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New Dagger Logo Apparel Now Available!!

New, just-announced Dagger comfort and performance apparel is now available.

Get this Dagger-brand apparel by visiting your local Dagger kayaks retailer, or shop online at our store! Click a link below for more details on our different products.







Quality and comfortable shirts for days both on and off the river.

Available in 5 sizes: SM, MD, LG, XL, & XXL (while supplies last).



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Added by Craig Ray on March 29, 2011 at 11:42am — No Comments

Support First Descents and Win a Chance at a Dagger Boat!







CONTEST: Team FD Challenge



DETAILS: Open to all Team FD members.

The Team FD member who raises the most money during the month of November is eligible to…
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Added by Craig Ray on November 2, 2010 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Register for the 2010 Green Race or See Who's Competing This Year

The links have been posted for the 2010 Green River Race! Be sure to register if you're ready for the battle, or check out who's currently registered and what boat they will be paddling.







Registration link here - http://www.boatingbeta.com/race/green_registration…



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Added by Craig Ray on October 12, 2010 at 10:24am — No Comments

We Get Emails - Dagger Axiom Review

We love it when customers take the time to randomly send us their feedback on our boats! Check out this one we received yesterday from Brian on the Dagger Axiom. While we get a lot of reviews for new paddlers loving the boat, we also find that old hands at the sport are loving it as well.



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Just test paddled an Axiom 8.5 I'm a 52 year old intermediate paddler and all I can say is- wow! I will be picking one up. For us mere mortals, there was nothing this boat did not do… Continue

Added by Craig Ray on October 7, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

Canoe & Kayak UK Dagger Axiom Review - It's "The Real Deal"

We've been proud of the loud, excited feedback we've gotten since the launch of the Dagger Axiom series. Here's the latest praise from one of Britain's largest paddling publications.





"...but the Axiom is the real deal, it really is great at everything and that’s going to make it a very attractive option for those who don’t want a quiver of expensive plastic stacked in the garage and are looking for that one-boat-does-it-all package.… Continue

Added by Craig Ray on September 23, 2010 at 2:30pm — No Comments

UK Mail Online - Feminism Meets Paddle Power

(Christie far left)



Team Dagger's Christie Glissmeyer was recently featured in a recent UK article on daredevil ladies who are mild-mannered workers by day, but are dropping some of the world's craziest waterfalls by night.



Jump on over to check out the very cool article with a…
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Added by Craig Ray on June 10, 2010 at 9:05am — 1 Comment

Tao Berman Q + A: Heroes Article on Wide World (UK)

Check out this great Q+A with Tao Berman from Wide World in Britain!







Here's an excerpt



You ran for political office a couple of years ago as a Democrat. Tell me about that and whether you have any further political aspirations?



I've always been interested in politics and thought at some point I may run but I didn't expect… Continue

Added by Craig Ray on June 1, 2010 at 11:52am — No Comments

Win a Dagger Axis and Paddle for Cancer

Brad Ludden's First Descents program and retailer Outdoor Play have teamed up to raise money for a great cause. Get involved and you can also win a chance at a Dagger Axis 10.5 kayak!



See details below



The event is held at the Hood River Waterfront Park in downtown Hood River, Oregon.







http://www.outdoorplay.com/PaddleForCancer



he Paddle… Continue

Added by Craig Ray on May 19, 2010 at 8:53am — No Comments

Pat Keller Bio Video from LVM

From Lunch Video Magazine - Pat Keller has been on the river since he was 3 years old. A two time Green Race Winner, Teva Mountain Games Champion, and all around multi-sport athlete Pat is easily argued as one of the best paddlers in the world. This is an action packed segment with Pat showing us how it is done. Available in full on LVM #33.



Pat Keller Pro Spotlight from Lunch Video…

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Added by Craig Ray on March 30, 2010 at 11:31am — 2 Comments

Dream Result Intro Available to View Online

The new, and highly-touted Dream Result trailer (a collaboration from Team Dagger's Rush Sturges and Tyler Bradt) is now available for viewing online. Check it out here and order it from… Continue

Added by Craig Ray on March 18, 2010 at 9:39am — 1 Comment

Photos from the Dream Result Premiere in Dublin!

Check out this blog post forwarded over by Rush Sturges from the Dream Result World Tour kickoff.



Last night The Great Outdoors put on a great show – They hosted the launch of The Dream Result Movie. I haven’t seen so many paddlers in the one place, so far away from water in quite a while (ps, WHERE the hell is all the water?). If you weren’t there you can see the trailer at the bottom of…

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Added by Craig Ray on March 16, 2010 at 2:02pm — No Comments

Dream Result Big Thumbs Up Review at Canoe & Kayak

Check out an awesome review of the latest film by Rush and Tyler, Dream Result, from Canoe & Kayak Magazine. Here's an excerpt:



If for some reason you’ve become jaded to high definition kayak movies since the fall of the Teton Gravity Research flicks, then I beg, no I plead, that you see Rush Sturges’ and Tyler Bradt’s Dream Result, already a winner of Germany’s Rosenheim Kayaking Film Festival.





This movie…

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Added by Craig Ray on March 9, 2010 at 11:30am — No Comments

Nomad 8.1 Review from Fraser Valley

Check out a very informative review from the great white north at Fraser Valley Whitewater. Click below to read the full blog post.

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Nomad: People who have no fixed home and move according to the seasons from place to place in search of food, water, and grazing…

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Added by Craig Ray on March 4, 2010 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Dream Result Takes Rosenheim Paddling Film Festival

Just received this update email from Rush Sturges...the Dream Result premiere has been huge.



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We just won the Rosenheim Paddling Film Festival last night. This is the biggest kayaking film festival in Europe. We had an attendance of 1,000 people! Biggest year they have ever had...



Dream Result also premiered… Continue

Added by Craig Ray on March 1, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments

Rapid Magazine Reviews the Dagger Axiom Whitewater Series





Be sure to pick up the Spring 2010 issue of Rapid Magazine, where they do an in-depth review on Dagger's Axiom series and interview boat

designer Snowy Robertson.



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"The result is a boat that paddles like a river runner with the fat trimmed off and surfs like a playboat with nitrous in the trunk."





Check out the hi-quality scan of the Axiom article "Genetically… Continue

Added by Craig Ray on February 16, 2010 at 1:24pm — No Comments

Reel Paddling Film Festival Winners Announced

Rapid media released the Reel Paddling Film Festival Award Winners today, check them out! Congratulations to everyone who participated and the winners. With the largest premiere audience in festival history and a great set of films, it looks like the festival will continue to grow in prominence year after year.



REEL PADDLING FILM FESTIVAL—WINNERS!!!



PALMER RAPIDS, ON, FEBRUARY 12, 2010 – The 5th annual Reel Paddling Film… Continue

Added by Craig Ray on February 12, 2010 at 3:51pm — No Comments

Review of the Dagger Mamba

Dagger’s Mamba series of kayaks have generally been classified as river runners. Although I spent…

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Added by Craig Ray on February 10, 2010 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Holcombe is Millrace Massacre and Iceman Champ

Results are posted up over at BoaterTalk for the recent Millrace Massacre and Iceman Championships on the Saluda River in Columbia. Team Dagger Manager Andrew Holcombe came out on top in both competitions.



Posted over at BoaterTalk



..Saturday we set a few records with the most racers ever in the Massacre (42), the coldest race on record, as well as the highest water level for the race. We are hoping that we don't have the mix up with the level again anytime… Continue

Added by Craig Ray on January 14, 2010 at 5:38pm — No Comments

Dagger Axis Review at Colorado Kayak Supply

If you're in the market for that all-water kayak that does a little bit of everything, but does it all well, check out the new 2010 Dagger Axis series. We designed the boat as something of a hybrid, but gave it options to push the performance limits at each end of flatwater and moving water so that it's a boat that grows with you.



CKS reviewed it recently over on their blog, and they did a good job putting the Axis to the test doing what we said it will do. Find out how it performed,… Continue

Added by Craig Ray on January 12, 2010 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Dagger Wishes Rush Sturges a Speedy Recovery!

As his sponsor and as his friends, all of us at Dagger wish Rush Sturges a speedy recovery. Rush sustained an injury while running Bonito Falls (80-feet) in Argentina.



According to an email from Rush, who is still in South America, he broke his back, but expects a full recovery. “Luckily, it’s not a bad break and it did not affect my nervous system.” He expects three to four months of rehabilitation and voiced his intention to come back even stronger.



Anyone who knows Rush… Continue

Added by Craig Ray on December 15, 2009 at 4:01pm — No Comments

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