What is your athletic background?
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Topic: What is your athletic background?
Posted By: ChristianKnight
Subject: What is your athletic background?
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 11:24am
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 By: James
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 11:39am
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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Posted By: jella
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 11:41am
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Volleyball, basketball, running in track, biking, rafting and catarafting....
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Posted By: septimus prime
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 11:51am
Basketball. Go Cats! Sorry, Chip .
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Jon Shell Bee
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Posted By: franzhorner
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 12:00pm
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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MORE RAIN PLEASE
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Posted By: water wacko
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 12:25pm
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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Posted By: Scott_H
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 12:32pm
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 By: Scott_H
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 12:35pm
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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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Posted By: PowWrangler
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 12:57pm
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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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Posted By: Jed Hawkes
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 12:58pm
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 By: rockarolla
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 1:25pm
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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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Dave Moroles. 253 241 8550.
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Posted By: dave
Date 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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Nomad
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Posted By: dave
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 1:31pm
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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Nomad
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Posted By: dave
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 1:35pm
I forgot, I played tennis, golf, and racketball growing up also, but not on any teams...
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Nomad
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Posted By: James
Date 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 By: Blair
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 1:57pm
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 By: dave
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 1:59pm
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I forgot, I skied all my childhood since I could walk...
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Nomad
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Posted By: jella
Date 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 By: JD_G
Date 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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Posted By: HINDS
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 2:38pm
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 By: up4air
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 3:24pm
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 By: justin
Date 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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Posted By: Courtney
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 3:56pm
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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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Posted By: AaronS
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 4:05pm
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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 By: Wiggins
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 5:16pm
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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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I smell bacon
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Posted By: Kyle K
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2011 at 6:43pm
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I was lucky as parents started a rafting company when I was 13 and I was pro guiding by 14. In the winters I surfed and backpacked (grew up on CA coast). Wrestled freshman year in high school but quit to surf more (oh yeah, and wouldn't cut my long hair - coach didn't like it). Did some low grade rock climbing too.
Started kayaking in high school because lots of other raft guides were doing it. Quit at 18 (kayaking, not rafting) because I moved to Grand Canyon and there isn't much kayaking in the off season there. Started kayaking again in early 40's. Now 53 and never plan on giving it up. Still rafting too occasionally.
Other sports/activities as an adult: skiing, snowboarding, martial arts, along with yoga and (very) recently weight lifting.
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"I used to be somebody, now I'm somebody else." Bad Blake
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Posted By: martha
Date Posted: 05 Apr 2011 at 1:31pm
HS: 4 years of both soccer and softball. 3 years of volleyball.
College: Div III both soccer and softball all 4 years.
Knee surgeries from soccer made me look into other sports and happily found kayaking although that seem to require me having surgeries too.
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Posted By: mokelumnekid
Date Posted: 05 Apr 2011 at 2:18pm
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Life-long backpacker, also rock climbing and mountaineering for about fifteen years but then stopped that for the most part, HS football, swimming. Pretty much have exercised in some form or another for all my adult life. Oh yeah- worked hard construction and mining for about a decade. That should count for something.
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