WOW!

What an amazing week. New River Academy has been based at Cara Del Indio which is the take out and put in two amazing sections of the Rio Futaleufu. I wish you could all be here to experience how blue and big this river really is. It is truly one of a kind. After a few days of training on the Futa all the students competed in one of the biggest most important competitions of the year. Its is thrown to bring awareness to the river and other chilean rivers so damming does not continue to happen. Because of this tons of international paddlers flock to the competition to compete and support the cause. You will be happy to know that NRA swept the competition. The first even being the down river race. Katie Kowalski took first in the womens class. Eric Bartl took 2nd in the mens playboat class. Lorenzo 4th, Stephen Forster 5th,David Gorski 6th in long boat class. Then NRA put a rafting team together led by Lorenzo and we got 1st in that race as well. In rafting we beat the Peruvian national rafting team. The freestyle placing was Me in 1st place, Stephen in second and Eric in Third. This is a great reflection of all the athletes working hard on their skills everyday and it paying off. I hope everybody is well. Check in soon.

Best,

Coach Tino Specht

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