Clear Water River Festival

hay guys!
got some pics of of the recent clearwater river festival. was a blast and a big shout out must go to the organiser ben earl for a wikid event....thanks bro.
also a big shout out to fluid for havin some kick arse fast boats!!!

Festival check in
Ben and myself waiting for the wave....NOTICE...smaller que's than worlds!!
Pistol Flip
smoking the finalsthe fluid PIMP-ARSE ride!!

(no Gas-Guzzling motor home....jk!)

results as follows:
womens freestyle: kim ward (fluid)
womens DR: Kim ward ("")

mens freestyle: Ben earl ("")
mens DR: Adrian ("")


nice one team!

You guys HAVE to get up that way for next season...the river is AWSOME!!!

huckin in whistler...

So, we just got to days off work. So me and jimmy thought we would take the lady's shopping in whistler.....

Boofin..

Jimmy huckin
walkin in, choo-choooooo
and launch...ak
wavewheel.. ak
boof...ak


thanks for the pics ladies!!!

mags and sheree

Norrish creek...working for the man...

welcome back! sorry to have been out of order so long. computer motherboards seem to be very temporary things!!!

well after about 6 weeks back at work paying the bills, i teamed up with kim ward from gravity distribution (fluids BC dealer) for a mission down the norrish creek. The norrish is a clean grade 4 creek situited just outside abbortsford. pictures are worth 1000 words so ill leave you with a million words. there are also some pics of upper silver hope at high spring runoff. the lower appears to have changed due to a landslide so there is a first decent to be done on 4 linked drops.- watch this space...

Kim Ward dropping the slide on the Norrish
riding the nose...
The Crew
Silver hope PUMPING with water (note...this is a normally bony drop!)
Lining up the ledge and ramp into the george...silver hope
from left. Kim ward....james thorpe (wedged) and ben earl in the back of kiwi jimmy's van
Norish creek 'crux'
Portage 1 of 2

peace out

day off!

so, the chilliwack is now pumping with spring run-off and we are portaging clients around the big rapid tamahi. Its the best time of the rafting season but it has been very busy. i finally got a full day off to kick around the cabin at cultus lake. russel and i finally pulled out the old windsurfer and put it together.

i think pink suits me!

peace out: Adrian

back to work.... :-(

well after the worlds im back working at HYAK river rafting in BC. it good to have money again

...its nice...i like

Freestyle Kayaking Worlds- Wrap up

Australian Team Final Placings:

Mens:

11 Anthony Yap

53 Russ Boza

54 Sean Boz

61 Adrian Kiernan

65 Lachie Carracher

Womens

2 Tanya Foux

24 Sandy Diciero

Juniors

8th Liam Corr

10th James Rowlinson

28 Bryce Gibson

Congratulations to the winners of their devisions!

1st Ruth Gorden

1st Eric Jackson

1st Even Garcia (jr)

1st Emily Jackson (jr)

1st Dan Burke (c1)

Anthony yap (Adrian Kiernan)
Tanya Foux (Adrian Kiernan)

RESULTS:

Junior

1st Dane Jackson (USA)

4th Liam (AUS)

9th James (AUS)

Womens

1st Ruth Gorden

2nd Tanya Foux

Open Mens
1st Nick troutman
.................
11th Anthony Yap
(unfortunatly yappa had a very unluckey few rides and is now drinking beer!)

Bryce
James
Liam

Pics By Maggie Crocker

Day 1 Open Mens on Bussy!

Well official procedings kicked of today with all the open mens competitors and OC1 getting their first rides done. You were allowed 1 practice ride and then 4 competition rides. The highest two rides are scored. For many competitors their training ride was their 5th ever time on bussy (for 5-paddlers it was their first ever time!). For most of the North-Americans however, it became what a halfpipe is to skiiers, a huge bowl and ramp with the ability to launch massive air. The punishment for failing however was the beating of your life. All the aussie paddlers put up a good showing but Anthony yap however taking the day throwing a MASSIVE kay-y and panam's left and right to put him in the top 5 with 132.67 The winning ride however was that of Nick Troutman with a huge 185.00

Lachie waiting in the eddy for his first ride....
Sean Boz getting the critical right blunt on a green bussy
anthony yap doing somthing big and cool..... (he is pretty much arial & inverted in every photo!)
Lachie Looking into the bussy bowl
Pulling the best shuv-it you have EVER seen...lol

Photo's by Maggie Crocker

World Freestyle Kayaking Opening Ceremony.

Beginning to assemble before marching into the opening ceremony

Aussie and Cunuck Team Chants...getting fired up! A drink or 40 after the opening ceremony!

Trying to sleep with the head judge...Emily Wall (GBR)!

Bus Eater Training Pics!

Tanya Foax...Laying it down for the other ladies.

Team Entropy Gear, Jon Best...small pan-am (all moves must be landed totally flat)
Kelsey Thompson...pam-srew (if you land on your edge...you die)

Bus eater is in...and its HUGE! The air up for grabs is crazy. with 3ft available just from falling of the crest of the wave...and the beat-down...oh the beat-down! Its really quite hard to use and for most of the competitors it is the first time they have surfed the wave. This provided for some quite entertaining training runs with all competitors getting 3 or 4 rides before competition tomorrow. That meant that with no idea of where the sweet spot on the wave is, you would fly down the face, pop the biggest move possible and hope you landed near the wave! many people simply landing back near the tow-line or in my case, in the pit...before being swollowed by the seam between mini and big bus.

Adrian Kiernan

I made it up at 5am today to get a morning surf in on an extremely low leval bussy (big hole!). Arriving in the eddy there were over 20boaters there to meet me. I missed the rope once and through maybe 4-moves before being swollowed by a angry bussy surge on my second ride...ouch. It was now 7:45 and official training started @ 8. There were now over 35boaters in the eddy....and 20 on the bank waiting for their training slot!!!

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Anthony Yap
Liam is a rubbish boater......

Pics By Maggie Crocker