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Month: October 2015 (Page 3 of 5)

Unsponsored Q&A – Mariann Saether

12 October 2015 / / 0 Comments

Mariann Saether is one of the worlds top paddlers. Having numerous big water competition wins, first descents and expedition epics under her belt. It is a great pleasure to have Mariann take part in the Unsponsored Q&A series.

Tell us a little a bit about you accomplishments in the canoeing/kayaking world. – heheh… I am gonna kick this over to my webpage: http://mariannsaether.no/achievements/

Adidas Sickline Extreme Kayak World Championships 2015

In addition I have had a great 2015 season with winning the prestigious Branset extreme race during the Voss extreme sportweek, the Sweet Rumble on the Sjoa (Sjoa festival). I also made it to my first ever semi-finals in canoe slalom in a major competition (World Cup in Pau, France) and placed 24th. Today I also became the Norwegian Champion (beating all the men´s times) in canoe slalom K1, and also in C1.

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Outliving It (Part One): A look At First Descents

12 October 2015 / / 0 Comments

Outliving It (Part One): A look At First Descents

Dagger athlete Brad Ludden takes you inside the amazing world of First Descents, an organization designed to get cancer fighters and survivors into kayaks.

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Movie Monday 12 October 2015

12 October 2015 / / 0 Comments

Monday again. Before you get too engrossed in work check out these carefully selected edits from around the globe.

A Cloudy Day At Great Falls

a Cloudy Day at Great Falls from Bret Goering on Vimeo.

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Thompson River After/During Hurricane Joaquin

11 October 2015 / / 0 Comments

Thompson River After/During Hurricane Joaquin

The category 4 Hurricane Joaquin brought some serious rain to the South East of United States. With flood warnings and most of the rivers rising incredibly fast, we decided to run Thompson Creek, one of the steepest stretches of whitewater in the East Coast with a staked loss of 800ft. in less than a mile, before the river meets Lake Jocassee.

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HF – Paddle Expo 2015

10 October 2015 / / 0 Comments

The HF stand at Paddle Expo had a range of really cool gear on display from both HF and Astral.

The cowtail shown here stood out as the tape/bungee used did not have a flat profile when stretched but was actually cylindrical as a bungee cord has been used. Simple idea but looks really well executed.

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Double Dutch Paddles

10 October 2015 / / 0 Comments

Double Dutch are a paddle company who are mainly known here in the UK for their superb slalom paddles. After spending some time checking out the rest of the whitewater range at Paddle Expo 2015 I’m wondering why we don’t see more of these paddles over here.

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The whole range looks superb, a range of blade shapes made with different materials that are available on a range of shafts.

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Dagger New Colours

8 October 2015 / / 2 Comments

Dagger have released detail on the new colour line up. It’s great to see them trying out something a little bit more in your face with the Aurora colour scheme. It looks awesome.

Dagger New Colours

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The Jewel of Virginia Whitewater

8 October 2015 / / 1 Comment

A pretty serious piece of whitewater is shown in this edit from Adam Freeman.

The Jewel of Virginia Whitewater

I would like to show you a little piece of the most committing and beautiful creek in Virginia. Bottoms Creek sits on top of Bent Mountain just outside of Roanoke. The gorge is carved out of Gneiss is a type of rock formed by high-grade regional metamorphic processes from pre-existing formations that were originally either igneous or sedimentary rocks. It creates perfect slides and classic cali whitewater drops in parts of the gorge.

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Oscar McBurney Norway 2015 Reel

7 October 2015 / / 0 Comments

Superb big water and big falls action. The Oscar McBurney Norway 2015 Reel is very well filmed and edited. One of the best edits I have seen so far this year. The use of the drone to give different filming angles has worked really well.

Oscar McBurney Norway 2015 Reel

Here is a short and sweet summery of my time in Norway this year. Big water, Waterfalls and first descents, it was a pretty special scandinavian trip!

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British Universities Creek Race 2015

7 October 2015 / / 1 Comment

This year past and present kayaking students made the pilgrimage to the Scottish Highlands to take part in the British Universities Creek Race 2015. The race is based in the catchment area of the Glen Etive and Glen Coe with the final venue for the race being dictated by the prevailing water conditions.

British Universities Creek Race 2015

The event

Sickline wasn’t the only Pyranha 1, 2 victory this year – check out this cool edit of the BUCR Alumni BoaterX by Team Paddler Mark Mulrain; we’re not sure if he’s sped the video up or if he really is that fast, but either way, he won (and even had time for a quick surf in the qualifiers!)

#FastIsFun #9RLove

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French Beater

7 October 2015 / / 0 Comments

French Beater

Sometimes things just don’t go the way you want them to. Five years worth of beaterings.

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ASTRAL G Rubber Science

6 October 2015 / / 0 Comments

When Astral first launched their line of watershoes a few years back the sole was constructed from Five Ten Stealth rubber. However Five Ten were bought out by Adidas and the availability of the Stealth rubber sole for third parties dried up.

Astral G Rubber Science

Knowing that they were onto something really special with their line up of shoes Astral went out and made a compound that was far better in terms of both grip and wear than the Stealth rubber they had previously used.

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