The Mouth to Mouth Surfski race is held on 40km of the most pristine and untouched coastline, possibly anywhere in the world. Between Richards Bay Harbour and Mtunzini river mouth on the Kwazulu Natal North Coast, the only sign of civilization is a light house at the 23 km mark. Paddling this stretch of coast line is eerie. It's long been on my bucket list, and when the NE blows, it is an amazing downwind surfski run.
Teaser and website - 2015 European Canoe Marathon Championships in Bohinj, Slovenia
Jono Wing and Stuart Hogg have both taken on new state-of-the-art boats in a bid to reach the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.
We all know how important sleep is, not just for physical regeneration but for mental and psychological recovery as well. And when you're a cyclist – professional or otherwise – sleep plays an even more vital role than it might for the average person.
IOC leaders gather in the Swiss lakeside town of Montreux this week to put the finishing touches on a package of reforms, including changes to the bidding process and sports program and creation of an Olympic television channel.
12 year old Badfish SUP team rider Miles sticks a body varial 180 to switch shuv-it on the Scout Wave in Salida, CO. This is not an easy feat, and grown men twice his age even have a hard time pulling this off. Kudos to you Miles! We can’t wait to see your future progress in the SUP world!
How did Adam first succeed at such a young age (he was 22 years old when he won gold and bronze medals at the Olympic Games in Athens) and how does he stay motivated to keep going? He spoke on "The Pursuable Prime" and shared tips anyone can use to succeed at a recent TEDx conference in Toronto.
In 2012, a year after the best racing season of his life (and fresh off an appearance on Australia's Dancing with the Stars), Eckstein Googled World Records + Pull ups. He pondered the one-hour, 12-hour, and 24-hour records – 1,009, 4,002, and 4,025 pull-ups, respectively -- and thought I'd like to have a crack at one of those. Or maybe two.
Long before kayakers attempted spins and cartwheels on river waves, Larson nailed them in the surf.
"I can't be vegan; I run triathlons!" "I swim!" "I play golf!" Despite the fact that the myths surrounding vegan nutrition are long since busted, and the fact that veganism is getting more and more popular among amateur and professional athletes, this is still one of the arguments I hear most often when discussing food ethics with non-vegans.
Not all your training has to be on the water or in the gym. In fact you can add a powerful dimension to your performance by including short mental training sessions that will develop your psychological strengths of mastery motivation, decision-making and execution. Along with teamwork, these are the four fundamentals that give you the self-confidence to perform to your potential.
ONE of the greatest ironmen in history is back on the beach with Grant Kenny to contest the gruelling Coolangatta Gold 30 years after he starred in the movie. The 51-year-old Kenny has lodged an entry for the 41.5km torture test on November 2 which is considered to be the toughest race in surf lifesaving.
IF ALLAMBIE surf ski paddler Tim Jacobs wins the 2014 Lion Island Challenge tomorrow the organisers might have to rename the event after him next year. Jacobs, 36, will compete in the challenge for the eighth time in a row, after winning all previous seven he has taken part in.
This year I was a member of the GB Freestyle Team for the first time, and took part in my first international freestyle competition in Bratislava. Afterward I thought that there is actually a lot that freestyle paddlers and non-freestyle paddlers can learn from the way that the GB team train, and thought I would share these!
The premier event in paddlesports and first of its kind, the World Paddle Awards (WPA) for the 2014 season will take place on Saturday 9 May 2015 in Augsburg.
The awards recognise the diversity of people and organisations in our community and honour the hard work they put into our sport. Not only are there awards for the athletes but also for coaches, officials (volunteers), media, event organisers and so on.
Drinking a coffee and eating a croissant at a local bakery, a patron noticed the shirt fellow diner and canoe and kayak athlete Fabien Lefèvre was wearing.
It was a white long-sleeved Team USA white tee from the recent 2014 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships, which took place at the Deep Creek whitewater course in McHenry, Maryland on Sept. 20. The man had no idea who Lefèvre was, but knew about the world championship event. He asked Lefèvre if he attended it.
Norway's ruling party just voted against funding Oslo's 2022 Winter Olympics bid, essentially forcing the city to drop out of the race. It's just the latest in a long series of cities and countries who have given an emphatic "no" to hosting the Olympic quagmire.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission brought to a close its seventh visit (29 September to 1 October) to the South American host city today: it follows a successful winter here for Brazil and for the country’s preparations for the Olympic Games, which included the FIFA World Cup, Rio 2016’s first test event, the Rio 2016 World Press Briefing and the Rio 2016 World Broadcasters Meeting. The Commission left Rio satisfied with the progress that the Rio organisers have made since their last visit in March this year.
The world progresses at a rapid pace, but in sport it often stands still. Sometimes for decades. Sometimes for hundreds of years.
This video, featuring champion swimmers Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte, among others, is marked by an audio track Red Productions that will crush your self-doubts, drag you out of bed and into the freezing morning for a run or swim, and motivate and inspire you.
The Elwha River, which courses through northwest Washington state’s Olympic Peninsula, once hosted enormous runs of chinook and red salmon. But that came to an end in 1913 with the building of the Elwha River dam, which produced plentiful electricity for the region but which also wasn’t equipped with fish ladders, devices that allow the animals to surpass dams.
The official Deep Creek 2014 Canoe Slalom round up video.
The Sprint world championships held in Moscow ended with a triumphant victory for Yuri Cheban, an Olympic champion at the London 2012 Olympic Games and an ‘Honoured Sportsmaster’ in his home country of Ukraine. In the final of the men’s C1 200m Yuri was one thousandth of a second ahead of Russian Alexey Korovashkov, whose boat almost collided with Cheban’s at the finish line.
After 25 years the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships returns to American shores. Here are our 10 predictions on what to expect for the Deep Creek Worlds, with insights from paddlers and organisers. Everything points to it being a thrilling race.
A scale model of the Rio 2016 Olympic Canoe Slalom course, a key element of the X-Park that will be located within the Deodoro Olympic Park, has undergone extensive testing in a laboratory at Prague’s Czech Technical University.
Despite longstanding consensus that a number of non-kayaking activities qualified as sports, athletic experts now tell us that this notion is false. “At first glance it seems like there are a lot of sports,” said former NFL head coach Bill Clancy, “but when you look closer, everything is either not a sport or kayaking.”
I haven’t had the chance to paddle nearly as much this summer as I have in the past, but by remaining focused on the concepts of deep and deliberate practice, I’m happy to report that both my downwind and flat water paddling continues to get faster despite only paddling 2 days a week.
To many people rowing and paddling are the same thing. They say they are going to row a canoe and they call the paddle an oar. To be sure, there is a bigger difference between rowing and canoeing or kayaking than semantics.