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!

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,

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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.

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!

Here we have a combo entry from Dave Gorbachev. Looks like these boys have been taking full advantage of the wet and juicy spring the southeast has had this year. Our post tomorrow will venture away from the southeast, but as we look over the submissions California has little representation. We have been hearing of some early season Dinkey and a few other creeks and rivers…let’s see’em Cali!

Hey guys,

video wouldnt load right. here a link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hXN40YzlMM .
first part of the video is where the good strokin’s at. can take some time to edit if needed.

Third run of the Monk

More gold here for you. We have a shot here from Wesley Bradley on The Watauga…the LVM sticker doesn’t hurt.
Hey John, Will & the rest of the LVM Crew!

Please enter this photo of me into the hunt for the new Werner Premium Paddle! The shot was taken by Matt Dalton at the top of Stateline Falls this past Sunday (3/28/10). The shot turned out to be a great angle to show the “Golden Stroke” which resulted in boof-o-licious good time & me feeling like a true Sexy Kayaking Beast!! I even got the LVM logo in the shot with the sticker on my boat (that should count as a double entry) Thanks & have a nice day!

Nice LVM sticker Wesley!!!

And now for a little Big Creek action sent in by Matthew Duke. Matt these are great and we are glad that paddle didn’t break on you out there:)

Here are a few golden strokes in honor of the days it was easy to get over to big creek for an after work session.

Matt Duke

Very nice!

gold gold and more gold

Finally a submission by Chris Roberts completing the threesome of Golden Strokes! Let us know what you think of these three and help us narrow it down. Which one of these three is your favorite LVM viewer? Check back Monday as we unload many more Golden Stroke photos and a few special videos! Happy Easter everyone.

Two more golden photos. 1st up is Mr. John Grace off the Monkey while Al G inspects the line! Second is yours truly with a unique shot going off the pad! Sorry, got lots o Monkey pics! First pic by me, second by Stephen Hughes

Nice shot Chris.

Chris Roberts spankin' it!

We have quite a few Golden Strokes to show off and they all look pretty good. We will decide the paddle winner by combining viewer comments on the photos with the judges scores. Let us know what you think and good luck everyone!

Don’t know if it’ll make the cut but what good is this pic doin just sittin around my hard-drive? Freemont Shields gold strokin from the get-go. OBJ on a snowy, June colorado day.

Gold by Kent Perillo

We have been busy getting LVM #33 off to the replicators and have been slacking on posting everyones Golden Strokes. To make up for it we are giving away a brand new Werner Premium Paddle on May 3rd for the best Golden Stroke photo or video submitted in the month of April. Email them to lvmvideo@gmail.com all month and tell us the story behind the image to be in the hunt for the new paddle. Here are a few from Charlie Mix to start us off.

*******SPECIAL NOTE********
4-20-10, will be the final day to submit your Golden Strokes. We repeat that, April 20th, will be the last day to submit Golden Stroke photos or video for the Werner Paddles Golden Strokes of April contest. We’ll continue to post submissions and have online voting the last week of April and announce the winner on May, 3, 2010.
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hey guys,

thanks,
-charlie mix

Adam Goshorn, on fire after running Little River Canyon Falls

Adam Goshorn again at Groove Tube, Green River N.C.

Johnny Shales, Hell Hole, Ocoee River, TN

Here is a little more eye candy from LVM #33…a packed to the hilt issue. This segment, brought to you by Dagger features young Jedi Pat Keller doing what he does. For more Dagger action come see Evan Garcia’s premiere of ‘Dream Result’ at the Asheville Pizza Company, Thursday, April 1. 187 feet of world record meat hucking on the big screen!

Pat Keller has been on the river since he was 3 years old. A two time Green Race Winner, Teva Mountain Games Champion, and all around multi-sport athlete Pat is easily argued as one of the best paddlers in the world. This is an action packed segment with Pat showing us how it is done. Available in full on LVM #33.