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#AreYouReady for IRFWRC Argentina! Argentina organisers have launched a website for the WRC R4 2018 which they will host from November 4-10 this year. Here you will find everything you need to plan your trip, as well as a tourist guide of the area. Take advantage of this fantastic opportunity to reward yourself with a tour of
With the new H2H format being introduced there is an option for organisers to choose what direction the rafts will be facing at the start. This option was included as sometimes the usual method of pointing the rafts downstream is harder to set up exactly evenly. Sometimes, as at WC Yushu in China in 2016,
By Mark Hirst I am commonly advised from reliable sources that British kayaker Peter Knowles introduced throwbags to the market on a wide scale with his green slime throwbags back in the 1980s. Before this time people made their own throwbags ranging from rope stored in an empty plastic bottle to a tennis ball with
The world of rafting reals in shock at the sudden loss of well renown rafter, Andrew Mazurkiewicz, better known to most as Maz. Maz passed away in Cairns Base Hospital on Sunday 8th of April 2018, failing to recover consciousness after he was taken off life support. “The shock of Maz’s sudden acute illness and rapid
The first complete guidebook about Altai whitewater for kayakers and rafters by Anton Sveshnikov has now being brought out in English! In this Whitewater Altai guidebook you can find all you need to make your kayak or raft trip in this Russian region: Basic information about region: geography, climate, ethnography, history Valuable information for travellers: getting to,
A Judges course will be run during the 2018 Euro Rafting Championship in Slovakia. Anyone keen to do the course should email IRF Admin. The details are: Dates: 2 – 7 July (same dates as the ERC) Place: Event Headquarters, ERC, Slovakia Cost: $US30 to be paid to Instructor on the first day of the course. This
Tully gears up to host world-class event in 2019 The Queensland Government has thrown its support behind the 2019 International Rafting Federation’s World Rafting Championships on the Tully River. Tourism and Events Queensland (TEQ) will be working in partnership with the Australian Rafting Federation on the world-class event which is forecast to bring hundreds of
During the fall season of 2018 Lapin Koskikoulu and Paddle Nepal have teamed up to run their first Himalayan River Guide Training Academy. The course will run over 2 months and is open to anybody wishing to travel & explore the rivers of Nepal and learn to become a professional river guide at the same
The racing calendar is filling up quickly with some great events on the horizon: In 10 days time (9 – 11 March) it is the inaugural International Women’s Day Raft Race which is open to women’s teams only. Read more – What’s the point in promoting women in paddlesports? Dracula will be making his first IRF EC