All Blog Posts Tagged 'Riverboarding' (4)

This week has been an exciting one for me…

We have some friends and their families visiting here from France. I first met Raphael over the Internet about 7 or 8 years ago in his capacity as President of RIPH , the International Governing Body for the Sport of Hydrospeeding / Riverboarding, which I took up in 2001.

Raphael was tireless in the assistance he gave me to get started with a sport which, it turned out, I was the first person to…

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Swim Team of Placentia (STOP) senior girls experienced riverboarding for the first time this Father's Day weekend. Coach Devon Ames brought 10 of his senior, 15-18year old girl swimmers to the Kern for a day of riverboarding.



What a great experience for all involved: I had the time of my life teaching the most fit, strong, prepared, tough group of newbies I have ever met; Coach Devon and the girls had a team and confidence-building, exciting day on the beautiful Kern!…

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It didn't take too long to figure out how Josh was feeling in the morning. We could hear it from down the hallway. But he was determined to go with us, even if not riverboarding.



We found the road to the Florida section put-in. There was a raft exiting and a couple vans there. It would be a short, fast & furious three miles. The water was murky and brown and about 3 grand higher than when we'd run a longer section in… Continue

Today we ran the upper upper Pacuare. Luis was our shuttle driver, and asked where Kevin and Alex were. Indeed. Work and school. Why do these have to interfere?



We were thinking of running the Reventazon, but I showed the video from the last trip to Peter C and he got a little on edge about the dirtiness of the water. So we went to where we knew the water would be clean.



The bridge to the higher put-in was being worked on, but there was just II-III stuff up there. The… Continue