A Year of Awesome Opportunities by Emily Jackson | May 6, 2017 | 2015 Zen, 2016 Rock Star Competition, Creeking, Family Zone, Playboating, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesA Year of Awesome Opportunities! Today I am writing from the Sequoia National Forest- we are parked at the take out of Brush Creek. A Creek I ran 12 years ago but not since! My husband Nick and I have two kids and two dogs packed into my Sprinter RV, and a trailer...
Cuyahoga Fall Race by teamjk | Apr 29, 2017 | 2015 Zen, Creeking, Event Coverage, Events, Whitewater, Wrap Ups, WW DisciplinesA couple weeks ago, my friend and fellow Team JK member, Chad Christopher, asked me if I wanted to go to a whitewater race in Ohio. My initial response was, “There is whitewater in Ohio???”. As we found out, YES! There IS actually phenomenal whitewater and even better...
Truck Life Tour Episode 4: Cheoah and Nantahala Outdoor Centre. by sethashworth | Apr 18, 2017 | 2015 Zen, 2016 Rock Star Competition, Creeking, Media, Playboating, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesTime spent in the Columbus whitewater park in Georgia, was super enjoyable but the weekend brought a release of a so called “South East Classic” the Cheoah river. So Brooke and I loaded up her #TruckLifeTour truck and rolled out of the car park/Gpysy camp we had...
Christmas in July by teamjk | Mar 31, 2017 | 2015 Zen, 2016 Rock Star Competition, Creeking, Playboating, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesOver the winter of 2015 – 2016 I outgrew my Jackson Kayak Shooting Star, I was so big for it, I was practically sinking it. Though the smaller boat made it easier to control my tricks and it gave me more power, it also took away all of my buoyancy and air. So it...
Why Bigger ISN’T Always Better by Anna Bruno | Mar 11, 2017 | 2015 Zen, 2016 Rock Star Competition, Creeking, Reviews, rivers, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesLast year, my small Karma felt too small for me, especially on bigger volume rivers multidays and while racing. Often, it felt like my stern would catch and sub-out, or that my boat was slower than my competitors. Before heading to California last spring, I made the...
Double Drop Race _ Galway by teamjk | Feb 26, 2017 | 2015 Zen, Uncategorized, WhitewaterDouble drop is located in the centre of Galway city, on one of the canals joining the upper to the lower Corrib. Until last year, no one really thought about running it. Last summer, Danny O’Brien and Dave McClure posted a video a video on facebook of them...
Whitewater Kayaking: A Four Season Sport by Tom Potter | Jan 27, 2017 | 2015 Zen, Creeking, rivers, Video, Whitewater, WW DisciplinesI just had this article published in The Wenatchee World newspaper as well as www.wenatcheeoutdoors.org. Check it out!! When I started kayaking in 2009, the thought of traveling down a river strapped into a kayak was terrifying. However, like anything in life, after...
How much can you pack into one year with a broken wing? by Jezz | Jan 1, 2017 | 2015 Zen, 2016 Rock Star Competition, Australia, Creeking, Family Zone, Internationalisation, JK Little Shredders, Reviews, River Running, rivers, Trip Reports, Trips, Whitewater, Wrap Ups, WW DisciplinesHow much can you pack into one year with a broken wing? So this year saw me have a whole lot of firsts, the biggest of which was getting married to my best friend Claire. We decided that a normal wedding was never going to do, so with a spur of the moment decision we...
Paddling the Zen in Western China by JK Fans | Jul 31, 2014 | 2014 Karma Unlimited, WhitewaterThe Dulong River is a very special pIace. Located on the far edge of Yunnan Province, China, it was until recently only accessible for 6 months out of the year, due to the high mountains that isolate it from the rest of the world. The road into the Dulong is...
North Fork Payette Winter Boating in the ZEN 55 by Hayden Voorhees | Apr 7, 2014 | United States, Whitewater This year we got decent snow pack in Idaho, so as the snow starts to melt the rivers will start to rise and we should have good flows this summer for the the North Fork Championships and the Payette River Games in June. Here is an edit that my friend Shane...
Zen v. Karma: Dueling Kayaks on the Chattooga River by Zach Fraysier | Mar 23, 2014 | Blogroll, Creeking, Featured Post, jacksonkayak.com, JK Team Posts, River Running, Team JK, Video, WhitewaterThe Chattooga River has been the classic whitewater testing ground for 40 years. Watch the Jackson Kayak Zen and Karma duel it out on the river. Video Link: Dueling on the Chattooga: Jackson Kayak Zen v Karma...
Jackson Zen 75- Surf Machine! by Ben Morton | Mar 5, 2014 | United States, Whitewater A few days ago I had the pleasure of heading out to the Clackamas River near Portland, OR. Locals told me that the water level was good for “long boat surfing”, so with that being said I grabbed the 2014 Jackson Zen 75. The section of the Clackamas...
