My 2011 season

This has been one of the best years of my life. I came back from Mexico with my first real injury ever a broken rib so I got to spent 1 month and a half healing myself and getting to spent an amazing time with my family! First paddling I got to do was in the west of Spain, Galicia and Portugal two true creeking paradises on the right time of the season!

panadeiro slide in caldes de reis photo by: katya kulkova

dropping in to the second drop in castro laboreiro

sweet rapid in the castro

Winter Highlights from SB Productions on Vimeo.

We spent our spring in Sort paddling in the hole in the mornings  and hitting the creeks next to our area in the afternoons what a great place to be!

competing in the spanish cup in sort and getting second place
photo by:gorka martinez 

the border cross in Pau!

Spring freestyle sessions in Sort from Anyoree on Vimeo.
On april 30 we left together with my brother Gerd to compete in the whitewater grand prix, the sickest event ever done in kayak. 25 of the best kayakers around the world where selected to compete/travel and kayak together for 2 weeks. Amazing time!

rush and myself fighting on the border cross!

giant slalom race! photo by: marcos gallegos

cobra going big in the freestyle competitionon another sick wave in Quebec. photo by: tyler fox

last rapid of the giant slalom

the crew of the WWGP! thanks all!

2011 Whitewater Grand Prix from Tribe Alliance on Vimeo.

I spent the next 5 months after the grand prix living next to the Ottawa river, getting my freestlye skills up and enjoying a super simple life.

having fun in garburator, it gets so hot in the summers that skin to wind is the way to go!

our campspot, teaching little princess how to cook! photo by: tino specht

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

big water in mistassibi! photo by:tino specht

Beatdown trip from SB Productions on Vimeo.
Together with Rafa Ortiz we won the drop of the year in the rider of the year awards. Check out the video for some epic kayak images!

aniol serrasolses running the 2nd biggest drop ever done succesfully!

Rider of the Year II Awards Video from Tribe Alliance on Vimeo.
Next country was Mexico one of my favourite places on earth we spent two great months creeking in Veracruz and recording for the next Unknown episode with Tino specht check out the teaser! Final movie coming up soon!

freefalling in tomata I

sick line in tomata I photo: lachie carracher

Unknown: Mexico (Preview) from Tino on Vimeo.

san pedro falls photo: mathias fossum

dropping in to meat-locker

Mexico from Lachie Carracher on Vimeo.
After Mexico I ended up in Chile where we had a great low water season.... anyway we are doing our best to keep charging and running good stuff.

running the 80 footer salto palguin photo by: mathias fossum

throwing a back pan-am off a 50 footer on the rio fuy
photo by:  mathias fossum 

Bomb Flow Episode 6 "The Rise of Blue Balls" from BombFlowTV on Vimeo.

Can't wait for more in this 2012 season! I am still in Chile and it seems that I am gonna be here for a while I spent all my last money getting here so now I have to work enough to pay a ticket back home. Not complaining it's great to be here :)

never stop going!

The season in pucon was short and strong. After too many days there i felt the need of hit the road and some more places. So we left the siphon and head straight in to argentina to celebrate christmas and paddle one of the sickest argentinian rivers!

las ratas en la frontera de junin de los andes!


First day we hit the rio manso, about 50 km. of bariloche. This is one of the greatest and most beautiful kayaking paradises in argentina!

duckie slide at really low water....

buena linea en el salto de los alerces!


Next river we hit was the rio blanco, some of the coolest drops and slides I've ever seen ar hidden on this one. One of the best runs in south america!

boofing mandinga!

maybe the cleanest drop in the world??

cali drop!

 After having a great time in Argentina for Christmas we left to Futaleufu together with Marcos. This is one of the meca's for all kayakers, "un paisaje pintado por dios, the place is super beautiful, the river is awesomme and the people there is super cool too! No stress in that place!

marcos house next to the rio azul!! what a view!!

josefa!

we attempted a mission to the baker with this subaru loayale 93' . We got stucked on our way down there having to spend a whole week in coyahiqe trying to fix it... it never worked out and we end up selling it for 300.000 chilean pesos.....
biggest fail ever...

good playboating session in the futa!

awesomme landscape on the rio fuy!

here is myself throwing a back pan-am on the 50 footer in the rio Fuy !

Chile - Argentina full edit from Marcos Gallegos on Vimeo.

Unknown preview

During my last few trips I've been lucky enough to get to met Tino Specht, a super talented young kayaker/cinematographer who proposed me to be In his next Unknown, a serie of episodes that features different paddlers around the world. Here is the teaser, check it out the final edit is coming soon!! enjoy!


Unknown: Mexico (Preview) from Tino on Vimeo.

random photos!

Life couldn't be better right now! I am living in Chile, paddling, traveling, discovering and enjoying the pura vida! We are on our way south now and there's really good plans of kayaking coming up!
Check out the teaser of the Bomb Flow Episode 6 wich is coming really hot! Full episode coming up on 25 of december!!


Check a few random shots of the last months kayaking, some good stuff here!

freefalling on san pedro falls
photo: mathias fossum

dropping in to the 85 ft. salto palguin, two years ago I boofed, swam and ate shit on this one! this year was another story photo: mathias fossum

stilying silencio drop photo: mathias fossum

gettin dirty on bukaki rapid, rio jalacingo photo: mathias fossum

crazy move on tomata 2 photo: mathias fossum 

sequence shot of tomata falls by my friend lachie carracher

nice shot of silencio falls photo: tomas bastida

myself boofing hard on Mariman photo: mathias fossum

EG going for it! photo: aniol serrasolses

the boys packing up after a sick todo nevados run!

dropping into demshitz drop

boofing stout 10

boof to swim

the lip to dirty gerd

walking out of nilahue after break my brand new paddle, pissed as never before...

More photos and videos coming up soon!

On the road again...

After running the dirty Gerd we jumped on Evan and Anton car "blue balls" and droved straight to the nilahue, the most perfect slide/waterfall in the World. All the area is fucked because of the eruption of the volcano Puyehue, it all started on the month of June and still going on strong. The water is contaminated, the cows and animals are dying, and if it keeps this way the people living in the area gonna end up with black lung sickness...

Puyehue volcan erupting...

person walking in one of the affected areas.

We arrived Nilahue late in the afternoon, the water level was really low but the water was totally brown and full of ashes. In the pool below the drop there where thousands and thousands of floating volcanic rocks, we also could see rocks going up in the landing, really scary...

the boys checking the area

Luckily Anton decided to go first and try the landing, everything went smooth and he didn't hit any rocks on his way down... We all followed and both had good and safe lines, crazy experience to run a drop with this conditions, later that day we all had sand and rocks all over our bodies.

anton firing up Nilahue

here is me following! the last 2 drops I've done have become the most expensive In my entire life, I broke my brand-new paddle on this drop and now I'm on deep shit now with my last money spent on a paddle that I don't have anymore...

We moved to the rio Florin after running nilahue, where our good friend Papa Garcia was waiting us with an amazing asado!!! Good times, lots of beers and wine and one of the most amazing places on earth for camp, with termas and the sickest river out there 2 minutes away from the camp.

the rats killin all the meat

la cobra!

We woke up with the calm next day had some good breakfest and headed to the river. It was pretty low but still good to go.

Anton on the Terremoto a scary double drop.

myself on the 60 footer, such a sick drop and beautiful place to be!

Two years ago we did the take out just after the big waterfall but you still can keep going down, where you find this beautiful 30 footer with a must boof, on the left there's one of the ugliest caves ever.

myself boofing it as hard as I could...

papa Ian destroying blue berries falls!

landscape from Futrono,  you can still see the ashes coming out of the volcano...

Great 2 days of roadtrip with the boys, can't wait to head south and live on the road for a few few weeks!
all this great photos by Mathias Fossum, thanks bro!