Posts from ‘July, 2009’

We have some news today from the US East Surf Kayak Team, reporting from the 2009 World Surf Kayak Championships in Santa Cruz Portugal. First, the conditions today were very big and heavy.  This means there were more blown decks, some broken boats, and several swims.  Comes with the territory.
Our final team standing was 8th [...]

US East Coast Team has made the top 8 in the Preliminary round and has advanced to the Semi-Finals of Team Competition.  Several of our team members are still in the running for individual world titles as well.
Here’s how things stand currently… “the situation…”
HP Mens Individual Preliminary Round
Joey Hall – 1st Place advance to next [...]

Well, the US East team advanced several more surfers out of the 1st round of Men’s short boat yesterday.
Also, we began the first round of the team event and we are currently in 7th.  Lots of good surfing from our team.
Apparently you can see a live score and video feed of the event at this [...]

US East posted some impressive scores today in the IC Class and advanced most of our paddlers to the next round.  Surf today was small, dumpy and choppy for the most part, around waist to chest high.  Today’s results for our team:
Charles Salters – 1st Place IC – advance to next round
Spencer Cooke – 3rd [...]

The opening ceremonies have occurred and day 1 of competition is over here at the 2009 World Surf Kayak Championships in Santa Cruz, Portugal.
Today 5 of our 10 team members surfed and advanced.  This is individual competition only, as the team event does not occur until next week.  Here are today’s results for USAEast:
(first heat [...]

Thanks for visiting the ESKA Site to check on the progress of the US East Surf Kayak Team and the 2009 World Surf Kayak Championships in Santa Cruz Portugal.  The current status is as such:  Surf is big and clean and we have had some excellent days of practice.  Competition begins tomorrow, Saturday July 25th [...]

The US East Surf Kayak Team will be competing at the 2009 World Surf Kayaking Championships in Santa Cruz Portugal from July 23rd-Aug 4th.  This year we have a strong team, with a mix of seasoned veterans and paddlers who are relatively new to the international scene.  We will be posting updates to the ESKA [...]