All Blog Posts Tagged 'freestyle' (6)

Freestyle Kayaking: How to Mc'Nasty

This month i’m going to teach you how to do the McNasty.

It’s a great move, you can start it from many different positions and setups, it’s quick to do, impressive to see and is one of the highest scoring moves.

The technique I’m going to show you here is the most commonly used one and is the one I use nearly…

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Added by James Bebbington on April 17, 2013 at 5:00am — No Comments

Training on the Nantahala

With just about a week until the first event of the 2012 Canoe Freestyle World Cup coming up lots of competitors are showing up to the Southeast! Everyone is training hard hoping to make the top spot.

Personally I had not really been in a playboat over the past year until about a month ago when I decided to start training... Oddly enough things seem to be coming together recently as I have been getting back used to my playboat and doing those "Front Flip"…

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Added by Brad McMillan on August 17, 2012 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Because when you go hard sometimes you get screwed...

Teigdal is one of the best sections I've run in norway. Lots of rapids, drops and sick slides. Not further than 30 min from Voss is my favorite one so far and got a lot of potential... still a super stout first D in there for the ones who want to go big and doesn't care about landing on a few rocks!…

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Added by Aniol Serrasolses on July 20, 2012 at 8:45am — No Comments

US Freestyle Point Series Locations announced!

Paddlers to Travel from East to West, Racking up Points to be Champs

Year II Brings Two Times Last Year’s Event Lineup

Takoma Park, MD (February 17, 2011) USA Freestyle Kayaking has announced its lineup of whitewater freestyle competitions events comprising the 2011 USAFK Freestyle Point Series. Competitors will warm up at the Alabama Mountain Games in March and accumulate points to…

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Added by Andrew Holcombe on February 24, 2011 at 4:51pm — No Comments

Riders of the Year Awards

The Rider of the Year awards are the brainchild of Patrick Camblin. In his words "The goal of these annual awards is simply to showcase the incredible things that are done in our sport each year and highlight the people doing them. With your participation we have an international platform to…

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Added by Andrew Holcombe on March 15, 2010 at 2:28pm — No Comments

WCU Demo Day!

Come on out this Saturday and try your hand at some freestyle, demo a few kayaks, and maybe even race in a ducky race! Western Carolina University is putting on their annual demo day festivities at the Eternity (the Slab for you old schoolers) Hole near Cullowhee, NC. Hope to see you there!…