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Post by fred on Sept 1, 2013 12:43:53 GMT -5
There is a nice article on the online BDN about Kailey Schmidt training for the US wildwater championships. Jeff--you ought to get her to talk with Robert Lang at next year's Kenduskeag. This winningest paddler at the Kenduskeag currently holds the course record and paddles wildwater kayaks--several times the Canadian national champ. He competed for Canada at the Wildwater Worlds three or four times. He has a wealth of knowledge and would be a good person to talk to about advice on how to train, etc. for such a style of racing. And I have a book she might find interesting. It's called The Danger Zone, and is about wildwater racing (all forms) at the world championship level. It's not recent, but it's still informative.
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Post by Ray Wirth on Sept 2, 2013 20:37:57 GMT -5
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Post by Jeff on Sept 11, 2013 19:45:08 GMT -5
The wildwater nationals were hard, hard, hard. The Nantahala River is fairly easy in an open canoe when you skirt the edges of the holes and wave trains. In wildwater boats, which are holy-moly tippy, it's a very different story when you're out in those same features. We both (me and Kailey) did a lot of swimming, mostly due to the fact that we just don't yet have enough time in the wildwater boats to quit being twitchy all the time. Basically we've been paddling them as if they were open boats, and we need to stop that and learn the sport as it requires. So we got schooled, but had a blast and made many contacts who are thrilled with Kailey's performance and hoping to help her go to the next level (which is the US Team, and competition in Europe). Pictures for the two days of racing are at the link below. www.usawildwater.com/news/2013/130910-Nationals-Photos.html |
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