Quebec road trip

Quebec is a great whitewater area, it has everything. Big waves, good creeks and lots and lots of water. We had a great trip hitting habitat 67, lachine rapids, chute de plasaince and Hogsback back in otawa city.

Enjoy!

Cobra going down in chute de plasaince.

Happy summer days! so good to be in the water

hot chicks en Canada's day.

Quebec road trip from SB Productions on Vimeo.

Rider of the year awards

The rider o The Rider of the Year Awards celebrate and showcase the best whitewater kayaking from around the world. Here is the winners of the 2010 - 2011 edition. 
rideroftheyear.org

El rider of the yar celebra y enseña lo mejor en kayak de aguasbravas alrededor del mundo. Aquí estan los ganadores de la edición 2010-2011.
Conjuntamente con Rafa hemos ganado la cascada del año, increíble! Mira el video pues no tiene desperdicio.

Rider of the Year II Awards Video from Tribe Rider on Vimeo.

Canadian cup 2011

Yeah life is still as great as always in the Ottawa valley! Last weekend was a busy one, we had the Canadian cup in Garburator wave. It was a bit foamie but lots of people show up to give their best, there was a lot of level with competitors all around the world. Everybody did great with many spectacular rides, big tricks... lot of fun! 

La vida esta genial como siempre en el valle del Ottawa! El fin de semana pasado estuvo muy ajetreado, tuvimos la copa de Canada en la ola de Garburator. Estaba muy pegajosa pero mucha se acerco a competir, mucho nivel con competidores de alrededor del mundo. Todo el mundo lo hizo genial, con rondas espectaculares, grandes trucos.... estuvo increíble!

waiting in the eddy with one of my favourites mexicans, fucking bruno!!

photo: matt baker

The judges

photo: tyler curtis

I had a few good rides on my preliminaries luckily getting in the finals on 4th place, then competed against freestyle master capos Nick Troutman, Stephen Wright, Devyn Scott and Joel Kowalski, yes kind of a freestyle worlds finalists except of me. 

Tuve un par de buenas mangas en mis preliminares, no se ni como metiendome en finales en 4ta posición, contra los capos del freestyle Nick Troutman, Stephen Wright, Devyn Scott y Joel Kowalski, una final llena de finalistas al campeonato del mundo excepto yo claro..

Joel Kowalski throwing a massive helix,

not too fair looking at the new boat he just got...

photo: tyler curtis

Tyler Curtis going for an airscrew

photo: tyler curtis courtesy

Buena onda Lalo!! nos vemos en Mexico!

In the end Nick Troutman won the senior k1 killing everybody else by far, sick job men! He was followed by Stephen, then Devyn, Joel and me. Dane Jackson won the k1 junior and Emily the k1 womans. Congratulation everybody, was a great event!

Thanks to Adam Scott and Ryan Whetung for making it all happen.

Nick Troutman arraso en k1 senior, seguido por Stephen, Devyn, Joel y después yo. Dane Jackson gano en junior sin problemas y Emily igualmente en k1 damas. Felicidades a todos, un evento de puta madre!

Gracias a Adam Scott y Ryan Whetung por hacerlo posible!

Canadian cup 2011 from SB Productions on Vimeo.

Summer day in the Ottawa valley

SPANISH VERSION
After a sick trip to Quebec, I came back to the Ottawa valley with Ali. Our plan: try to find a good spot to camp next to the river, the life in the island was amazing but it was just too hard to transport the food, water... but most of all we where looking for a really cheap way to live, not having to pay for sleep in the floor and living close to the river so we don't need car (something difficult in Canada).

Cobra browning the shit of one of the biggest rapids we ran in Quebec.

photo: tino specht

the spanish camp !

We built a plataform with a few woods 

so we could stay a few cm. up from the floor. 

Super needed after the racoon made like 4 different holes in our tent...

After more than 3 months living in the woods, battling hard against mosquitos, rain, racoons, low food, having to walk kms. and kms to go get everything and etc and etc... Somehow the boss of the land noticed that we where living there, came one morning and kicked us out of his place, totally fair but pain in the ass to have to move after having all set...

all we have is this.

We did put all our things in our kayaks and started to kayak up the river looking for another cool place to stay.

time to move.

I love the feeling of advancing to another adventure, but this time I was pissed, with no money and any place to live I was tired of everything! But you know when you go so deep that you touch the bottom you can only go up! Paddling in the river we met a guy who let us camp in his cottage!! Thanks a lot David! 

 ali,  cobra and the princess! we are family.

Since then life is great, days pass so fast and without even notice I'm on my last moth In Canada. Things are going sweet , I got some work, food and enough money to survive, the level has dropped enough so we have all this sick waves (garburator, corner wave, baby face, push button... the ottawa river is sick for freestyle!).

macho move en Phils hole.

cobra en waikiki wave!

photo: todd Zillwood-Hunt

happy to clean our clothes after months without....

I'm having a great summer, with no , no boss, my only worries are getting the tricks, not getting robbed by the racoons, the waves keep working... I know... living the dream!

clean blunt in corner sick wave!!

photo: marcos gallegos

Check out the last of SBP video, a normal day in the ottawa valley! Enjoy it, get excited and go kayak! Because is the way to happiness!

Summer day in the Ottawa valley from SB Productions on Vimeo.

aniol

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Big Banana Falls

Last year I had the opportunity to spend a few great months living in Mexico, during that time I got to kayak a lot of sick rivers and waterfalls, including a 128 feet called Big Banana in the rio Alsesseca, Veracruz. Check the update: Big Banana falls Update

Cobra on the way down of the 2nd biggest waterfall ever done!
Photo by professional photographer: Lucas Gilman

Here you can see the line Big Banana falls video

Cobra y Rafa Ortiz first descent of the big banana falls , check Frontier for the full history!
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Spring freestyle sessions in Sort

Check out this little video of myself paddling in our local spot in Sort, big air loops and good times in my loevely village! Missing it already!

going big on the space godzilla!

All the rights of the photos reserved to Gorka Martinez, check out some of his work at his webpage: www.gorkamartinez.com