Monday, September 27, 2010

'do it for the love' Finally up in HD, Western Canada Creeking

Here it is, my edit from this summer based out of Calgary Alberta. Plenty of Southern Alberta Classics in there with some good interior BC goodness thrown in there as well!!!
Keep your eyes out for some more coming soon. Scored a 4th place at the Aquabatics Film fest last week.
Check out my good buddy Jasons edit 'FOURTY 2 FOURTY' which took out 1st place at...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b-XskI73mU&feature=player_embedded

'do it for the love' Enjoy





Peace

Blair

Friday, September 24, 2010

FOURTY 2 FOURTY out!! 1st Place at Aquabatics Film Fest

My good Kiwi buddy from the home land Aotearoa has put together this awesome video of our summer here in Canada. He is a budding paddler and has been getting out to some of our local creeks and doing some mad walk in missions to get some of this footage!!!!
Last night we had out first Annual Aquabatics Film Competition. There were 7 entries.
Jase cleaned up and took first place and got him self a brand new Dagger Nomad 8.1

Other entries included Mikkel with Yoho which took third and myself with 'do it for the love' which came in 4th. Congratulations to Jeremy Parker who came in second with 'Creeking, an example to avoid'. He took home a brand new Werner Paddle! Jeremy is only in his first season paddling and had made an awesome progression!!

All in all it was an awesome evening. Thanks to everyone who came along to make the night so great!

Here is 'FOURTY 2 FOURTY' from Sinistar Productions







check out Jasons blog
http://sinastarproductions.blogspot.com/
and keep your eyes on his youtube Channel for some sick skating edits from a bunch of our kiwi buddys here in Canada ripping it up!!!

Do it for the love will be up here by next week. Just having a few problems getting it uploaded.

Peace

Blair

Friday, September 17, 2010

BC Fall Creeking Photo Update, The Yukon, 'do it for the love' coming soon!!!

Apologies for the lack of updates. This has definitely not been because of a lack of paddling sweet runs but more due to my own slackness. However it has been a busy while of work now! The kayak school has had an amazing summer and I have been on a lot of amazing trips both with work and personal!
I made the long trek up to the Stikine a few weeks ago. I left very much undecided in my mind. I had not really seriously considered this run this season until Mikkel mentioned it a week or two before we ended up leaving. It is for sure something I have set myself a goal to do and spent a lot of time thinking about it.
We got to the put in at the highway bridge next to the infamous sign. I could not come to a confident decision to put on so I decided not to and hung out with Lianne driving shuttle.
It almost seemed like all the stars had aligned, awesome crew, low water level (unknown low mind you), great weather and great forecast! I just did not feel mentally prepared for the commitment of this run at the time and I am happy with the decision I made. Def a solid goal for the not to distant future!

A bunch of great trips to BC and one of my favorite runs the Yoho Canyon, which I shamefully left my GoPro in the car for....
All in all it has been an epic summer thus far. The weather here in Alberta and BC has not been very summery but all the same it has been a sick paddling season and with unusual amounts of fall rain we are receiving at the moment two of our local runs are back up and running..sick!! Here is some sweet photos from the past couple of months!!!

Enjoy....



Old School Gold Route on the Yukon. A crazy French Can TV Reality show. These guys were doing it old school for 3 monthes!!!!!


Bottom of Portage on Lower Pingston, I think with the right crew and lots of safety this goes....Double Stage 20ftr into Slightly angled 60ftr into boulder garden into Double Stage 30ftr.....Amazing place!



Scouting Curtain Call on the Big River River, Alberta, Photo : Dean Woodgate




Myeself on Freefall, Big Horn River, Alberta, Photo: Dean Woodgate




Myself, 1st Drop, Lower Perry River, BC, Photo: Dean Woodgate




Myself, 1st drop of triple set into Arrow Lake, Lower Pingston River, BC, Photo : Dean Woodgate






Myself, Lower Perry goodness, BC, Photo: Dean Woodgate




Low Water seam boof, Elbow Falls, ALberta, Photo: Dean Woodgate




The Yukon, Whitehorse again





Flying off into the smokey haze, Mt Mackenzie, Revelstoke, BC, Photo: Dean Woodgate




Myself, Sutherland Falls, Revelstoke, BC, Photo: Todd Gilman




Ready to Fly, MT Yumnuska, Alberta




Wicked Reflection, BC




Sweet Reflection, BC





Main Canyon, Lower Perry River, BC, Photo: Dean Woodgate




Myself Flying High, so sick!





Whiteswan Lake, BC




Whiteswan Lake, BC, So Beautiful




Myself Cliff Jumping with our Junior Dev Team, White River, BC





The massive forest fires in BC this season sure did make for some amazing photos. This was a silhouette at around 10am one day.
Near Golden, BC




Lake Laberge, Yukon River, Yukon




Lake Laberge, Yukon River, Yukon





The Yukon River, You have to go on this thing to truly understand how massive it is!!!!






Dawson City, Yukon, Amazing old style Architecture





Dawson City at 1am. It did not get dark there when I was in town. Got to experience this at some point!!!





The Yukon River Again....MASSSIVE




The Yukon River, GoPRo Image




Rail Tracks, White Horse, Yukon




Sweet Yukon PLates





Me n Simon, Somewhere on the Yukon




Secret Free Hotsprings, somewhere in beautiful British Columbia






Secret Free Hotsprings, somewhere in beautiful British Columbia....



Our Aquabatics Film Competition is coming up this Thursday. So if you are in Calgary come on down to Melrose bar and grill for 6pm. There will be a bunch of awesome edits up on the big screen with some sick prizes to be dished out!!

'do it for the love' is currently in the editing process. I will hopefully have t done by the end of the weekend. Been a bit of a hectic mission going through all my footage in the past few days organising it all.

Anyway hope your Fall is going awesome!!!

Peace


Blair

Saturday, September 11, 2010

fourty 2 fourty Teaser

So I have been super slack with updates over the past two monthes. None the less I have been doing a bit of creeking and had a couple of wicked trips with work.
I am currently just going through all my photos and working on a little video. I will have a sweet update of the past couple of monthes shortly.
For now my good buddy Jase Wright is making a up a sweet little movie from the season.

Here is his teaser for 'fourty 2 fourty'

This will be entered in the upcoming Aquabatics Film Contest and has some sick shots and angles of some local creeking in Southern Alberta here which I am pretty sure have not been shot before!

Enjoy




Have fall boating. Check back for a picture update soon!!

Peace

Blair