Official world rafting governing body
This year many of us will have the privilege of travelling to Brasil, the home of the samba! With our R4 World Rafting Champs happening there we should be learning about this typical Brasilian dance. “Samba is a Brazilian dance and musical genre originating in Bahia, Brazil, and with its roots in Rio de Janeiro and Africa via the West African slave trade
There are two Euro Champs this year – R4 and R6. In previous years there has been only one with both R4 and R6 together. But with the new divisions of U19, U23 and Masters this would have meant that each country could send 32 teams to the Euro Champs (4 divisions x men and
The Oregon Rafting Team (ORT) of the USA is a unique team and they are much more than just a competitive team. They also engage in volunteer work which includes river cleanups, search and rescue missions, as well as coordinating events. Their trademark has become shooting waterfalls and their adventures takes our breath away. Many admire them and imagine that one
Our President, Joe Willie Jones, has recently been honoured by being selected as a member of the Academy of the World Paddle Awards (WPA). He’ll be working with a group of some of the greatest living legends in paddlesports, to vote for the ‘best of the best’ around the globe in 17 different paddlesports categories. The
The best men’s team that Serbia has had so far is Klub ekstremnih sportova “VIR” from Pancevo. This crew is made up of Miroslav and Branislav Barasević (brothers), Nenad Miković, Miloš Petrović, Nenad Tomić, Jovan Njagul and Dragan Kovacević . The part of the Danube River on which they paddle is not wild water, so the whole team were flat water canoeists and most of
Iran, also known as Persia, is home to one of the world’s oldest civilizations. It’s a country in Western Asia surrounded by Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Caspian Sea, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Persian Gulf and gulf of Oman with over 77 million inhabitants. Iran is the world’s 17th most populous nation and the 19th largest country in the world. Its area
Here are some interesting things from the World Rafting Champs 2013 … In the Russian U19 team some of the paddlers were selected from and orphanage and given the opportunity to train up to be raft racers – their hard work and dedication paid off! They’re the U19 World Rafting Champions! Slovakian Open Women have
Adventure is in our genes. What is it that makes us love being on the edge, pushing ourselves to our limits, to our extremes? DRD4 is a gene which detects dopamine in our brains and that chemical is associated with the feeling of reward. But DRD4 has a variant in the -521 C/T polymorphism. Those
The World Anti Doping Agency ( WADA) has adopted new international anti doping rules and regulations (The WADA Code), which will be initiated on 1 January 2015. The Code sets out the international rules on doping and apply to competitive athletes in all parts of the world. WADAs approach on changing the rules is the