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Cedar River Gates Whitewater Training is Back

I spent Saturday morning at the slalom gates at the Cedar River alongside Landsburg Park, thanks to slalom kayaker Joey Yeaple who organized an all-welcome event to get people working on technical skills. It sounds like this is going to be a monthly event, taking place at 10 a.m. on the first Saturday of the […]

Why Kayak Slalom Skills Make You a Better Creekboater

Here’s a sweet video of whitewater slalom kayaker Campbell Walsh in 2009 in Great Britain, notice the side to side ferry moves using a wave hole starting at around .10, it’s a gorgeous example of boat handling skills and shows you why the kind of techniques that paddlers learn by practicing slalom can give you […]

Video: Kayak Stroke Tutorial from Michele Ramazza

This is a really in-depth, well explained video tutorial on the kayaking forward stroke by Italian slalom and whitewater paddler Michele Ramazza. If the forward stroke sounds like the simplest of things, keep in mind that people make hour-long videos and write actual books about the forward stroke. Doing it well is not actually all […]

2012 Cedar River Whitewater Races Are this Weekend

[singlepic id=124 w=320 h=240 float=left]Every year the League of Northwest Whitewater Racers holds a two-day slalom event on the Cedar River at Landsburg, about 15 minutes south of Issaquah. This year the races are March 17 and 18, with the slalom course open for practice all day Saturday, two downriver races on Saturday, and the […]

Whitewater Kayaking Slalom Technique How-To Videos

As usual, after watching videos of my friends creeking Class V, I went searching for some instructional videos on kayaking slalom technique because I know I’m weak in the eddy-catching / boat control department. After plugging around for a while I finally found this awesome site called Canoe Slalom Technique that has a big section […]

Video: Whitewater Kayak Slalom Training for Beijing Olympics

I was surfing around this evening looking for videos that might give some pointers on whitewater kayaking slalom technique and came across this one showing Eoin Rheinisch, Dave Ford, James Cartwright, Campbell Walsh, and Laura Blakeman training for the Canoe Slalom Olympic Test Event in Beijing 2007. [HTML1] I can’t say someone like me can […]

Northwest Whitewater Races at Cedar River Gates

Back in early April 2009 the Northwest Whitewater Racers held the WKC Cedar River Race at the Cedar River Gates near Landsburg, WA. I stopped by and took some photos before the event while people were warming up. (I’ve tagged this post with the names of the people whose names I recognize from the WKC […]