Live Coverage of US Freestyle Team Trials

for live coverage of the event this Saturday go to www.worldkayak.com


Hey y'all, been hanging out here in Colorado. I'll be sure to get you some photos and video of the wave soon, but for now I have to get back to training.

The Biggest Little City: Taking Reno by Storm

I kicked off my freestyle tour this past weekend at Reno Riverfest. My journey started in Hot Springs, NC with about the best send-off for which a person could ask. The send-off? French Broad River Festival. The festival was amazing. I was camped with Paul and Peter Pinholster of Eagle's Nest Outfitters (ENO) boy do they know how to rock a festival. Friday night's highlight certainly had to be the jam session that took place late night at our campsite. There must have been over 200 people that made there way through as the drums and guitars lured them our way. The rest of the festival was great.

I headed out Sunday afternoon for St Louis, to pick my sister up at the airport. From there we drove to green river Wyoming to check out there new whitewater park for a day. Unfortunately, it was still under construction, so on to Reno!

The Reno whitewater park is fantastic! It has multiple great surfing holes, especially at the water levels we had this past week. Media coverage of the event can be found at www.worldkayak.com. My buddy, Chris Wing, of h2odreams.com and I provided the video footage and pictures.

I was the only open boater (and C-boater for that matter) registered for the event. It wouldn't have mattered though, anyway because I would have dominated. I was having terrible training rides all week, but when it came time for my scoring run, I tore it up. righty cartwheels, lefty cartwheels, flat spins (potentially a clean spin), and even almost hit a McNasty and Loop (the hole was to shallow so I kept bottoming out in hindsite I should have been throwing more toward the river left side of the hole where it was deeper).


Watch for me at the end of the video. "I think that was actually one of the better OC-1 rides I've seen in my life" -Announcer