The mighty Ottawa River, we arrived!

   Wow! It’s almost been a month since I started teaching at the New River Academy! The first 3 weeks, we traveled to Beachburg, Canada, residing right next to the infamous Ottawa River—one of the best freestyle kayaking spot in the world! 

upstream of Phil's

The resort where we stayed at was called “Keener Ville.” Keener program has been one of the most prestigious junior freestyle kayaking programs in the world along with the New River Academy.  Keener Ville is located right in the heart of the best rapids on Ottawa River, such as McCoy which has Baby Face, Leftside and Corner Wave (“the best wave in the world”~Tino, our head coach at NRA) and also Garberator, Gladiator, Push Button, etc. It literally takes 10 minutes paddling from the shore to those surf spots. How awesome is that! 

Dave doing a stern stall

Baby face eddie

Enjoy!