This is Keegan Grady checking in from the beautiful Ottawa Valley!  The last couple of weeks have been amazzing!!! Airborn Athletics Team member Devyn Scott and I headed to his home town of Almonte looking for first descents…      What we found was a perfect  25 footer beside a generating station that is under heavy construction. Devyn and I  both stomped the drop, and named it DK Falls. 

DK FAlls

The next day we ventured into the Capital City of Canada, Ottawa. It was a perfect day, we crossed Champlain Bridge into Quebec and headed up to the Deschenes Ruins. The wave was great, greening regularly and producing lots and lots of air.

Flashback at the Ruins

For more info and photos from the first descent or the ruins  check out        Airborn Athletics       … or Level Six….

Today we are getting ready to head back  to West Virginia for finals! ( and my last week of high school ) 

Predator Helmets.com…   New lids are amazing!

Stay Classy, 

Keegan Grady

The 8^th annual Level Six capital cup was this past weekend in Ottawa city. It was a warm sunny day and the competition was fierce. Tents were set up and it was a day of fun starting in the early morning with the competitors meeting. 

The open women started out the event with the top 3 paddlers including Melanie Gravel, Sandra Kiviaho, and our very own Julia Fisher. All of the women did great some of them it was their first competition ever.  The judges were also top notch and included Billy Harris, Keegan Grady, Kalob Grady along with others.  The women did great. Up next was the Pro Junior girls which included three New River Academy ladies Alex Shallhorn, Palmer Miller, Tracy D’Arbeloff, and precious student Katie Kowalski. The 

It was a tough competition all of these girls are very good friends and were nailing moves. Blunts and roundhouses were their game.  Katie Kowaski dominated the junior girls category with Alex Shallhorn in a close second. The competition was really kicking off now with the red bull tent and all of the visitors hopefully some of them will get into paddling. The junior men was a big category with eleven competitors. The New River Academy boys defiantly brought their stuff to the table crushing the competition. Issaac Holden, Josh Mills, and Keegan Grady made it into the finals with Keegan sweeping up the competition with a score of 106.  His little brother Kalob Grady missed out on finals by a couple of tricks. The Men’s category was huge with twenty-nine competitors, with three heats. Four New River guys were bringing the fire and fear to the other competitors eyes. Jason Craig got into to finals and placed fourth. Jason is only 15 and was up against men who were a lot older then him. The top three paddlers were Dave Nieuwenhuis, Billy Harris, and Joel Kowalski, who is the new level six capital cup champion. 

The day was full of fun festivities with a BBQ and tents from local paddling clubs. The Nepean high school was nice enough to volunteer and help out the event. Tyler Lawlor did a great job hosting the event. Hopefully New River Academy can be back for the 9th annual Level Six Capital Cup.

Emery Kate Tillman 

New River Academy is full of young rippers who are always going HUGE. But a lot of the time the footage of the huge moves doesn’t make it to your eyes. I’ve had an idea for a while to solve this problem for a while and now I am finally putting it into action. Every Day I will be posting up a clip of the biggest move thrown that day in Raw Un Editted form, just the way we saw it. We have had Suprise for the past two days in a row so we have a few extra tricks as the kick off to this new idea.

The First is a PAn Am from yours Truly. The funny thing about it was that it stalled out half way through. Let me know what you think. The Resolution isn’t the best but we’ll be fixing that soon!