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ChristianKnight
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   Topic: What is your athletic background?
Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 11:24am |
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Hey peeps,
For a Canoe and Kayak magazine story, I’m trying to find out what athletic backgrounds are most common in whitewater kayaking. In a response, please indicate what your high school or extracurricular athletic endeavor was. Include any pursuit to which you were significantly devoted.
I appreciate your help.
Christian Knight
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Catch your eddies,
Christian
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Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 11:39am |
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Swam on year round teams and in highschool. Was a lifeguard for work as a kid.
As a paddler I have picked up a few other sports that accentuate the areas we paddle in. Mt bike riding is my favorite non paddling past time and fishing. Fishing can go hand in hand with paddling but not so much with the biking.
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jella
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Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 11:41am |
Volleyball, basketball, running in track, biking, rafting and catarafting....
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septimus prime
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Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 11:51am |
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Basketball. Go Cats! Sorry, Chip .
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franzhorner
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I played soccer and baseball all through elementary and highschool. I played football my senior year.
I also spent a lot of time hunting and fishing and for a while I was in a table tennis club.....
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water wacko
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Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 12:25pm |
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Karate, Aikido, 6 years of football, baseball, wrestling, track, basketball, mountain biking!, skating, yoga. Most were before I was 16.
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"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive." ~Howard Thurman
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Scott_H
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Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 12:32pm |
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Swim team year round growing up
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“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”
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Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 12:35pm |
re-read your question - I also climb\snowboard now and when I first took up kayaking. It seemed like kayaking was a good sport for the "shoulder" seasons; until I realized that this is the land or year-round kayaking.
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“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”
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PowWrangler
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Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 12:57pm |
Let's see, mostly a stoner in high school along with being in and out of swim team during that time period. Lots of rock and ice climbing, mtn biking and snowboarding during college/grad school. Started kayaking about 10 years ago and quickly lost most of my interest in climbing. Now it's just paddling, snowboarding and hiking when I can fit it in.
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Jed Hawkes
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Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 12:58pm |
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Played ice hockey as a kid, soccer my senior year of high school but I wouldn't say "I was a soccer player". But growing up mostly I sailed, mountain biked, ski/snowboarded, Sea kayaking, Skateboarded, and had a stint as a climber.
The sport that really occupied my time was sailing during the summer, racing mostly.
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Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 1:25pm |
this may throw the charts off a bit but its a true story.
8th grade joined baseball. I sucked ! strikeout king ! whole season never made it to 1st base struckout everytime.all pitchers laughed at me they knew, easy out. I played left field and hoped ball would not come my way.
9th grade joined football. I sucked ! never really had a position I played.I was the pro bench warmer. Whole season I played 1 play NOT 1 game 1 play in whole season.
After that I hated sports ! Metal was a lot easyer to be a part of .
Then at 23 thankfully I was introduced to climbing by my brother. something that actually worked out.
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Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 1:27pm |
Originally posted by jella
Volleyball, basketball, running in track, biking, rafting and catarafting....
Did you forget Hockey?
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Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 1:31pm |
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I rode dirt bikes most of my childhood. Didnt do any sports in school besides that. I used to mountain climb and hike with my dad during my childhood. Then got into mountain biking at 19 and Whitewater kayaking at 23 and have been doing it ever since for 21+ years.
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Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 1:35pm |
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I forgot, I played tennis, golf, and racketball growing up also, but not on any teams...
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James
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Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 1:41pm |
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Oh I forgot that I was an avid Innertuber. I mean I innertubed alot as a kid. Mostly running drops on the Cedar and Lower Tolt, I found my passion for rivers and swimming in rivers from my exposure with a Tube. I never considered it a sport or even a hobby, it was more like something we did when it was just to hot outside, then after a few times you started looking forward to it each year.
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Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 1:57pm |
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Well Mr Knight. I went to Snohomish high school. Class of 2003. I played video games. Mostly James Bond Golden Eye on Nintendo 64. I was predy badass at that. I also snowboarded but I don't consider that a sport. It's predy lame actually. Video games are way cooler. Then I discovered white water kayaking. Now I paddle and play Xbox 360. Those are my sports. But kayaking isn't really a sport either. So predy much the only sport I play is Xbox 360.
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Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 1:59pm |
I forgot, I skied all my childhood since I could walk...
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jella
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Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 2:07pm |
Originally posted by dave
Originally posted by jella
Volleyball, basketball, running in track, biking, rafting and catarafting....
Did you forget Hockey?
Yes- I also played hockey.... fishing, hunting, camping, hiking, ice climping, sled dog racing, you name it...
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Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 2:19pm |
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Aggressive skiing / cliff hucking and then motorcycle roadracing. Springboard diving also. Plus a lot of fishing and hunting.
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Ping Pong, tiddlywinks, chutes and ladders, pin the taiil on the donkey, simon says, go fish, war, my little pony, playing with ken dolls....
Christian, don't you dare print that...
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Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 3:24pm |
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In high school I rode horses on land, and waves in the ocean, bodysurfing & body boarding. I don't kayak though, I river board.
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More water, please.
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Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 3:29pm |
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I was a wrester in high school, then rock climbing and snowboarding, bmx, and some church basketball.
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Courtney
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Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 3:56pm |
I was a swimmer for almost 10 years. Was on a national team and made the Olympic Trails. Didn't make the Olympic Team though. Boo hoo. Before that I was a figure skater for about 5 years with the United Figure Skating Association. I started kayaking in 1993, backpacking in 1995, and snowboarding in 2001 and still do all three but snowboarding has been on the back burner for a while.
Courtney
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AaronS
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Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 4:05pm |
Childhood
school and community soccer
attempted to be a part of a BMX freestyle team (in the early days)
Tennis
Skiing
Little League Baseball
High Schooland beyond
2 on 2 basketball on the 9ft rims at the park
high school football, skiing, tennis, hooky-bobbin
College and beyond
Hockey, racquetball, golf, beer pong (Go Cougs!)
Team roping, running, hiking
Kayaking has been a recent addition, but one of my favorites!
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Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 5:16pm |
As a kid I did a lot of innertubing, and swimming.
In highschool I played paintball, hunted, hiked, and fished.
In college I dropped the paintball and added karate, krav maga, judo, and competitive shooting.
After college a cop friend told me to find an activity that would get me away from other cops on my days off. I remembered all the innertubing as a kid and found out that kayaks are much cheaper, and now I am a kayaker/canoer.
Kyle
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