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The Final Four Of The Werner Golden Stroke Contest
Saturday, May 1st, 2010OK this was a hard round to judge, actually all the rounds have been hard to judge. So much gold, so much. This is the final round of voting and the winner receives a brand new Werner Premium Grade Paddle. Each person gets one vote so make it count. Now gold.
Contestant #1.
First going against the public vote in a 3 – 2 decision Matt Porter moves to the finals as the sole video competitor.
the steady rhythmic pulse of wood against metal is the soundtrack for a study on friendships and movement in a classic southeastern gorge
Contestant #2
Winning by popular vote each round along the way we have a shot of Adriene Levknecht taken by Candice Sanders.
Green Queen Gold Ohy Myey
Contestant #3
A strong submission oozing Gold, shot by Ryan Zimmy of Andy Lichtenheld in Minnesota.
oozing gold!
Contestant #4
Rounding out the final four we have another Raven’s Fork submission this time of Charlie Mix shot by Joey Jarrel.
Oh yeah this is a sick photo
OK click on the pictures, blow them up, look each submission over carefully. Place your single vote below and Monday the winner will be granted a brand new Werner Premium Grade Paddle.
The Final Vote For The Werner Golden Stroke Competition
- Contestant #1...The Tallulah shot by Matt Porter (16%, 61 Votes)
- Contestant #2...Adriene Levchnect shot by Candice Sanders (32%, 125 Votes)
- Contestant #3... Andy Lichtenheld shot by Ryan Zimmy (38%, 150 Votes)
- Contestant #4...Charlie Mix by Joey Jarel (14%, 57 Votes)
Total Voters: 393
Loading ...Day 2 Of Voting For The Werner Golden Strokes Contest
Thursday, April 29th, 2010In a rare show of bipartisanship the judges agreed with the audience voting. Without further a due lets get going with our matchups.
MATCH UP 1
Starting off we have a video match between a trip report on The Tallulah produced by Matt Porter vs. Trash Can Falls by Dave ‘Gorbachev’.
the steady rhythmic pulse of wood against metal is the soundtrack for a study on friendships and movement in a classic southeastern gorge
MATCH UP 2
Next up it is Candice Sanders going head to head with Wesley Bradley.
Green Queen Gold Ohy Myey
Nice LVM sticker Wesley!!!
MATCH UP 3
Our next match up is an oozing Gold shot by Ryan Zimmy of Andy Lichtenheld in Minnesota vs the fabulous Suck Creek shot of Ryan Snodgrass.
oozing gold!
Suck, Sucky, Sucks so good. Chattanooga staple Suck Creek
MATCH UP 4
The final round of the day features a Joey Jarrel shot vs. a photo by Mark Taylor of of unknown paddler going left at Sunshine on The Green River N.C.
Oh yeah this is a sick photo
Haven't seen this angle before...nice!
OK Voting is available below and tomorrow we will be down to the final four! Thanks everyone and good luck.
Loading ...Round 1 Of Voting For The Golden Strokes Competition
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010First let us say it was a real pleasure to see all the gold being laid down on rivers around the world. Thanks to everyone who submitted a photo or a video! It was no easy feat narrowing the field down to 16, but after much arguing around the office it is done. Each of the 4 judges will vote and and the audience will count as one vote totaling 5 votes. Make sure to click on each picture to view it on a larger scale, and we will narrow it down showdown style until we have a winner. Now aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh, gold!
Round 1
We’ll start off with crowd favorite Wesley Bradley on The Watauga shot by Matt Dalton vs. Matthew Duke on The West Prong shot by Chris Gallaway.
Matt g-stroking!
Nice LVM sticker Wesley!!!
Round 2
Next up we have a video showdown between Dave ‘Gorbachev’ and Max Posner
Traveling over spring break for 8 days of paddling in Nelson County, VA, western NC and Beckley, WV.
Round 3
A couple of heavyweights going at it: A submission by Ryan Zimmy of unknown paddler in Minnesota against a Tom Janney on East Fork of The Kaweah
oozing gold!
Kaweeeeaaaaaahhhhh!
Round 4
Ryan Snodgrass on Suck Creek vs. a shot by Darrin McQuoid of Stephen Wright on Upper Middle Consumes.
Suck, Sucky, Sucks so good. Chattanooga staple Suck Creek
Stephen Wright Golden Stroke
Round 5
A duel between Mike McKay shot by Ray Canton on the Mastigouche in QC vs. Charlie Mix on The Raven’s Fork shot by Joey Jarrell.
shine
Oh yeah this is a sick photo
Round 6
Another video showdown…yes we love video. Here we have a video of squriting sent in by Weaver vs. a trip report on The Tallulah produced by Matt Porter.
2130cfs @ three lynx
first probe…
http://www.sinkspots.org/index.php?spot_id=265
the steady rhythmic pulse of wood against metal is the soundtrack for a study on friendships and movement in a classic southeastern gorge
Round 7
Now we have a couple of interesting angles. The first sent in by Eric Adst of Chris Morelli on The Beaver River in N.Y. vs. a photo by Mark Taylor of of unknown paddler going left at Sunshine on The Green River N.C.
Rad, What's he looking at, beautiful, odd, golden for sure
Haven't seen this angle before...nice!
Round 8
Finally we have two more powerful photos going head to head. First sent in by Ryan Allen and shot by Nick Murphy some crazy subterranean kayaking vs. a Candice Sanders shot of Adriene Levknecht on the mighty Raven’s Fork River.
ohhh yes, golden nastyness, aaahhhhhhh
Green Queen Gold Ohy Myey
OK there you have it. We had so many great photos, over 200, that the task has been impossible picking the best ones from each photographer. We tried to create some interesting match ups so give them all a good look. Props again to everyone out there making the magic happen on the river. Place your vote below, good luck and check back in tomorrow as we continue to narrow it down.
Round 1 Voting, Place Your Votes Below One Vote Per Round Please.
- Round 8...Adriene Levknecht flying high? (40%, 163 Votes)
- Round 8...Ryan Allen underground (11%, 46 Votes)
- Round 7...Closeup Challenge, Mark Taylor photo? (35%, 143 Votes)
- Round 7...Closeup Challenge, Eric Adst photo (9%, 35 Votes)
- Round 6...Video of The Tallulah (28%, 114 Votes)
- Round 6...Video of Squirting (9%, 39 Votes)
- Round 5...Charlie Mix (31%, 128 Votes)
- Round 5...Mike McKay (27%, 109 Votes)
- Round 4...Upper Middle Consumes (16%, 65 Votes)
- Round 4...Suck Creek (24%, 100 Votes)
- Round 3...Janney (21%, 85 Votes)
- Round 3...Zimmy (24%, 100 Votes)
- Round 2...Spring Break Trip (19%, 80 Votes)
- Round 2...Trash Can Falls (27%, 111 Votes)
- Round 1...Matthew Duke (19%, 78 Votes)
- Round 1...Wesley Bradley (28%, 114 Votes)
Total Voters: 411
Loading ...April 26th Giant Final Dump Of Gold
Monday, April 26th, 2010OK this is it for Gold dumps. Thanks to everyone who submitted and the showdown begins tomorrow!
Hey guys,
So I couldn’t let this contest end with out sending some pics in from the great mank state of Colorado. First up is extreme tuber Rolf Kelly on the black canyon’s waterfall before the fun mile long portage. Next up is sensei Stafford showing all of us how to style cool world on the classic colorado wilderness run, the big south. The 3rd pic is another shot of Rolf Kelly on the best boof on the front range on upper south boulder creek. The last pic is of the huckin duckie Joe keck huckin his meat off of escalante falls on escalante creek, some good early season mud runoff.
Enjoy!
-Tom Janney
Black Gold, Canyon Gold that is.
Sensi Gold
Boof da Mank in a kayak or tube.
Huck the golden duck.
LVM,
Yes, its true, attached to this email is a golden stroke so mighty it could only be performed with one hand. I found myself on Sect.IV safety boating for the Georgia State University outdoor program, Touch The Earth, on Friday. In true scumbag form I was in all borrowed gear; from boat to rope. When we arrived to Seven Foot Falls, a beam of light mellifluously fell down from the heavens and struck me. All I could do was grab the rail of my boat and hold on. Also, we spotted a young nubile maiden, in the form of a river siren at Bull Sluice. We managed to snap a quick photo only as evidence that you can gaze your eyes upon a nymph without falling into their mythological booby trap.
Peace,
Tim Madison
PS-photos by C. Tortorige
Borrowed Gold
We may have a winner....Gold.
Yo LVM-
Here are my submissions for Golden Stroke.
Please take note of my paddle- lightning doesn’t strike twice in the same place!
Adios Migos,
Taft Sibley
CrossBow- Photographer Unknown
Morgan2&4- Kirk Eddleman
Kick Your Dog- John Trembley
Crossbow Gold
MorganGoldenStein
MorganGoldenExemplify
Kick kick kick gold gold gold dog dog your your.
Yeah LVM, some Goldies from a few years back:
First photo of me with a little Frankenstein Gold, taken by Chris Roberts. Second shot of Bo Colbert running Magilla, taken by Brian Perretta.
Thanks for the contest, seen some real cool shots over the weeks.
John Fuller
Embrace dat Gold
Elk? Antelope? Goat? no it's The Moose!
Dear LVM,
Greetings from the North East! Here are some pictures from Maine, New Hampshire, and Connecticut. All high def pictures are by John Wallace. Snapshots by jcass, and West branch of the Penobscot photos by Danielle Martin (soon to be Mrs. jcass-Martin). Rocky Gorge on the Swift photographer is unknown. Paddlers: jcass, Jesse Bielich, and Eben Smith and the ever classic Ryan Davis. Of note… John Wallace has a featured photograph of a lovely bag of garbage from the Green River Cleanup of 2009 on your website, and is the proprietor of kayakpsych.com. He has recently moved to NC from Connecticut, where we frequently visit our friend and pay homage to your gnar-gnar. Thanks for the years of inspiration LVM, and please enjoy some North East Gold! HAPPY EARTH DAY!!!!!
Sincerely,
jcass
Team Kayakpsych
gggooollldd
Cow sluicey goldy smoldy
au
jcassgoldyliscious
jcassmygoldenass
jcasssassafrassgoldenass
Turkey Season Gold
Mysterious Gold
LVM Crew-
Here are three entries for the Golden Stroke contest. Here we have:
-Jason Dillow strokin off the right side of El Horrendo (spanish for The Horrendo)
-Johnny Pilson golden stroking into familiar territory at Toilet Bowl on the Green River.
-Eli Smith planting a golden stroke coming out of Gorilla North on Bottom Creek up here in VA
Enjoy!
Jon Crain
Dillow Gold
A Handsome Man on The Toilet
Golden Random Goldy
You know what its all about. Chillin on the home river with the boys, summertime, running the shit!! photo: ryan bednar—-paddler: chris houston
Thanks,
chris houston
C1 Gold
Way to pick up the second blade Chris
Kreykes, Daniel
show details Apr 20 (6 days ago)
Hey guys, I’ve got some Golden Strokes for you. The first one is Jay Wolfe strokin’ into the hole at Oceana. The second one is me on Baby Falls, and the third is Graham Jones blasting through the second wave at Corkscrew on the Chattooga Sec.4
Oceana Gold
Baby Gold
Ahhhhhhh Gold
LVM,
Here are a few shots for the golden stroke contest your welcome to put up on the site.
1) First off is me boofing through a rainbow on the Devils Punchbowls in Colorado. (photo Greg Watson)
2) Mac McGee in Darwins Hole in the Laurel Fork
3) Colin Hunt on Headless Horseman
4) Will Stubblefield coming through the slot drop of Trashcan Falls
5) Eli Smith on Laurel Falls
6) Matt West’s well timed boof on the Watauga
7) Frank Stansberry with a golden ninja-death-boof stroke
- Clay Lucas
A little bright but ehhh
Ah yes the Gold
Goldenbrightness
Ahhh likey this one
Golden
gauld
Crossbow da gold
Attached are my submissions for the Golden Stroke contest. Enjoy!!!!
The Photos are as labeled:
Jake Risch throwing in a final stroke on “Biggie Smalls” at Smalls Falls, Sandy River, ME.
Myself, John W.,, PFD on the Dragg Strip, Gragg Prong, NC shot by James Capozzi.
O.J. cleaning the “top drop” at Smalls Falls, Sandy River, ME.
Steve Krajewski throwing a “golden stroke” entering Zwicks on the Green River Narrows
Ted Devoe golden boofing on Fall Creek in Massachusettes on one few of the Fall releases
John Wallace
Bigge Smalls Gold
Drag Strip Gold
The Juice
Green is Gold, Jerry's Baddle is Fun
Oh yes wooden Gold!
Here is one mo’ bit o’ gold I found, enjoy!
Max
Arrgghhhh Goooolllddd
John,
Clearly there is only one place for a Gold Rush, and thats Cali. Without further ado:
1) Darin McQuoid caught in the golden rays of fall sun, entry drop SF Feather.
2) Culley Thomas bring home the bullion on the 2nd descent of upper upper Mono Creek.
3) Tim Carlton showing 24 carat form, Hospital Rock, MF Kaweah.
4) Macy Burnham firing the gold standard for boofs, Triple Drop, EF Kaweah
5) Eric Giddens still looking for a gold medal, Unknown Soldier, Cherry Creek race.
6) Ryan Moore planting the gilded blade, Ash Mountain, MF Kaweah.
See you out West suckas!
-Ian
This is Cali Gold
Oh oh oh the gold
Hospital Gold
Cali has some Gold
East Fork of The Kaweahgolda
Very hairy Cherry
Ash gold
Hey guys,
The first photo here is of Eric Chance taking one hell of a Golden Stroke at a not so famous rapid. The next shot is of Rob Lienes getting very golden at another not so famous rapid. Last is Katie Worley getting here gold at the top of Ampitheater on the not so famous Tallulah Gorge.
Thanks,
Belly Millowski
Taking the Golden Chance
Gold
My golden lady boofenem
John – hope it’s not too late to submit. I found this in the archives: Freddy, UCC. Pure.
Caleb Coaplen
Fred and The Golden Stroke
golden stroke last day entry it’s only 11:25
This is shot by Candace Sanders….it is Adriene on the Mike T’s Raven Fork. It is quite brown & gold!
Later boyz Evan
Green Queen Gold Ohy Myey
OK that is it for Golden Stroke Submissions. Actually Kirk Eddleman sent in about a terabyte of goldies but he won the Werner contest last year and we had to disqualify him for the glutinous submission. Thanks to everyone for the images and video and we will start the showdown Wednesday Morning. Good luck everyone!
April 21st, Aureate, Aurelian, Auric, Aurous…All Things Gold
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010OK submissions for the Werner Golden Strokes Contest are over. Feel free to continue to send in those golden moments throughout the season as we love to see them, but this years contest has capped it’s submissions.
Now we will perform a golden dump the next few days and put up all the photos and video. Then next week we will go live with online voting/judge in a head to head battle of the sweet 16 photos and vids. Essentially we will put the entries in a bracket tourney format and through single elimination battle it out until we find a champ. Good luck everyone and now, gold.
What up LVM!
This is a pretty cool sequence shot of me on sunshine, taken and edited by Rob Hurst about two years ago. Pretty sweet angle and lighting with the fish eye lens. Mr. Hurst does good work!
Peace,
Ryan DeKay
Let the gold shine down.
Hi LVM,
Here are few photos from the past two weekends on Vancouver Island. MG_4556 is of Jakub Drnec running the high water entrance to the Middle Gordon River. MG_4595 is of Braden Fandrich running Landslide on the Middle Gordon. MG_4583 is of Chris Mennell running the entrance to the Middle Gordon. MG_4918 is Jakub Drnec on the end of the 1st canyon the the Lens River. MG_5003 is Joe Box on the notch of Stairway to hell on the Lens River.
Hope these are interesting for you.
Thanks,
Dave Prothero
Gordon Gold
Au
auriforgoldelicious
gold indeed
Golden Stairs
Hey LVM,
Here are a few strokes that made my balls bounce. Thanks for checking them
out.
Jeff West
Golden Bouncing Balls
True Golden Love
Sail Gold
Hey Y’all- Just dumped a bunch of photos off my camera, and thought
I’d send ya a couple “Golden Strokes” from my recent exploits.
#1- photo of me by Charley Bartlett, Boxcar on the North Fork French Broad.
#2- Photo of Jon Weiner by me on Looking Glass Creek
Take care, see yall around
Tyler Boeing
Golden Fork of The Third Oldest River in The World
Tyler Gold
Hey,
Picture is of John Trembly and I squirting Fayette Station on the New in WV at 22,500 cfs. this was our second lap on this rapid after squirt the lower new that day. Hand paddling the new in a squirt boat with that much flow was out of control! but so sick! we were hitting rides in our creeking vests up to 30 seconds! Anyways in this photo we decided to do it with no pfd.
Taylor Martin
Oh oh some unique gold.
Hey guys,
first picture is me on West Cherry Creek taken by the Taft Sibley. Second photo was taken when I was ball’n as a child. thought it would be a good picture since i had a gold shirt on.
Thanks,
Taylor Martin
No comment
Twice the squirt taken at halls of karma by Jon Shannon. Picture is of Steve O’keefe and I playing in the seams in the eddy. the second picture was Taken of me at Fishing with Ghandi on Tremont last fall. Hands down the best spot in Tennessee. Sorry Cowbell you’re second now.
Taylor Martin
Double yo
GhandiGoldenGooyGoodness
And finally for the day a combo entry of video and photos by former Russian President Dave Gorbachev.
Hey LVM,
Was just checkin out the contest, and thought I would turn up the heat and include some new stuff to my entry. These Golden Strokes are courtesy of Joshua Wall on a recent trip to the Raven’s Fork in Cherokee, NC. Southeast is where it’s at!!
First two shots are of myself dropping in to Mike Tyson’s Punchout. Third is myself at Caveman- aka the best boof in the southeast!
Enjoy,
Dave
p.s. real last name is (Ledford). I just made the Gorbachev thing up for yahoo. thanks guys
au
gold puncher
g-o-l-d
Josh Wall, Mark Taylor, and Dave Ledford make a spring trip up to the Raven’s Fork in Cherokee, NC.
Spring Squirt Update
Monday, April 19th, 2010
This weekend, Paul, Dave, Todd, Thomas, and Will went to the Noli to check out Cowbell at 1300cfs. Nice little spring dip.
Gold Morning Everyone…It’s The 15th of April
Thursday, April 15th, 2010We like video here at LVM so let’s start off with a golden submission by Mark Zakutansky.
Hey hey!!! Up here in the Poconos of Pennsylvania… the land of the Delaware Water Gap (Raymonskill and Hornbecks) and steep creeking galore… we have an EPIC spring with the entire month of March showing good flows all across the board.
The video link above is Dave Meister of Danville, PA running the 30 footer on the rarely run Stony Creek, which is a steep creeking tributary to the Lehigh River. Its sees very little traffic and this local gem drops 600 total feet of elevation in just under 2 miles.
The video is by myself, Mark Zakutansky (C1).
You can download it off vimeo if you are so inclined. Here’s a picture of the same drop, C1 style, just before sticking a huge boof…http://picasaweb.google.com/mzakutan/StonyCreekLehighTrib3142010#5449985242541906514
Thanks and keep up the great work down there, we’ll keep merking it up here in the Poconos, rain dependent.
Peace,
Mark Z.
3/14/2010 Lehigh Tributary
Next up is Mark Taylor…
Hey guys,
Hope there’s been lots of great paddling for yall. Figured I would send in a few pictures for the contest. If any of yall know me, I have not been having great luck with paddles lately and am not much of a handpaddler. Being a college student is fun but having no money gets kinda old. Hope these are worthy. Thanks and enjoy this great weather on the river. Thanks to all that took pictures. Show some love to a needy kayaker fellow boaters!
In order: anaconda, Duane Gibson trying to keep his head on his neck, gorilla, notch, j wall stylin go left, basking in the sun, stateline, pencil sharpener
Good lines to all,
Mark
The snake and the raven.
Duane...keep those arms in.
pretty pretty pretty
Haven't seen this angle before...nice!
The Green Race is fun!
Finally a female entry! Looking good Nikki, but next time send an image that is at least 500 pixels wide.
Amos Ivey took this picture of me last summer boofing the middle line of Rewind on the Watauga. Amos has taken some amazing pictures over the years but this is one of my favorites. You can clearly see the last stroke taken to launch this boof and make a clean landing. I love how the water is falling away from the blade of the paddle and the boat seems to be completely out of the water. Thanks Amos!
-Nikki Malatin
OK that is all the eye candy for today. Check back in tomorrow as Eric Adist throws us some really unique gold!
