Adidas sickline 2011

Eric Deguil at SicklineCette année semble me porter sous l’étoile de: “la guigne” !

Après mes trois mois de corset, me voilà opéré en urgence ce 15 aôut pour un abcès au talon d’Achille… Vive l’eau du gave de Pau et sa pollution. Presque trois semaines plus tard et nombre de séances de musculation pour me calmer les nerfs j’étais de nouveau sur l’eau et au travail. Seulement, c’était sans compter sur les effets indésirables des antibiotiques qui ont fini de perturber  mon entrainement et ma préparation pour la Sickline.

Tales from Teva: Part 2 Homestake

Homestake Creek race attracts people from all over the world. It’s the opportunity to gauge yourself with the best paddlers in the sport. Olympians, future Olympians, World Champs, world cup slalom kayakers, and even the locals all show up to put down their best two runs. Racers come for the $2,000 cash prize, the fame, the american women, or just for the love of competition. This year was some of the tightest competition I’ve ever seen in kayak racing. No one person stood out as the obvious choice for the leader. The flow was around 100 cfs making it just pushy enough to bounce off some rocks and not enough to make it any cleaner. Keeping your kayak up to speed was key with so many direction changes and places to accelerate all over the course.

Tales from Teva: Part 1

After the PaddleFest weekend we grabbed Ted Keyes, the Liquidlogic rep for the western U.S. and routed a lap down Pine Creek to cool down from our first weekend of Colorado sun. I grabbed a Remix 79 from his truck and we all followed down in close Team Liquidlogic style. Such a beautiful river and great way to end the weekend of fun.

Whitewater Grand Prix Updates 11-14 BFTV

Bomb Flow Video MagazineHere are the last 4 videos of the BFTV Grand Prix saga! They took us a lot of work to put together and we are proud of them….NOT. It was pure good times, a lot of work, but its what we love doin’. Hope you guys all enjoyed the content, music, and style we put forth here on these edits. The Grand Prix was one of the best and most fun things me and my kayak have ever been a part of…Millions of thanks top Pat Cambin and Julie who made this event possible. All the people who came together and competed or helped out…it was a huge team effort and all in all we killed it! Hopefully I will be invited back for next years comp and hopefully I will bring some more heat in my play boat. I guess that means I need to actually go play boating. I was throughly impressed with what I saw coming from the top guys in the play world…crazy air and control! They are really taking it to the next level out there…