Video - Cape Town Surfski Race 2
Video - Cape Town Surfski Race 2. Lagoon Beach to Big Bay
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12 Random things Olympians did this weekend!
12 Random things Olympians did this weekend!
Racing on my mind
We're in the depths of a not so deep winter (in fact, has it even been winter yet?), and it's been pretty tough here and there. It feels a long time since the buzz of the end of last season and a fairly long way to the next. But I have found myself thinking more and more about racing, probably prompted by the need to plan for the 2015 season. So I decided to do something that I've never done before: try and express in writing what it is about racing that makes it so important to me.
2015 Waka Ama Sprints - Premier Men - W6 1500 Final
Premier Men - W6 1500 Final. 2015 Waka Ama National Sprint (outrigger canoe) competition held at Lake Karapiro.
Climate change affects 2014 Euro Cup Series
It is time to summarize the results of the Euro Cup competition for 2014. Mother Nature showed us her teeth during the year, with floods and droughts, causing some events to be cancelled and others postponed. This affected many teams’ plans to attend events and may be the reason we had so few teams qualifying for this series.
Hungarian Honved Canoe Sprint Club trains in Abu Dhabi
The late autumn-winter training camp of the the Honved Canoe Club took off in Abu Dhabi in October last year. Attila Vajda also joined. The weather was stunning and everyone was happy with the conditions, the training environment and the facilities. The only down side was the struggle with the wind that picks up heavily at a certain time of the day.
Top tips for getting a kayak on a plane and the top 7 kayak friendly airlines
Ever had butterfly's on the drive to your paddling destination. Boat and gear loaded in the car. You know whats in store. Your totally prepared but will it work? Will you get through it ok? Today your not driving to a new rapid, river, big drop or wave. Today your driving to the airport and your nerve wracking challenge and line of choice is to make it through the check in desk, past the agent and make it safely to your next paddling destination with all of your money and gear.
How to get sponsors. This is a 5 steps blueprint to successfully get sponsorships.
Before going after a sponsor, there are important things to figure out. For that, you have to see yourself as a product. If you're going to sell it (ie.: get sponsors) you should know what it's made of and what it's worth.
Olympic reforms for sprint and slalom - attractiveness, understandability, smaller
Already four weeks before Monte Carlo, the IFC has been able to draw out a piece of future at the meeting of the federation in Warsaw. “We know, we have to change”, said Konietzko. There is great nervousness in the federation. Just as wrestling, canoeing does not count to the sports with the most participants, but has a broad variety of individual disciplines.
IOC’s Agenda 2020: A cautious answer to terrifying challenges
It may leave many crucial questions open. But by accepting president Thomas Bach’s Agenda 2020 reform programme unanimously, the IOC has set the yardstick that it will be measured by for many years to come.
HOW CONFIDENCE IS DIFFERENT THAN SELF-ESTEEM & WHY IT MATTERS
As a professional athlete, I was measured, celebrated, and praised for outcomes that I produced, rather than who I was. It is the nature of competing for a living; and living in the public eye. My coaches treated me better when I performed well, and my friends at home only praised me when the media covered me, which was only when I did well in my races.
Women’s canoeing should have place in Olympics
Canoeing has one of the poorest gender equality ratios of any Summer Olympic sport, and although female kayakers are allowed to compete in both the sprint and slalom disciplines, female canoeists are kept out of the Games altogether.
Ed’s calm over Olympic hopes
HE MAY have failed to top the podium at either European or World Championship level this season, but Olympic sprint canoe champion Ed McKeever insists there is no need to panic as he continues on the road to Rio 2016.
The Motions of Kayaking and Canoeing Recorded through Light Painting
Ontario-based photographer Stephen Orlando is fascinated with human movement and uses programmable LED light sticks attached to kayak paddles, people, racquets, and other objects to translate that movement into photographic light paintings. The act of recording motion on the surface of water surrounded by reflections creates a surprisingly unique effect, almost sculptural in nature. You can see many more photos in his kayaking, canoeing, and swimming galleries.
Doping: Russia allegations on German TV prompt Wada inquiry
The World Anti-Doping Agency said it will "fully investigate" after a German TV documentary alleged that Russia was funding a systematic doping programme.
The Paddle Bike
Includes a video - Die Bremer Stiudenten Kai Eggemann und Michael Meyer-Coors, die vor Kurzem das Ergebnis ihrer Masterarbeit der Öffentlichkeits präsentiert haben, unterziehen derzeit ihr Paddelfahrrad dem Praxistest.
Photo Gallery 2014 Hurley Classic Freestyle
Great photos from the Hurley Classic by Antony Edmonds.
Mark Proctor - Update on my slalom career
When I got back into training over the summer and started up C2 I never considered the fact I might drop C1. But after putting in some serious training and racing time in C2 it became very clear to me that Etienne and I have something good going on in C2 and that I’d like to really give it my full attention going forward.
2020 Olympic Agenda - Jessica Fox
On November 18, 2014, IOC President Thomas Bach first presented the Olympic Agenda 2020, a strategic roadmap for the future of the Olympic Movement, which will be discussed and voted on by the full IOC membership at the 127th IOC Session this 8 and 9 December in Monaco, to a round table of athletes, many of whom actively contributed to the Olympic Agenda 2020 process. Here is what Australia's Jessica Fox said after the meeting.
Adventurers of the Year 2014/2015 - The Kayaker: Aleksander Doba
On April 19, 2014, Doba, who is now 68, paddled the final stroke of his 7,716-mile transatlantic journey, docking OLO, his 23-foot kayak, in a marina in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. The Polish native had departed from Lisbon, Portugal, on October 5, 2013, with the intention of paddling 5,400 miles across the Atlantic's widest point and arriving in Florida in mid-February.
2014 Sportscene Paddlesports Video
This is the first time we produced a Sportscene promotional video. With this video we depict the rich diversity of Paddlesports and our community. Having said that, we still didn't manage to feature all 15 disciplines...
2014 Slalom season over – winter training and some proper rivers
The 2014 slalom season is over. I had two goals, first of all to gain promotion to Premier Division (done) and second to race well and achieve my best result at the British Open. So how did I get on?
Deadline extended for Rio 2016 Volunteer Programme
Those interested in applying to become a volunteer at the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games now have until 15 December.
Chippington becomes eight time world champion
With two more world titles in Moscow, Russia, Great British para-canoeist Jeannette Chippington has taken her tally to eight and now has her sights set on Rio 2016.
Countries with greater gender equality win more Olympic medals
In countries with greater gender equality - specifically relating to education and income - both men and women perform better at the Olympics, a study finds
Olympic Games officials approved of the canoeing lake in Rio, despite the presence of algae
During their visit to Rio de Janeiro, representatives of 13 National Olympic Committees (NOC), among them former rowing and canoeing athletes, praised many beautiful areas in the city. Yet at the same time they expressed concern about the chaotic traffic in the area.
Adam van Koeverden: You’re wrong, Cathal Kelly: It is about being clean
When Globe sports columnist Cathal Kelly tweeted: “Alex Rodriguez did drugs. So would I. And so would you.” I tweeted back to say that I don’t fall into that same category, but not before I read the article.
2014 Green Race Almost too Close to Call
“Every year always seems to be the best one ever,” said race co-organizer Jason Hale at the awards ceremony of this year’s world-renowned Green Race in North Carolina. The nineteenth installment of the annual extreme creek event once again delivered on its promise of unrivaled excitement. It began Saturday morning when racers awoke to several inches of snow in the surrounding region, delaying the race one hour from its heralded “high noon” start time, and lasted through the final ceremonies where organizers struggled to name a single winner.
21 Year Study Shows Remarkable Two Decade Maintenance Of Peak Physical Perfomance
Aging is associated with physical decline. Previous studies have pointed out in average people, the maximum heart rate, the amount of oxygen carried by each beat of the heart, and maximum blood oxygen saturation all drop over the course of years. But what if the decline is not inevitable?