I Love Paddling

When I was 22 yearsold, I led a group of 5 girls to the Arctic. For six weeks we paddled the Anderson River to the Arctic Ocean. Thanks to that trip, plus years of taking 12-year-olds to the Boundary Waters of Minnesota, I’ve never doubted that it’s possible (and fun) to take kids canoeing. But […]

Okay, we’ll admit it. We came to paddling through canoeing–an ago-old tradition that makes us a little suspicious of new fads. Once upon a time, kayaks seemed high tech to us so when Stand Up Paddling came along? We weren’t the earliest adopters. But an article in TIME Magazine this week covered the sport’s history […]

British kayaker Ed McKeever earned the reputation of being the Usain Bolt of kayaking at the 2012 London Olympics. And while his quiet demeanor is nothing like the attitude we’ve come to expect from the world’s fastest runner, McKeever is fast. He paddled at a rate of three strokes per second to take gold in […]

We were inspired by this video of Grant Goltz and friends as they built a replica of an 1860s Ojibwe birchbark canoe. It’s a long one, but a good one. If the video doesn’t load, you can also watch it HERE.

The U.S. Canoe and Kayak Team is back on deck in London this week: kayaker Carrie Johnson races in the K1 500-meter sprint early Tuesday morning. If you’re an East Coast morning person, you can watch it live online HERE at 5:07 a.m. eastern time. A three-time Olympian, Johnson trained for the London games in […]

After two days of slalom racing at the 2012 Olympic Games, U.S. Canoe and Kayak athletes put in a good show but failed to advance to semi-finals in the slalom competition: U.S. Canoe and Kayak Slalom Results On Sunday, July 19, three-time Olympian Scott Parsons (Men’s K1) and two-time Olympian Casey Eichfield (Men’s C1) narrowly […]

With the Olympic Ceremonies mere hours away, pre-Olympic coverage has tweeted about everything from the silliest banned items for spectators (leave those wide-brimmed hats at home) and speculation about who will light the torch (the money’s on Roger Bannister, who broke the 4-minute mile). But we’ve got our eye on a few of the Olympic […]

They’re perhaps one of the more iconic paddles in the canoeing world: Bending Branches. Recently, Canoeing.com interviewed Branches president, Ed Vater. We got an inside look at what it takes to make a Bending Branches paddle, and some insider advice on how to pick the right paddle for your needs. Read the full interview, and […]