An email from 'The Don' Ron to Dan @ Nookie

"Oh yes, and here are some pictures with my Assassin! Fuck I love it.
The pics are not that great, but i'm happy to be a coloured man again and paddled the fucking Middle Oetz with kind of high flow :)"

Apologies to those easily offended but i loved this email so thought i'd share it! dan @ nookie

Good Luck Team Nookie

Fresh off the back of Yellowboys bronze medal at the World surf kayak championships Nookie Team Riderz are ready to represent again. The World championships for freestyle canoeing will be kicking off next week in Thun, Switzerland.
All of of us at Nookie would like to wish our Team Riderz the very best of luck, go big boys!

Ben White, K1SquirtMen, Great Britain, current World Champion

Leo Carpene, K1Men, France

Doug Cooper, K1Men, Great Britain

James Weir, OC1Men, Switzerland

If you see the boys in Thun buy them a beer, they deserve it.

Good luck to all the competitors,
Nookie Team Rider X

Norway Part II - 24 Hour Sun

The 2nd instalment from Norway, 24 hour sun!

After the warm up we met up with a couple of Norwegians who where heading North. Tore is writing a new guide book for Norway, he knows his stuff. So we tagged along to see what North Norway was all about.

We were greeted a wealth of virtually unexplored, world class rivers and 24 hour daylight. With time threwn out of the window as we passed Trondigm, we had 6 days [I think!?] of 24 hour boating darting across the Norwegian / Swedish Border. Unsuprisingly finding a good time to have an epic being 2:30am! Up here we even bagged a 1st descent - but that's another story!

Stunning scenery, Stunning Crystal clear water, Stunning Paddling - another day - another river

Rockin it up in the evening sun on a tidy class V on the Ena

Drop to Slide Combo in Sweden

The view from my bed @2am!

More photos and info can be found on my Blog Here

I'll post up more from week three - Voss & Sjoa, next week...

Stay Wet

Ben

Yellowboy - 3rd at Worlds

Hey Just got back from the World Surf Kayak Championships in Portugal. We had an amazing time out there and surfed some fantastic waves under the hot portugese sunshine!
I turned up with my new surf kayak design the 'Alushe' from new surf kayak brand AIRTIME. This is a sub-brand of the very well established and well manufactured Downtime squirt kayaks.
The boat worked really well, carrying loads of speed and is very manouverable. Those two things combined made difficult dynamic moves much easier!
Surfing the 'Alushe' and kitted out in the best paddling gear in the world :Nookie, I gradually made it through round after round and eventually found myself in the final. Now i had gone out there this year to try and match 9th place which i finished last year so you can only imagine how utterly STOKED I am to be sitting here now ranked number 3 in the world!!! Not bad for a soul surfer.

I first signed with Nookie after a chat with Bill Mattos when I was 17... I am 27 this year so 2009 marks the 10 year that I have been lucky enough to be supported by such a great company who support their team riders so well!

Thank you all so much for the support!!

I'd love to stay and chat, but my flight leaves tomorrow for a 4 week surf trip in Tonga!

Life is SWEEEEEEEEET!

Nathan 'Yellowboy' Eades

Nookie Team Rider

Photos Credit: MING FARTHING