Kokatat continues their support of the HTTD series for a third season!
Kokatat has stepped up to the plate for their third season with the World Kayak HTTD series. Kokatat is known for their amazing quality dry gear. They are an awesome group of paddlers located in northern California who have a true passion for the sport. Look for some seekers headed to a throwdown event near you. There are some exciting announcements coming from Kokatat for our Championship event at NOC later this fall. Make sure to support this great company by checking out their gear at your local retailer.
Later ; Colin
Stonyboater Paddle Wax signs on for a second season as a HTTD partner!
I am excited to announce that Stonyboater Paddle Wax has stepped up to the pate to sponsor the World Kayak Hometown Throwdown series for a second year. Last season a number of you got the opportunity to experience a kung fu grip on your paddle of choice, courtesy of Jason Rigby. Not only is Jason the owner of Stonyboater Paddle Wax, but he is also the Western PA World Kayak Ambassador. As the WK ambassador he is coming on strong this season. He is piloting our new Creek Race component to the event series. He even managed to get some great media coverage of his last event. Check it out here in his region http://regions.worldkayak.com/confluence-ohiopyle/. Make sure you check out the Stonyboater Paddle Wax website at www.stonyboater.com
Later ; Colin
September’s winner of the WK get registered contest is……………
David Goodwin.
Thanks to everyone who got registered and supported WK this throwdown season. Look for more cool contests and river events to come next season. We will finish off this season with two great events at Gauley Festival. Our first timers event will be in full effect and we will have a great throwdown on the lower Gauley that will be video judged at the Chaco booth during the festival. Make sure you sing up to participate for this event, that has the richest prize purse of the season.
Later ; Colin
World Kayak and Partners Announce the 2011 Blogging Contest Series
Each year our sponsoring partners come to our paddling communities with more and more reasons to keep us stoked about paddling. As a result our sport has shown more growth than ever before… OIA shows Whitewater Kayaking as the third fastest growing outdoors sport in America! It is because of the generousity and support of our partners that enables us to encourage participation in a growing number of communities across the globe… for this, we say THANK YOU!
Just when we think things cannot get any better, our amazing partners notch it up once again! This time with a series of prizes encouraging our community spirit on the web! World Kayak believes that showing the outside world our personalities is key to successful growth. The “I wanna paddle with them” factor is very important as a draw to our lifestyle. Blog posts and stories on the web tend to lend to this kind of attraction. World Kayak and its partners (Kokatat, Immersion Research, Chaco, Shred Ready, Mountain Khakis, Jackson Kayak, Smith Optics and Astral Bouyancy have set up a series of fun ‘story posting’ contests aimed at getting our amazing lifestyle out there for all to see! From laughing about some of our ‘unique paddling fashion’ to our weirdest helmets, to swims and giving them glimpses of our take out parties and those who have inspired us along the way in our c0mmunities this contest series will show the expanse of our fun, free and unique culture.
Join us, post up a story for each of our contests or just one… get your friends involved… most of all… show the non-paddling folks JUST how much fun we have!
A year in review: 2010 was great 2011 will be even better!
A new season is starting in the Seaway Valley and World Kayak is right there making sure that paddlers will have events to participate in.
2010 was a great year for us and we saw a lot of new paddlers step up to our friendly competitive arena. 2011 will be even better!
3 freestyle events and 3 survivors (Boater-cross format) are what you will see in Valleyfield Quebec at the Riviere St-Charles this year. You will be able to compete , challenge your friend and yourself. For those who wish to step it up a bit more WK is implementing a ranking system (more to come on that program soon).
In the mean time enjoy the short video by Zachary Zwanenburg. The video and the images speak for themselves:
Click here to view the embedded video.
See you on the river,
Robert Zwanenburg
www.cornwallwhitewater.com
