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Palm – gear for paddlers, has put this great video together showing how to ensure you have put on yours and other’s PFDs properly. A three step guide: 1 Undo all straps, zips and buckles. 2 Put on the PFD, and fasten the zips and buckles. 3 Tighten straps, working upwards from the waist.
Doping tests at WRC 2014 Brazil were carried out by the Brazilian National Anti Doping Agency. 10 doping tests in total. The first 5 tests was carried out after the head-2-head competition and the rest was carried out after the slalom competition. The IRF is still waiting for the results and news about the tests
This is the 4th year for this festival which is growing every year as it gets better known and as it offers more to the participants. Dates: 24 – 26 November Location: Trishuli, Fishling, Nepal Info: www.facebook.com/nkcwhitewaterfest Prizes to be won! This year the event will be covered by various media from around the world such
The Brazil teams have scooped up the Open Men’s, Open Women’s and Masters Men’s title at the World Rafting Champs in Foz do Iguaçu. Brazil. Photos: Nilton Rolin / Itaipu and Rickardo Andrade The 2014 R4 Championships have ended after gathering the best in the world, from 19 countries, for two weeks of competition. Last
It’s not often you need to know how to set up a rope pulley system – but when you do it is normally an emergency and you need to know how to do it fast! Vidra Kele brings us these great illustrations as to how to set up various pulleys with increasing ratio strength when the
With the temperature around a hot and sweaty 40 degrees, the teams competed on the Itaipu Channel, Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná, in the H2H discipline of the R4 Rafting World Championship 2014 Open and Masters. Brazil took a clean sweep of old the gold medals on offer – Open Men, Open Women and Masters Men.
Today in Foz do Iguaçu, the Open and Masters competition started at the R4 Rafting World Championship 2014 with the Sprint. With over 30 degrees of temperature, rafters from 14 countries competed in the Sprint on this Thursday afternoon, the Sprint on the Itaipu Channel. In the Open Men, Japan, the defending world champions, showed
The IRF 2014 R4 World Rafting Championships has moved into its second phase now which is the Open and Masters divisions. The past two days the teams had a chance to paddle on the Itaipu Canal where they familiarized themselves with the Sprint, H2H and Slalom track. The second day of training the water was
Today in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, the R4 World Rafting Championship in the Under 19 and Under 23 categories concluded with Brazilian teams dominating by taking the title in three of the four categories: Under-19 and Under-23 Men’s and Under 23 Women’s. It was a very early start for the athletes today as they headed
International Rafting Federation
Official world governing body for rafting since 1997