare you to try and keep their names apart, but kayakers Aniol Serrasolses and Mikel Sarasola, along with photographers Aleix Salvat and David Nogales, ventured...
Paddling Life Exclusives
Breaking Down The Code: Inside Dagger’s New Creeker
Call it Mission Possible. Or the Mamba Phantom, which has the same initials. Credit Snowy Robertson and his design team at Dagger for breaking the...
Evergreen
Do They Really Make Kayaking Gear This Small? Watch This Vid
Apparently so. Northwest kayaker Paul Kuthe is raising his son Canyon, 7, and his friend’s daughter, Anne, 7, to becoming true kayaking kids, earning the...
Apparel
Testing the Level 6 Australis
Want a sweet-looking and performing shortie for warm water/weather paddling? Look no further than the Australis from Level 6, a short-sleeve semi-dry top constructed...
Canoeing
Oly Champs Descend On World Champs
Call it medal mania. All four Tokyo champions will look to create history this weekend when they attempt to become the first athletes to...
Events
Dane Wins Green Race at 4:12, Sub-4 Still Holy Grail (And Watch His Winning Run!) Plus: Race Time Contest Winner!)
After all the hoopla about trying to best the coveted 4.0 time mark in the annual Green Race, Dane Jackson won the marquee extreme...
Apparel
Inside Level6’s Duke Drytop (with Video Walkthrough!)
Our friends up in the great white north have been working on a three-season drytop the past few years and the updated 2021 Duke...
Athlete Stories
First Time’s a Charm: Dane Jackson Wins Oetz Extreme Race (Formerly Sickline)
Surprise? Not! We all knew it was coming.
Jackson Kayak and Red Bull kayaker Dane Jackson showed he is still very much the world’s best,...
Athlete Stories
ICF Extreme Slalom World Champs Wrap-up on New Cunovo Course in Bratislava, Slovakia
Giving the newly re-designed Cunovo Water Sports Center in Bratislava, Slovakia, its first world-class test, some of the world’s best slalom and extreme kayakers...
Athlete Stories
The Quest for 4.0: Dane Jackson on Breaking the 4-minute Mark on the Green
Forget Chasing Mavericks. Like runners’ quest for the 4-minute mile, Red Bull athlete and Jackson Kayak’s Dane Jackson is training his tail off for...
Athlete Stories
Back For More: Check out NRS Flowstate!
Getting the flow state. That's the mantra being preached by NRS, which is halfway through the second season of its popular Flowstate video series, put...
Latest news
Inside the Pyranha “Thigh Hooker” (Plus Vid from 16-year-old sensation Judah Harms)
With shorter to medium sized paddlers wanting a more aggressive thigh hook in many Pyranha boats, the company has...
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Plastic Tides: Using Sea Kayaks to Help Rid the Ocean of Waste
(By Ken Campbell) My name is Ken Campbell and in addition to being a long-time kayak guide and instructor, I...
Tristan Bussell and NRS Launch “Before I Die”
Learning he had the gene for Early Onset Alzheimer’s motivated Tristan Bussell to turn his dream of kayaking off a waterfall into reality.
Must read
Dane Jackson Breaks 4-Minute Mark on Green: Special PL Q&A! Plus: NPR Interviews Co-Winner Adriene Levknecht
Well, he did it…finally. Living up to this year’s...
Guitar Paddle the S. Fork Payette, Anyone?
Now that strikes a chord. The sound of running...
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