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“Club Rafting Femenino” – hailing from Costa Rica

“Club Rafting Femenino” Costa Rica is a group of women who love white water and nature. They promote the sport of rafting amongst women and the result is a team that is the best representation of competitive women rafting in Costa Rica. Most members of the team have been in the team since 2006; some

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Red Ladies Raft Racers hailing from the USA

The Red Lady Raft Racers, made up from a team of professional river guides, was grown in the Arkansas Valley, USA. They are real ambassadors for their sport, a young team with big ambitions, and will spend their winter training on the Colorado River to compete in the National Selections in 2013. The stakes are

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Why are so many of our articles about women’s teams?

Recently we’ve had quite a few articles about women’s rafting teams and not so many about men’s teams! The reason for this is that we seldom get the responses we’re looking for from the men’s teams! So if you have a team and would like us to write an article about it then contact us.

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Rafting training and competing indoors anyone?

Rafters doing training and competitions indoors?! If you think this sounds unusual and impossible, then read on …. Serbia have recently come up with the idea of a rafting ergometer (exercise machine which can measure the amount of work performed when exercising on it) and they have added competitions to it as well. In an

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Petawawa Raft Team Canada have their eyes on WRC NZ 2013

A crew from Manitoba and Ontario that came together on the Ottawa River, in Foresters Falls Ontario, will represent Canada at the 20 13 World Rafting Champs in New Zealand in November. The “Magnificent Seven” are: Gwyn Ashcroft, Graham Ball, Jon Booren, Andy Hill, Bill Leslie, Lars Romeskie and Tim Wintoniw. Most of the members

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Great article on Pre-Worlds and WRC 2013 in NZ

From the December issue of Adventure magazine: Wet and Wild, a look back at the Pre-Worlds at Labour Weekend and a look forward to the 2013 Worlds…4-page feature… Photos by Graeme Murray and Alan Ofsoski (big thanks again to the guys for coming out and doing the mahi for the love)… words by Graeme Simpson …. take a look at full

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R4 Euro Cup 2012 is concluded in Augsburg

The final 2012 R4 Euro Cup event was held in Augsburg, Germany, recently. This was the final event in the series and sees 2012 as a very successful year for Germany.  They were crowned the 2012 R6 Euro Champions and now Team Bavaria RTA 1, Augsburg have been crowned the R4 Euro Cup champions. Not only

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IRF WRC 2011 is first Certified Carbon Neutral World Sports Event ever!

The International Rafting Federation delivers the first certified carbon neutral World Sports Event with the Costa Rica 2011 World Rafting Championships. This article explains how they did it. A model for the world. Costa Rica raises the bar in global sustainable environmental initiatives once again. The World Rafting Championships (WRC), held October 4-11, 2011 in

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One week of tour rafting in the Alps!

Finally, the last week of June has arrived and I can leave for France once more. After a detour to bike up Mont Ventoux it’s off to Lake Geneva near the Swiss border to start a one week rafting trip through the French Alps. First on our to-do list is Les Dranses. A very nice

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