Toad's Wildwater Adventures

Welcome to the kayaking blog of Ben Maynard. I am a 26 year old from Tasmania, Australia, and am currently seeking sponsorship. Present sponsors are the Tasmanian Institute of Sport, City of Greater Geelong/Bis-Sport, Dagger Australia, Geelong Canoe Club, Kayak4Play, and TEVA (links below). After top 20 individual results and a top 5 team result in 2006, my goals are top 10 individually and a teams medal at the next Wildwater World Championships in Italy 2008. Come along for the ride...

Saturday, March 17, 2007

Launch of Rapid Descent Racing

Stewart Bennett


Dan Hall


From today I am teaming up with Stewart Bennett and Dan Hall to form Rapid Descent Racing. RDR will be marketed and run as a high-performance whitewater team, covering the disciplines of wildwater, extreme, river running, marathon and multisport. This will involve a gradual winding-down of Toad's Wildwater Adventures, as much of the content will be transferred over to the RDR site http://rapiddescentracing.blogspot.com/, but with Stew and Dan posting to the new site as well it's sure to be bigger and better!!

Stay tuned! This is an exciting time - RDR wants to take our sport and revolutionise it. We want to change the culture and enhance the image of kayaking in Australia to catch up to the rest of the world, where there are such people as "professional kayakers". It is our hope that such an approach (and an approach as a team) will generate unprecedented levels of exposure, thereby attracting new sponsorship to our sport.

For enquiries and sponsorship oppurtunities email: RapidDescentRacing@hotmail.com.

Cheers,

Ben.