The Tame The Tyger Race has been going on for 11 years now and has grown to a full blown festival. Here Jenna explains a little about the festival and the float/race itself. Thanks for having LVM down for a premiere and see you next year.

Some Wake Digger Action For You.

Don’t know where we were going with that title, but The Werner Golden Stroke Competetion continues. Being that the weekend is coming we are going to unload a large amount of gold. Here we go.

Paddler: Mike McKay
Photo Credit: Philip Kompass
River: Mastigouche, QC
Paddle: Werner, Stikine 197 30 degree

gold indeed!

shine

Now a foursome from Geoff Kohl

Jen Watson crushing through a big one in Bhutan. Photo by Geoff Kohl.

Gold 1 from Geoff

Gold 2 from Geoff

Geoff Gold 3

Gold 4

Here is a beautiful set from Tom Janney.

Hey Guys,
Here are a few golden strokes from a spring break trip to the golden state.
Pic#1 Nathan Hunkapiller on Chuck Kern slide on the hospital rock section of the middle kaweah
Pic #2 A double golden stroke from Christian Cook and Matt “the Ginger” Gelso on Indian falls near quincy,ca
Pic #3 A golden plug by Peter Farmelo on the devil’s canyon run of the middle feather river
-Tom Janney

a golden rapid no doubt

fun times

cold and gold

Hey Guys,
Here are some more golden strokes from the devil’s postpile run on the middle san joaquin from last summer.
Pic #1 Jim Janney on the double drop day 1
Pic #2 Jim Janney emerging from the 2nd crack in the earth gorge
Pic #3 Kirk Eddleman on a sweet boof on the boogie below the fish creek confluence
Pic #4 Jim Janney in the first gorge
Enjoy!
-Tom

double gold

granite is gold, gold is granite

boof da gold

pretty

A little more Cali-Gold.

As requested, a little Cali representing in the early season.

Darin McQuoid

Daniel Brasuell, NF Kaweah

Stephen Wright Golden Stroke

Stephen Wright Upper Middle Consumes

Thanks for all the entries and may all your strokes over the weekend be Gold!

So many good images and videos out there it is ridiculous. We like them all and will get them posted, so if you sent us an image and it hasn’t made the site yet stand by, it is coming.

Up first GRL, Chris Roberts shows us a couple more from his home river on The Green Narrows.

Here we have two nominees: 1st Wilson Bell golden stroking off the Monkey during a practice session for 2009 Jerry’s Baddle. Second is the legendary Eric Stritmatter(?) showing some true golden prowess at Sunshine! Pics by Chris Roberts

Monk

Stritty rules!

Next up…

Dear LVM,

Mike

Midnight Hole, Big Creek

The Notch, it is scary!

The notch worked out and now for some lightning riding.

Next up representing our man Ryan Snodgrass.

Hey guys,

Thanks,
Ryan Snodgrass

Goforth and be gold

We likey

Suck, Sucky, Sucks so good. Chattanooga staple Suck Creek

And one final entry for today.

I know you can’t have a shot of class II win this contest, but I think
this shot is better than any hardcore shots I have, although I may
enter some of those as well. Paddler is Karl Whipp on Big South Fork
of the Cumberland. And if you want a higher res version to prove he
is actually taking a Golden Stroke, let me know.

Jim Janney

The Big South Fork of The Cumberland River, Tennessee. Nice perspective!

…check back a little later today for our Golden Strokes photo and video post, it is a good one! For now get your 2010 subscription here.

Some more awesome carnage from LVM 33. Shipping now! Head to store.lvmvideo.com and subscribe to have 2 hours of incredible kayaking content shipped to your door 4 times a year.

There are some great photos coming in one after another! Let’s get straight into it. Here are a few really good ones taken by Chris Gallaway, be sure to check out Chris’s movie about the legendary Green Race here.
Hello LVM,
Hope you guys are enjoying these warm spring days and getting out on the water. I thought I’d send in a few submissions for your Golden Stroke contest. In the first photo we have Matthew Duke executing a beautiful boof during a low-water summer day on the West Fork of the Pigeon. Next up is Mike Patterson dropping into Cave Falls on the Linville last fall. And last, we have the great Chris Gragtmans running Soc’em Dog (with a considerable audience) shortly after he won the nonexistent Chattooga Race this past January. Enjoy, and thanks for putting on the contest,

–
Horizonline Pictures
www.horizonlinepictures.com

Matt g-stroking!

Mike...Linville...Gold

Chris G-stroking...Chattooga River

Coming in from The North Fork of The Blackwater.

Hey LVM!
Here’s a pic of my brother, Tim Smith, Golden Strokin’ on the North Fork of the Blackwater, WV on my birthday weekend in March! With the heavy snow pack up in the Canaan Valley, we had good flows on the North Fork all weekend long!

Topher Smith

Very Nice Topher

Some California for all the loyal LVM viewers.

Hey LVM’ers,
Here is a pic from the hospital rock run on the middle fork of the kaweah from a recent spring break trip out to cali, thanks Tom Michael Janney, enjoy.
-Tom

Kaweeeeaaaaaahhhhh!

And finally…

So I’m out of class and on my way to paddle our local run and I get a call from my friend…”Did you know you’re on the front page of LVM? DUDE, you won TEVAS!”

ps. I’m greedy and just snapped my paddle. Here is my shot at capturing a golden stroke. If I’m on a roll why not?

Thanks for the entry, but this one may not win the paddle:)

Danny you are a professional in our eyes and keep it hairy side up from now on. Check back later today as we launch another Daily Digger.

LVM 33 will be shipping soon and chock full o good carnage, like this:

Here’s some carnage from LVM Issue 33, due out in a few weeks. Check it!

Don’t forget there is a Werner Premium Grade Paddle on the line here.

Up first we have…
Hey Guys,

P.S. Should you be so gracious as to choose our photo as the winner, Nate deserves the paddle (Unless of course you want to give out two! ; )

Gold from Vermont

Here we have a ‘first timer’ at Stateline Falls…
Alex Knupp dropping Stateline Falls on the Watauga for his first time
The photo was taken by Matt Dalton.

Alex Knupp

Stateline

Another entry by the ever sexy??? Wesley Bradley
Hey John, Will & the rest of the LVM Crew!

Please enter this photo of my wife (Jennifer Bradley) & me into the hunt for the new Werner Premium Paddle! The shot was taken by Steve Moore at Alien Boof on the Upper Ocoee this past summer (7/25/09). The shot really illustrates a great tandem “Golden Stroke” in our custom black & white Dynamic Duo wedding boat!! Thanks & have a nice day!

Duo Boof

And the final pictures for today, a pair from the tea colored waters of Minnesota and Michigan sent in by Ryan Zimny. Lots of great shots here and stay tuned tomorrow because there is more gold on the way.

Rada Race action!

Saving the best for last...cmon this shot is oozing gold!