Less than one month out from the NZCT New Zealand Canoe Sprint Championships, CRNZ Coach Tim Brabants focuses on the task of getting crew boats moving.

South Island Surf Ski pioneer and founder of the Queen and King of Bay Nathan Fa’avae hopes that the 2021 edition can help further cement its place on the surf ski calendar.

The Kahawai Paddling Championships – a brand new Canoe Racing NZ event designed to develop the next generation of paddlers – will be launched on Saturday May 8.

Good things come to those who wait….and that is certainly true of the Manuka Performance Heads to Harbour Paddle Festival, which doubles as the New Zealand Surfski Championships, in Whakatane over the Easter weekend.

In the second part of Tim Brabants’ Coaches Corner segment on data and technique, the CRNZ coach focuses on the importance of how coaches and athletes can benefit from technology already in their pocket – the mobile phone.

Lisa Carrington climaxed the Blue Lake 2 regatta by securing three further titles to add to the hat-trick of gold medals she snared on day one on a thrilling day of racing in tricky conditions on Lake Tikitapu today.

Lisa Carrington overcome top-class opposition at the Blue Lake 2 regatta and conditions she described as “incredibly challenging” to triumph in the open women’s K1 200m A Final at a windswept Lake Tikitapu today.

Double Olympic champion Lisa Carrington is the star attraction at the Blue Lake 2 regatta in Rotorua this weekend as the four-time Halberg Sportswoman of the year makes her eagerly-awaited return to competition.

The IOC has accepted a recommendation from the International Canoe Federation (ICF) to remove two events from the sprint kayaking program for Paris 2024.

Tupu King is a superstar of Waka Ama. A multiple winning national champion and World Championship medallist there is very little the Papamoa-based paddler has not achieved in the sport. However, last weekend he moved out of his comfort zone to try his first surf ski race and finished a highly respectable sixth. We find out more about how he has adapted to surf ski racing.

The flagship 2020 Vaikobi King and Queen of the Harbour witnessed a maiden men’s surf ski title for Ben Keys and a superlative ninth women’s crown for Rachel Clarke in Auckland today.

In the “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” from 1798, English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge writes, “Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink”. With the amount of information that we can collect on athlete performance and the number of technical nuances a paddler can display, it can be really difficult to know where to focus a coaches’ time and energy. Data, data, everywhere, but not a piece of use!