ICF Kayak World Championships 2013

Freestyle Kayak & Canoe

ICF Kayak Freesytle World Championships 2013

North Carolina, USA

If you're entertained by the spins, flips, turns and tricks of freestyle snowboarders or surfers then you will love freestyle kayaking. Freestyle kayakers compete by performing a variety of moves or tricks on a stationary river feature. Standing waves, 'holes', or hydraulics, or eddy lines — areas where the water changes direction — are all potential freestyle features.

The athletes perform tricks like cartwheels, loops (full flips), blunts (really fast, near vertical turns that spew a curtain of water), and such colorfully named moves as the Roundhouse, the Phonics Monkey, the McNasty and the Donkey Flip.