Official world rafting governing body
Nick Harding | Sportscene – In a gig-venue and shop named The Store near Okere Falls, Rotorua, New Zealand, SPORTSCENE Director Rob has a morning coffee with extreme paddling poster-boy Sam Sutton. A little bit on Sam before we get into his dual personalities. The Adidas Sickline extreme kayak triple World Champion (2010, 2011, 2012) was born a
The Red Lady Raft Racers, made up from a team of professional river guides, was grown in the Arkansas Valley, USA. They are real ambassadors for their sport, a young team with big ambitions, and will spend their winter training on the Colorado River to compete in the National Selections in 2013. The stakes are
Rafters doing training and competitions indoors?! If you think this sounds unusual and impossible, then read on …. Serbia have recently come up with the idea of a rafting ergometer (exercise machine which can measure the amount of work performed when exercising on it) and they have added competitions to it as well. In an
From the December issue of Adventure magazine: Wet and Wild, a look back at the Pre-Worlds at Labour Weekend and a look forward to the 2013 Worlds…4-page feature… Photos by Graeme Murray and Alan Ofsoski (big thanks again to the guys for coming out and doing the mahi for the love)… words by Graeme Simpson …. take a look at full
The final 2012 R4 Euro Cup event was held in Augsburg, Germany, recently. This was the final event in the series and sees 2012 as a very successful year for Germany. They were crowned the 2012 R6 Euro Champions and now Team Bavaria RTA 1, Augsburg have been crowned the R4 Euro Cup champions. Not only
The International Rafting Federation delivers the first certified carbon neutral World Sports Event with the Costa Rica 2011 World Rafting Championships. This article explains how they did it. A model for the world. Costa Rica raises the bar in global sustainable environmental initiatives once again. The World Rafting Championships (WRC), held October 4-11, 2011 in
The Euro Cup R6 events have now concluded for the year, with the last event being Trnavka in Czech. The first event in the series, which was to be in Slovenia, had to be cancelled due to lack of water, but all other events ran well. Team Kula Zagreb won the R6 Euro Cup Series
Sportscene has produced some great videos once again of the racing action. Day 1 – Sprint and H2H Doing the Time Trial on the Kaituna with Japan Going down the Slalom course with the Czechs Day 3 – Downriver
Three exciting days of white water rafting action ended on the Rangitaiki river, south of Rotorua, on Sunday afternoon. Selection was on the the line for the Kiwi crews for the IRF White Water Rafting Championships in Rotorua and Kawerau, November 13 to 24, 2013, so there was lot at stake. Team Teikei Japan won the