There’s nothing like the rush you get when navigating through white water rapids — down every wave, eddy, pillow, and drop of water — as you’re rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ down the river. Rapids can be aggressive, yet graceful, providing a certain poetry in motion in the sport of whitewater rafting; in between rapids there’s always a proverbial calm before a storm — almost always with beautiful scenery — but when the hydraulic storm hits, it tosses and turns you (and sometimes flips you) like an angry beast. However, it is never actually angry (unless you’re feeling … Pictures and more
Archive for the ‘Boating’ Category
Jetpro Jet Sprint Boating Championship fourth round was held at Riverside Jet Track near Crownthorpe in the Hawke’s Bay on Sunday 4 March. Both husband and wife world title category winners are at the top of the podium after a clean sweep.
Setting fastest time of the three classes chasing New Zealand titles, Wanganui’s Leighton and Kellie Minnell blistering run of 46.874sec further extends their lead in the Suzuki Superboat category. Second fastest in the top-three final was … More
UIM-APB Aquabike World Championship 2012 first round, the Qatar Grand Prix, was held in Doha from the 1st to 3rd March. French duo Cyrille Lemoine and Jeremy Poret, Italy’s Stefania Balzer and Slovenia’s Rok Florjancic took overall category honours, Lemoine finishing third in today’s heat in Runabout F1, Poret completing the Doha win-double in Ski, with Stefania Balzer taking her second career heat win.
In Freestyle the accolades belonged to  … More
UIM-APB Aquabike World Championship 2012 first round, the Qatar Grand Prix, is being held in Doha from the 1st to 3rd March.
Cyrille Lemoine added his name to the list of French riders enjoying success in Doha, winning heat 1 of a spectacular and incident-filled race in Runabout, which saw the pole-sitter Francois Medori drop from second to 20th place after he momentarily parted company with his bike, and Franky Zapata climb from  … More