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frosted toys from the recent MoustASH Festival. Full post coming soon on the Fluid Blog

Do It Now magazine is all about adventure, sport, lifestyle and doing it now!

I have been involved with the magazine for a while now and they have chosen me as one of their ambasadors which means I get a cool page on their website with links to all the past articles I have written for them as well as some others by friends, everything is obviously paddling related.

So go have a look and support the mag that is supporting our sport. They support pretty much all the paddling events in South Africa by giving space in the magazine for articles getting kayaking in people’s faces and helping where ever they can.

Updates from Freestyle Worlds and the 2011 MoustASH Festival coming soon.

side surfing to the sweet spot during training

Whitewater Training are starting the winter whitewater madness with a really cold bang on the Ash River.

This year it’ll be the MoustAsh Festival bonus prizes for the best “mouth merkin” and if you can’t grow one yet then you can buy a fake one, sort off like wearing a clip on tie to a black tie event.

This quick post is more just to introduce the sponsors for the 2011 event, if you would like to get some more detailed info on the MoustAsh check here or for FB gangs here.

The event is hosted by Whitewater Training one of SA’s leading kayak goodie and training suppliers. So obviously they will be there with gear to check out and toys to win! They are also the folks to contact for the accomodation.

your one stop paddle shop for guides, kayakers and gumbies. get hold of them on marketing@whitewatertraining.co.za

We will be supplying the youngsters and top girlies with full entry to the biggest and best whitewater festival in SA the 2012 Blyde Xfest! www.extremelimpopo.com

Some super sweet toys from SA's legendary kayak makers will be up for grabs. www.fluidkayaks.com

RAM Mountaineering are supplying some shiny new ultra cool Black Diamond kit, to see what will be up for grabs....come to the Ash end of July!

The Edge network is a RAM idea and one of the best spots to go have a look to make sure you are op to date with the adventure life in SA. www.on-the-edge.co.za

2010's most promising new paddler MJ Kuhn from the extremelimpopo crew hammering the Ash's biggest beastie Bridge Rapid.

This was our kayak schools kids’s first run on the river in their own brand new Fluid kayaks. For the full report and more photos CLICK

Thank you has to go to the kids becuase they kayak, the parents for helping the kids, Richard from Southern Cross School for the time/energy to get the kids to us and to Fluid for hooking the kids up with their new toys.

Keep checking in for updates on how the kids are doing and the various trips we have planned for them.

Upstream view a little below the put in on the lower Blyde.

A couple of shots from a Lefty Wave session on the Lower Blyde.

The lefty wave is a rather small but sweet little wave on our home section of the Blyde River. The light was a bit low making photo’s difficult, we also didn’t make the whole trip down back to camp as we encountered one of our more seen but least liked hippos Moomin on the way home and had to abbort the rest of the section.

With the connections here in the South African bush it is rather difficult to load everything onto various sites so here are the links.

Photo Album

Blog post

Enjoy and hope to see many new faces next year!

Me getting some nice lift for a wee air blunt

Thanks again to all our sponsors for helping make Blyde Xfest 2010 the biggest and best yet. Remember 2011 Blyde Xfest starts Friday 25 Feb 2011.

Here is a little ad we recently paddled for. Shot on the As River, Clarens, South Africa.

Very cold weather&water but great humor as can be expected.