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Tino's video update!

2008-05-06T12:10:00.000-07:00

New video From Tino Specht and New River Academy

Ottawa High water!!

2008-05-06T10:38:00.000-07:00

Everyone has seen pictures of Bus Eater. But have you ever wondered what else the Ottawa has to ofter on high water? While New River Academy was training on the Ottawa we never got on buseater at a prime level. But we were able to find other features on the river. Above coach Tino Specht surfs a small glassy fun wave, found at the top of the garberator rapid around 20ft.

Above, Tino carves it up. Dont be mislead by its smaller size, this wave is a blast.
Below will show that McCoys rapid also tossed us a surprise. At the top of the rapid where a large hole if found. Still upstream of phils hole, is a very nice wave. glassy, fast, steep, foamy. besides the short hike, this wave is perfect for training big water.

Sven, shows his skills, from Germany, kayaking all over Europe. Sven lives on the Ottawa every summer due to its great playboating. It all showed sticking a pistol flip in this shot.

Eli surfin it up.

Tino demonstrating that many moves can be thrown on this wave. Pan-ams, clean blunts, pistol -flips, KY's, Bread and butters, all the wave moves. Below shows the lineup for the wave.

Clean!

Goin for the huck

Shakira Shakira

2008-05-03T19:03:00.000-07:00

Just for kyle "shakira shakira" she viseted our school
and jumped in caels boat

Ottawa longboarding

2008-05-02T16:58:00.000-07:00

The local landscape consists of rolling hills with cow farms,
and cow corn farms. alongside the Ottawa river, the quiet
rolling hills are great for skateboarding.

Above, Tyson excited to get on something a little steeper,
afterworlds Brian (below) gives it a try.

Funnn hill, with an easy hike back up.
Tyson loves the carving.

Above:Fun mellow turny hill Below: Tyson gettin creative on it.

Brian, carving it up

Photos by: Brian Boyle and Tyson Rowley

Zach M drops Waterfalls in chile

2008-05-02T16:34:00.000-07:00

30fter

7 teacups freewheel

cockpit rim grab

HUGE freewheel

Tino Big waves in China

2008-05-02T16:27:00.000-07:00

Pan-Am on newly (possibly first surfed) wave on the salween river

kickflip

bouncy

sooo big

WISP nationals boatercross

2007-10-01T17:43:00.000-07:00

Andrew Holcombe and Eric Jackson in a full sprint

Jake Greenbom shooting the notch

Sprinting for the first gate

clouds

2007-09-16T11:15:00.000-07:00

poor image quality

Sunset picture

2007-09-13T09:58:00.001-07:00

Sunset over ottawa valley

Crazy clouds over a farm

keeners ramp update 2

2007-09-13T09:44:00.001-07:00

Cael is throwing a paddle twirl airscrew
Tino throwing a huge airscrew
I took a sequence of photos of Tino Specht and Cael Jones hitting the keeners ramp, and put them in a strip on photoshop.

Corner wave

2007-09-06T07:02:00.000-07:00

Sam Fulbright surfing Corner wave

Corner wave is extremely fast and steep. making it perfect for blunts, spins, clean spins, grinds, air screws, pan-ams, back blunts, and any mystery move you want to try. It is located on the Ottawa river in mcoys rapid after phils hole on the river right. The wave has eddy access but you have to be careful about flushing downstream into a large hole called horseshoe. Horseshoe has a toung in the middle so its easy to get through, and the river left side id good to go for surfing, but the river right side might throw you around for a little while.

Matt west kicking up a splash on corner wave while carving hard in his Bliss Stick RAD

Tino Specht throwing a blunt on Corner wave

Cael Jones caving on the glass

Shane Groves grinding down the wave

whitewater kayaking on garb

2007-09-06T05:13:00.000-07:00

New River Academy students watch as Morgan Tidd surfs Garb

Garb is a perfect training spot due to the river long eddy that runs with it. This means you can continuously paddle on the wave for as long as you would like without getting out of your boat.

Daniel Stewart throws a huge righty blunt on Garb

As pictures both up and down demonstrate garb offers perfect shoulders to throw blunts off off. These shoulders can also be used to set up on the top of the foam pile.

Cael Jones throwing a blunt on Garb

Ottawa Ramp

2007-09-04T18:11:00.001-07:00

Today we had our first true session on the Ottawa ramp at the keener's place. The ramp consist of a large ramp built out of wood with a kicker at the bottom of it. Plastic fencing is added to increase sliding speeds. To hit the ramp you get in your boat at the top of the ramp on a flat platform and push yourself off. When you hit the kicker you have many options on what you can do. We were mainly trying airscrews, blunts, panams, And anything else we could huck. Then you simply land in the water. The landings are pretty soft. the one thing you want to watch out for is landing flat, for that will hurt your back.

Cael Jones throwing a huge airscrew.

Shane Groves

Tino Specht sores threw the air

Sam Fulbright throwing a clean blunt

David Rhule Throwing an Airscrew

Ottawa competiton

2007-09-04T06:48:00.000-07:00

Saturday September 1st the crowds gathered for a throw down on garberator wave on the Ottawa river. People traveling from all over to compete, watch, and just have a fun day on the water

Daniel Stewart about to throw a blunt on garberator wave sending him to semi finals

Dane Jackson throwing one of the biggest moves of the day

New River Academy Students Sean Johnson in the red Dagger and David Rhule in the blue wavesport line up for their chance to throw their best on Garberator.

Longboarding in West Newbury

2007-08-15T14:25:00.000-07:00

Adam Dembowski and Brian Boyle
Looking for a new rush? Well All you need is some wheels and a hill.
Adam and I went out today in search for an epic hill to ride,
the pictures will tell the rest of the story,

Brian Boyle long boarding in West Newbury

We found a perfect hill to ride. It was long, steep, fast, quiet, and it had a great runout to slow down. We used my jeep to shuttle runs up the hill, and wee took turns taking pictures of our runs.

Adam Dembowski Long boarding in west newbury

The hill was had acouple of turns, some steeper spots, and some milder spots. makeing a very fast, fun turny ride

Adam Dembowski Carving it up

High speed carving

Adam grabing Rail

speed blur effect helps show the true speed

Many epic rides and luckly no bad burns, turned out to be a sick day of skating.
hope you enjoyed!

-pce

Lachine

2007-08-13T14:51:00.001-07:00

Tino specht and i drove a long 6 hours from Shellburn falls MA, to Montreal Canada to surf the lachine waves. We had a great day on the water Accompanied by some French paddlers. Use to training on the Hawaii wave on the Sur Rhone river in Lyon France they had no problem throwing every trick imagined on this wave. I couldn't resist taking pictures. check them out...

HUGE lefty blunt

Pan-Am

Clean Blunt

Tino Specht throws a huge blunt