ORT Men - Gore Canyon ColoradoU.S. Nationals
ORT Women - Gore Canyon ColoradoU.S. Nationals
ORT Women - Payette River IdahoPBR Event
9/27/07
ORT Men-Gore Canyon Colorado US Nationals
ORT Men - Gore Canyon ColoradoU.S. Nationals
ORT Women - Gore Canyon ColoradoU.S. Nationals
ORT Women - Payette River Idaho
ORT Bio
Oregon Rafting Team (ORT)
ORT began it’s evolution in 2002 when 20 year river running veteran and football coach Tim Brink gathered a crew of his past and current teammates from rugby and college football for a local race. After dominating the regional whitewater raft racing scene for a number of years, an unfortunate career ending rugby injury forced Tim to focus his competitive fervor exclusively to raft racing hence ORT began. After training one summer with world class guides from Colorado, Tim returned home to the Portland area with some new found racing knowledge and began recruiting paddlers to form both men’s and women’s racing teams. During the initial season, ORT raced with a co-ed team as recruiting enough committed paddlers to form two teams proved to be difficult. That is not the case any longer. In 2007 ORT traveled to Colorado with two full teams as the women and men each placed in the top five nationally.
ORT athletes will have to compete with each other to earn a spot on the “Red” team for 2008. However, ORT has a no cut policy as equipment is provided by Aire rafts, Aquabound Paddles, WRSI helmets, and Immersion Research, we now have enough gear to race 3-4 teams at any given event across the country. The athletic backgrounds of our athletes include 4 former college linebackers, dragon boat racers, endurance runners, skiers, snowboarders, mixed martial arts, kayakers, catarafters, drift boaters, skateboarders, rugby, and of course a few river guides.
Off the water once the gear is put away all the seriousness stops and the raging begins. With nicknames like the Nightcrawler, Hoser, Ox, Timber, the Twin Towers, WFE, Cuddy, etc., let your imagination do the rest and the resulting perception may actually be accurate. We are proud to say that ORT is the first of it’s kind. Not a team of guides or even river veterans, but rather an athletic, charismatic body of energy that successfully engages in a variety of adventures throughout the year while reinforcing the bonds we have created through the medium of whitewater raft racing. ORT, we are more than just a racing team.
www.oregonraftingteam.com
ORT began it’s evolution in 2002 when 20 year river running veteran and football coach Tim Brink gathered a crew of his past and current teammates from rugby and college football for a local race. After dominating the regional whitewater raft racing scene for a number of years, an unfortunate career ending rugby injury forced Tim to focus his competitive fervor exclusively to raft racing hence ORT began. After training one summer with world class guides from Colorado, Tim returned home to the Portland area with some new found racing knowledge and began recruiting paddlers to form both men’s and women’s racing teams. During the initial season, ORT raced with a co-ed team as recruiting enough committed paddlers to form two teams proved to be difficult. That is not the case any longer. In 2007 ORT traveled to Colorado with two full teams as the women and men each placed in the top five nationally.
ORT athletes will have to compete with each other to earn a spot on the “Red” team for 2008. However, ORT has a no cut policy as equipment is provided by Aire rafts, Aquabound Paddles, WRSI helmets, and Immersion Research, we now have enough gear to race 3-4 teams at any given event across the country. The athletic backgrounds of our athletes include 4 former college linebackers, dragon boat racers, endurance runners, skiers, snowboarders, mixed martial arts, kayakers, catarafters, drift boaters, skateboarders, rugby, and of course a few river guides.
Off the water once the gear is put away all the seriousness stops and the raging begins. With nicknames like the Nightcrawler, Hoser, Ox, Timber, the Twin Towers, WFE, Cuddy, etc., let your imagination do the rest and the resulting perception may actually be accurate. We are proud to say that ORT is the first of it’s kind. Not a team of guides or even river veterans, but rather an athletic, charismatic body of energy that successfully engages in a variety of adventures throughout the year while reinforcing the bonds we have created through the medium of whitewater raft racing. ORT, we are more than just a racing team.
www.oregonraftingteam.com
8/29/07
Free SRT Clinic and a new Creekin' Vid
Hey all,
Just a quick update from the Wild West. Last week I held a free SRT safety day for any and all to attend. The goal of the get together was to talk about safety, learn some new tricks and actually practice the old ones. We had a good turnout from river surfers to beginner kayakers and seasoned vets. Thanks for all who attended and hopefully these meeting will start happening more frequently and on other rivers around the globe.
Also give you a short creekin' vid I've thrown together. Hope you enjoy!
Just a quick update from the Wild West. Last week I held a free SRT safety day for any and all to attend. The goal of the get together was to talk about safety, learn some new tricks and actually practice the old ones. We had a good turnout from river surfers to beginner kayakers and seasoned vets. Thanks for all who attended and hopefully these meeting will start happening more frequently and on other rivers around the globe.
Also give you a short creekin' vid I've thrown together. Hope you enjoy!
7/18/07
Violently ill, too much rafting and 90 feet of freefall
The title pretty much sums up my last couple of weeks. After wrestling with some unknown illness that actually made me spend some time in the hospital to get rehydrated I was back on the water. Unfortunately it was in a big rubber raft instead of my kayak, but I guess I need the money for my upcoming travels to NZ. Besides it’s a great way for others to see what whitewater is all about. So after working lots of days in a row I finally got a day off and headed to Sutherland Falls on Blanket Creek. Sutherland is the most perfect 60 drop I’ve ever seen (except for the nasty little drop just below it). To sum it up- paddle to the lip, spot the landing, adjust angle, fall, fall some more, hit your tuck, fall some more, impact. Good times.
After that drop I headed over to another spot that my friend Johnny had heard about only a few days before. Since our beta was from a non kayaker we were a little bit skeptical. When we finally found it we were pleasantly surprised with a nice fun 30 foot drop. After a bit of work hauling our boats we got the mission done. Might be a first descent but definitely can’t claim that for sure.
Well I’m back pushing rubber again just waiting for another day off because I’ve got some big things lined up so stay tuned.
Later,
Later,
Dan Caldwell
7/2/07
Mathieu Coldebella-Mix Water Contest-France
Mix Water Contest
2nd and 3rd of June.
2nd and 3rd of June.
Text : Mathieu COLDEBELLA
Photographs : Gaël KERNIN
Photographs : Gaël KERNIN
WRSI fench team (without Marc)The Mix Water Contest is the only feeestyle kayak event in Paris. There are 4 spots on the white water park, each differents but both nice.
The contest happened in the first hole, a litle one but with a good retention.
Saturday we did the freestyle and funny boarder cross qualifications. Mathieu Dumoulin pass easily but i twas more difficult for me.
There was no party at nihgt so some people decided to ad-lib a parking meeting which keepon for a long time.
Sunday : - Quart of final : don’t remenber the results but Mat and me went to semi final.
- Semi final : 1st Mathieu Dumoulin, 2nd Mathieu Mathieu Coldebella.
- Final : 1st Romain Planchais, 2nd Mathieu Dumoulin, 3rd Mathieu Coldebella.
Mat Dumoulin going ultraclean
Mat Coldebella Airloop
Mat Dumoulin Power flip
Mat Coldebella Airsomething.In fact, a pretty cool week end with graet friends, great sun, hot water and perfect helmets !!!!
Special Thanks to WRSI.
6/15/07
Heat wave + Massive Snowpack = Epic Floods!
Hey there folks,
Dan Caldwell checking in
from beautiful British Columbia again, this time with some pics from the Kicking Horse River in Flood. With several sections to choose from this truly is one of Canada's best. The larger than normal snowpack started melting at a very quick pace thanks to a mini heat wave which produced some of the highest known levels. I timed a run of the lower canyon (it took 21 minutes, usually it's about an hour) and figured that the speed of the water was around 50km/h. Add 15ft waves and you have yourself a good time!
from beautiful British Columbia again, this time with some pics from the Kicking Horse River in Flood. With several sections to choose from this truly is one of Canada's best. The larger than normal snowpack started melting at a very quick pace thanks to a mini heat wave which produced some of the highest known levels. I timed a run of the lower canyon (it took 21 minutes, usually it's about an hour) and figured that the speed of the water was around 50km/h. Add 15ft waves and you have yourself a good time!Check out a vid with some of the action
Photos courtesy of Steve Brooks
Now go boat and be safe!
Dan Caldwell
6/9/07
2007 Worlds
check it :
It's a new clip video about 2007 worlds, you can see some french paddlers : Stefun Pion, Mathieu Dumoulin, Nouria Newman, Gael Kernin, Valentin Corrote, Léo Carpenne.
and many surprises, we discovered Ford car : it's so funny, but it's drink too much gaz!
enjoy
hope to see you on a river.
marc girardin
It's a new clip video about 2007 worlds, you can see some french paddlers : Stefun Pion, Mathieu Dumoulin, Nouria Newman, Gael Kernin, Valentin Corrote, Léo Carpenne.
and many surprises, we discovered Ford car : it's so funny, but it's drink too much gaz!
enjoy
hope to see you on a river.
marc girardin
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