Summer times in Spain

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BC living !

I am back from the most fun trip ever !!! Paddling all over beautiful BC has been one of the best experiences of my entire life!!

2nd lap at Mamquam falls!!! such BAD-ASS waterfall!

been waiting for years to see this signal in person

Located in the North west area of  British Columbia this is one of the most famous and feared canyons all around the world. 87 Kms. with some of the best whitewater you will find anywhere.

beautiful mountains on our way to the Stikine

flat tire!!

previous mess before putting in the Stikine

Highlights of the trip:

-       5x runs on the Stikine

-       8x runs in the Ashlu in one day

-       3x runs on Mamquam falls

-       Heli shooting the Stikine

-       Zip line shooting at Mamquam falls

deep inside the canyon on day 2

getting some air time at 50/50. I love this waterfall and section !!

This is a list of the people I went in there with.

1st lap – 4 days ( Rickets, Jules, Gerd, Barney, Adrian & Mathieu)

2nd lap – 3 days ( Stokesberry, Corbulik, Gerd & Barney)

3d lap – 3 days ( Sam, Olad, Jared, Darin & Gerd)

4th lap – 1 day ( Sam & Gerd) – 6 hours

5th lap – 2 days (Mikkel, Sam F. Adrian, Diego, Galen, Jakub & Bryce)

thank you ali for driving us all the way to Kamloops!! you the best!!

waiting with Sammy and Gerd for the heli to arrive. it was so damn cold that morning.. we started paddling at 7:00 in the morning !!

Gerd on the chicken line of the wall 2!! this rapid can give some good beat downs !!!

all stoked after running our first run on the Stikine.

I ended up doing 5 laps over 3 weeks. Wish I could have stayed longer and got to do a few more but still happy with what I did. I know all the lines really well now and I can run the river confidently without having to stop and scout anything.

good times with my brother!!! it has been too long since the last time I paddled with him.. he has come a long way and is kicking my ass real hard these days.

PARADISE !!

for some reason these place reminds me of the 1st movie of the lord of the rings when they're crossing the river and there's giants on both sides. 

la rata getting some well deserved resting time

epic times shooting 

wolf track camp!!! Beautiful place!! love sleeping under that big ass rock.. been cold on every other camp except of wolf tack!

getting to the point of no return.

Best day: was the one day run on the Stikine with Sam and Gerd. I can’t believe how much whitewater you get to run in there in one day. People forget to tell that there are lots of flat water at the start and at the end of the run.

Best rapid: Site Zed or V drive

Best waterfall: Mamquam falls

Best river: Stikine river no doubt !!

Best party: we had some fun at Crankworx for sure!!

Best location for kayaking: Dease lake or Squamish

site zed camp bro! 

chilling in the sun of site zed!!

gerd geting fired up for site zed!

barny the craziest school teacher ever

bacon timee!!

chris approaching wason's hole! 

Gerd all smiles!!

gopro shot of wagons hole.

back to civilization

running site zed for the first time. BEATER line for sure... photo by mikkel st. jean duncan. THANKS!!

getting some air below site zed

gerd about to punch the big hole in site zed

THANKS to everybody who gave me and my friends a hand. so much welcoming people out there !!! 

Profile RedBull 2013

Norge videos !

Substantial TV Ep. 6 Teaser "Ragnarok" from Substantial Media House on Vimeo.

 
Lower Rauma one day edit from SB Productions on Vimeo.

Paddling the Pyrenees with Aniol - Kayak the world with SBP EP.3

amazing spring of kayaking in the Pyrenees!! everybody start praying to have one like this for next year!!

THANKS EVERYBODY INVOLVED ON THE SHOOTING OF THIS VIDEO:
Aleix Salvat, Albert Aixas, Mikel Sarasola, Marc Parra, Marsal de la Fuente, Alfonso....

Norway stories #1

It’s been an epic one month trip to Norway!! The water levels have been way lower than in our first year but that hasn’t been bad at all cause we got to run different sections which normally are too high!!  Lots of good times with my friends, amazing paddling and the most fun I’ve had kayaking in the last few years…  

good times with EG the killer... so much learnt after kayaking one month with this guy!!

What  I love most about Norway is the amount of possibilities you have when deciding to go kayaking. Everywhere you look there’s water falling off the mountains, it doesn’t take much rain either to make the rivers rise up. That’s because everything is so wet already and there’s not much soil to drain the water.

Anton & Mathias walking back from a sick park-huck!

Yeah this is the place !!! Paradise for any kind of kayaker, from class II to class VIII Norway has it all and it has it on big amounts.  

MR. Flemming is the most bad-ass kayaker I have ever met... 

We been doing lots of shooting with Evan and Fred the creators of Substantial media house. They just bought a Sony FS which shoots at 240 fps. so make sure to check out their new Scandinavian episode, It’s going to be next level!!!

driving back from Rauma after a really good day of kayaking!

good camping next to the Songdal. stoked to have a motivated Pyranha team this year  that wanted to do crazy stuff everyday instead of sticking to the class II....

EG running a nice waterfall next to Sjoa.

camping in Norway!! so good!

scouting a really good rapid in Polfossen... lost my paddle after the entrance and beatered the rest of the rapid..

upper rapids in the Tora Bora... quality!!

Marsal running the last part of rapid #7 in the Rauma

Nosebreaker!!! such a powerful waterfall!

#5 of the rauma!

following my buddy down the polfossen! 

the pro's getting close to double drop!

really good crew this year!!

1st rapid of the rauma..

flemming's screenshot!! such a rowdy drop!

who's going first??? this one looks great in this picture.. but it was so scary/powerful. 

MR. Immler loving the teigdal section!

Here’s a recap of our mission:

Swimmers count:

David Bain x4 swims

Matt Cookie x2 swims

Aniol & Fred 1x swim

EG enjoying the views!

Broken Gear:

6x broken/lost paddles

3x broken kayaks

Injuries:

-       1x broken back “unfortunately there was a major injury for wich I feel so bad cause I really know myself what is like “ heal up well Matt !

-       big cuts on hands, tendinitis on elbows & busted fingers.

Anton on the #2 of the Rauma!

EG sequence!

Best day of kayaking: Second run on the Rauma (EG, Flemming and myself ran all but Flemming’s drop with 10 min).

Best food: Cookies thai food or Fred chicken rice!! It was fucking awesome!!

Best waterfall: 1^st D of “sick boaten falls” somewhere around Valldal was my favorite!!

Best rapid: Tyler’s rapid in Valldala was a really stout/scary one!

Joregen becoming a man!!

Best river: Rauma and Skjoli at high water are my favorites!!

Best party: Sjoa party followed by a late play run to Amot 5 AM run !!  

Best carnage: French guy line on double drop was insane!!

Major fuck up: running Karl’s car out of gas after taking his car without asking him… sorry man!!!

Best present: Sweet protection dry suits and the Homeless jacket are the most expensive/bad ass piece of gear that I will probably ever own!! Thanks so much Goran for treating us like kings every time we come to Norway!! So stoked to be part of the team sweet!!

Norwegian playing our Baker video on my way back from Oslo!!! STOKED!!!

Getting my stuff ready to travel to BC pretty soon!! Can't wait!! More news soon!