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Tino Specht
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My name is Tino Specht and I am the Head Coach at New River Academy. I have been here for 2 and a half years. My goals include making people the best athlete they can be as well as pushing myself to higher limits. I am also the video Teacher so you will see lots of video on this blog!

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    Corner Wave Freestyle Training

    Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

    Hey Everyone!

    We just got off the water from a great freestyle training exercise. Today was Freestyle Day. That means we focus on 2 or 3 different freestyle moves and learn how to practice them and how to push yourself. We take 5 rides on each move. In these rides we are only doing these moves, this allows us to focus completely on the task at hand and not get distracted by wanting to try other tricks. Once everyone is on their free time they will feel comfortable trying these tricks in their ride because they will have gotten past that awkward stage of trying a trick and not hitting it every time. Check out some of the shots from the session!

    Enjoy,

    Coach Tino Specht

    Taylor airing out her roundhouse!

    Nick, Smiling but exhausted from the on water treadmill, cornerwave.

    Ride the lightning

    Jacob going for the Air Blunt

    Jordan about to go and kill it.

    Hunt bouncing around on Corner Wave

    Zoe Ross throwing a Shuvit

    Wayne Hitting his Roundhouse that we have been practicing!

    Lore and Kira paddling back up to Corner Wave

    Lorenzo Coaching

    Tino

    Tino coaching Jacob on how to throw right on Corner Wave

    Tino enjoying the green, fast, amazing Corner Wave

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    Yoga!!!!

    Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

    Hey Everyone,

    Coach Tino Specht writing in to tell you guys about an awesome new part of our Morning Workout!!!  Kira Tenney, our talented english teacher is also a great Yoga teacher! She led morning workout yesterday and the athletes got the chance to stretch it out in the morning. The reason we are incorporating Yoga into morning workout now is because a high percentage of injuries in kayaking are related to not stretching enough. I myself had a bad back injury this summer because I don’t stretch enough. Our goal is to protect everybody in this program from any injuries! Yoga is just another great way to do that.

    Enjoy,

    Coach Tino Specht

    Reach!

    The Cobra

    Kira helping our athletes push themselves

    I don't know what this is called but its a great challenge!

    I called this the Warrior

    I think Kira called this one the Eagle

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    Hit Your Line Day

    Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

    Hey Everyone!

    Checking in here from the banks of the Ottawa River to keep you up to date on the happenings at New River Academy! Yesterday was Hit Your Line Day. Hit Your Line Day is the day where we all go out to a specific rapid and scout it as a group. Then we talk about the best ways to look at a rapid and break it down into pieces. This helps everyone to understand exactly what they need to do in the rapid without getting completely overwhelmed. Then every athlete picks a line that they think will challenge them and meets personally with the coach about it. Once they have ok’d their line with one of the coaches they go up to the top of the rapid with a partner and try and hit their line. Because we are all about safety here at NRA, the kids also learn how to set safety on the rapid correctly whether or not it be standing on the bank with a rope or running the safety from your kayak, waiting in the eddy below the rapid. They have to take into account how big and wide the river is, where the kayaker will go if they swim, what is downstream and how to get their gear back to them. All very important lessons. Here are some shots of our Hit Your Line Wednesday!

    Enjoy,

    Coach Tino Specht

    Wayne going for the tongue through Phils hole on McCoys Rapid!

    Senior paddlers Clay and Taylor taking the initiative to run safety for the group in the eddy below the run!

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    Dave Throwing a Wavewheel into Phil's Hole!

    Errik going for the tongue

    Wayne, All Smiles!

    Hunt on the way to his second run!

    USA team member Jordan C1 Freewheeling into Phil's Hole!

    Julia punching Phil's Hole!

    Kai floating down into the rest of McCoys Rapid

    Your's truly talking about how to safely use your throw rope on the river

    Tino doing a throw rope demonstration

    Tino Punching Phils Hole and sweeping the rapid. Sweeping means that your the last person down the rapid. It is this person's responsibility to make sure everybody has made it down safely.

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    First Day Of School and Safety!

    Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

    Hey Everyone,

    Just checkin in here from our second day of school to update you on how awesome this year is starting out. We are here on the banks of the Ottawa River relaxing into our new year here at New River Academy. Classes have started and I’ve already heard the student bragging about who’s schedule is better! Kayaking wise, we have been taking the first half of every afternoon session to practice our safety technique. First we worked on our throw rope skills with Lorenzo and myself as the instructors. Lorenzo grew up on a very difficult river, because of this he has a higher understanding of throw rope rescues than almost anybody I have ever met. Lorenzo put the athletes through an intensive dry land training to prepare them for our training on the river. When we got to the river we had everybody pick a partner who they would be responsible for saving and roping out of the river. So one of the people would jump into the river and the other would be waiting downstream. It was the responsibility of the person waiting downstream to hit the swimmer with their throw bag and pull them to shore. Our second day we practiced aggressive swimming in a rapid. The reason for this is that everybody swims out of their kayak from time to time and its better to know what to do once your swimming in a rapid and perform a self rescue to the best of your ability. Lucky for us we have the safest trainging ground in the world! The warm friendly Ottawa River. Today is choose your line day. This consists of everybody looking at the same rapid and choosing a line that is challenging for themselves and then talking through the line with the coaches. This is designed to help the athletes learn to read rapids for themselves and make good decisions!

    Here are some shots from the last few days!!

    Best,

    Coach Tino Specht

    Kira and Nick in AP English

    Kai and Wayne in Math class on the banks of the Ottawa River

    Julia already engrossed in her reading

    Spanish class with our Native Chileno Lorenzo!

    Video class with Tino Specht, NBC just picked up Tino's last film!

    Warming up before dryland throwrope practice

    Lorenzo about to demonstrate the correct way to jump into a river

    Lorenzo demonstrating the correct way to enter the river, body flat, hand on your shoulder straps.

    Jump!!! Hit with your back or your side first!

    Hayley goin for it!

    Taylor swimming for the eddy, Kira running safety below to make sure nobody floats to far downstream

    Kai dropping in!

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    First Day Orientation

    Sunday, August 29th, 2010

    Some photos of the first day of orientation. Dave gave a great talk and now we are about to go kayaking! We also played some team building games!

    Orientation at Keenerville

    Dave Speaking about the rules of the school

    Lining up for the game!

    Mid Play!

    I bet your wondering what the rules of the game are...haha

    The winners!

    Passing out delicious prizes!

    Now off to the river for safety training!

    Best,

    Coach Tino Specht

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    Welcome to the NRA 2010-2011

    Sunday, August 29th, 2010

    Hey Everyone,

    Welcome to a another exciting year at New River Academy. We have arrived safely and soundly to our first outpost on the banks of the mighty Ottawa River. I thought I would snap a few photo’s of some of the new faces in the program for you all! Lots more to come!!!

    Best,

    Coach Tino Specht

    Kira Tenney, Our awesome new English teacher!

    Chris Smith, Our new history teacher brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the program

    Zoe Ross! Go Team Zoe!

    New Addition! Haley Stewart

    Kai-Wen is our new math Genius in the program!

    Clay, happy to be back on the Ottawa River. Ready to throw down!

    Part of our group, geared up and ready for action!

    Taylor, all smiles

    Julia ready to fire up McCoys Rapid

    Taylor and Alex enjoying Corner Wave right next to our base!

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    NRA Spelling Bee

    Thursday, May 13th, 2010

    Hey All,

    News Flash, Taylor Cote has won the NRA spelling bee. Chase got second and Alex third. It was pretty fun to watch them!!!

    The starting line up!

    Chase getting a word right, I think it was "Karaoke"

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    The Specht House Hold

    Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

    Hey All,

    Just writing in to show a few photos of our community service on the farm.

    Clay stacking wood.

    Jess weeding the garden beds

    Eric working on pulling sod clumps

    Tracy, Matti, and Taylor weeding sod clumps out of the field

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    Zoar Outdoor to the Rescue

    Sunday, May 9th, 2010

    Hey Everyone,

    I just wanted to write a quick update about our day yesterday. We got to get on my hometown creek run of the West Branch of the Deerfield River. This is an amazing, clean, fast class 3-4 run that I have been dying to bring the athletes on. The only problem was we didn’t have creek boats. So I called up Bruce Lessels and Greg Poehlein at Zoar Outdoor and they were gracious enough to lend us 6 creek boats for the run! We also got to paddle with some of the local highschoolers here Lukas and Dan! Those guys were awesome, bringing a new perspective to the group on the water and showing us down the creek with smooth lines and plenty of style. What an awesome afternoon!

    The NRA crew picking up the boats at Zoar Outdoor

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    Coaches Report

    Thursday, April 29th, 2010

    Hey Everyone, We’ve finished our time down south and now are passing the time on the awesome waves of the Ottawa River. The NOC Shootout was a great success with everybody making freestyle breakthroughs on the wave there as well as placing well in the competition! We got to hit up the Tallulah River in Georgia where the kids got a chance to use their river running skills from Chile on a big water creek of the Southern US of A. Check out this southern update by Jess!

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