J. PRSKAVEC
M. POLACZYK
M. SMOLEN
K. KUDEJOVA
R. FUNK
M. PFEIFER
D. FLORENCE
B. SAVSEK
R. WESTLEY
J. FOX
K. HOSKOVA
N. VILARRUBLA
ANTON/BENZIEN
PICCO/BISO
KLAUSS/PECHE
I find slalom videos tend to bore me, no mountains, just artificial sites with blocks making features, sure there is a lot to be learnt from watching video but for pure interest and enjoyment its about white water, pushing the limits of paddling.
2014 is already lining up to be another exciting year of freestyle action with major events set to be held on the best features across the World. Starting off with the Nile River Festival in Africa the season will continue with the National Student Rodeo in the UK in March, followed by a full calendar of European and USA competitions as well as other events, across the globe.
Last summer Double Dutch introduced the Nutron to the market: A slalom paddle made of 2 pieces, instead of 3.
A month of crackdowns on sand-mining syndicates operating on the uMsundusi and the uMngeni Rivers by the canoeist’s environmental group the Dusi Umgeni Conservation Trust (DUCT) and local municipal officials has blown the cover on many of these covert operations.
Meet Lydia Keefe Sampson. Lydia grew up in Seattle, Washington surrounded by a brother and mother who paddled, and competed in Sprint Canoe and Kayak.
The 2013 all European ICF season spreads its wings in 2014 with the senior Worlds in Deep Creek, Maryland, USA and U23 & Junior World’s on the Penrith course in New South Wales, Australia during April.
It's hard to explain in today's slalom terms, to people who know slalom as an Olympic sport, what our sport was like only ten years ago. We who were there are now "old- school"-we were kayakers before people knew what kayakers were.
If you train in areas with year-round snow cover, you shouldn’t miss cross-country skiing out of your training plan. It doesn’t matter whether you use a classic or skate technique, or whether you are beginner or advanced skier, cross-country skiing has many health benefits which definitely improve your paddling skills.
Rivals wondering when they’ll see Germany’s 14-time sprint kayaking world champion and four-time Olympic champion Katrin Wagner-Augustin exit the world stage will have a year or two to wait, it appears.
Olympics bosses are leaning heavily on the organisers of Rio 2016 after growing alarm that the project is lagging behind schedule. International Olympic committee President Thomas Bach is in Rio this week for urgent talks with the Olympic Games organisers.
The Dusi Canoe Marathon organisers have given the green light to four stand up paddleboarders to enter the 2014 race, making history as the first SUP competitors to embark on the tough three day paddling race from Camps Drift to Blue Lagoon.
The 2014 Australian Open concludes following an exciting day of finals. Jessica Fox has continued her blistering form adding the K1W and C1W Australian Open titles to the National titles she recorded on Friday and Saturday.
Tim Baillie, who with C2 partner Etienne Stott made history in the London 2012 Olympics by winning a first gold medal for GB in the sport of canoe slalom, has decided to retire from the sport. Best friends since teenagers and a highly popular team on the international circuit, the pair enjoyed one of sport’s longest running partnerships which spanned nine seasons.
If days 3 and 4 represented a turn around in the K2 standings at the Río Negro Regatta, no less surprising were the last two stages finishing in Viedma, the final destination of the great Argentinian race. On the final day the very young Franco Balboa and José Luis Guerrero claimed the overall victory, inheriting the throne left by Pinta and Mozzicafredo, twelve-time kings of the regatta.
Training tips from World Champion Ros Lawrence and how to survive the hot Australian summer.
Pietermaritzburg – The emergence of a number of classy female paddlers has boldly broadened the elite women’s field for this year’s Dusi Canoe Marathon which gets underway at Camps Drift in Pietermaritzburg on Thursday 13 February.
The last two days - the third and fourth stages of the Río Negro Regatta were held in Argentina from Choele Choel to Luis Beltran (38 km) and Don Andrés to General Conesa (43 km). There has been a very big change in the K2 races due to the incidents in the front bunch on the first two stages.
The International Canoe Federation (ICF) and the Olympic Solidarity offered their third Sprint Canoe Coach’s course for Levels 1 and 2 this past December.
Pietermaritzburg – Paddlers preparing for the upcoming Dusi Canoe Marathon that starts at Camps Drift on 13 February are wrestling with the problems caused by the ever increasing sand mining operations on the two rivers that play host to the famous canoeing race.
As canoeists, we can all remember our first time trying out a sprint canoe. Steadying yourself against the dock, paddle in hand, pushing off gingerly (perhaps with the help of someone else holding on to the stern of the boat) and slapping the water repeatedly with your blade. SPLASH! Into the water again. It’s a familiar cycle: push off, fall in, climb up, repeat.
M. DAWSON
C. KUHNLE
M. BENUS
A. PETERS
V. KHUDZENKA
E. MEDVECKZKY
GRIJIC/NOVAKOVIC
L. QIANG
M. DE JONGE
R. POULSEN
A. CHERVOVA
S. TARNOVSCHI
J. MOCKE
E. LEVEMYR
S. RAFAEL
H. TAKAKU
M. GRAZIANI
J. EGAN
N. LJUBEK
MINDE/HAMAR
PINTA/MOZZICAFI
S. LAMMLER
A. BUSLAIEVA
M. WEGMAN
S. REINOSO