2021 was for sure one for the books, with so many quality beaters!! The choice was hard, but here are the Level Six KINGS OF BEATERING 2021:
1st TIED : #5 Kayaker Drops 80ft Waterfall Upside Down and Backwards
By: Vincent Naquer (France)
WINS: $200 + Level Six X-Traction Pin Kit (very cool prize!) + 1 – year subscription to KS
1st TIED: #22 Backwards Down La Leona Rio Claro
By: Thomas Prior Carvajal (Chile)
WINS: $200 + Level Six X-Traction Pin Kit (very cool prize!) + 1 – year subscription to KS
2nd TIED: #1 Toxaway Beater
By: Isaac Hull (USA)
WINS: $100 + Level Six Quickthrow Pro throw bag + 1 – year subscription to KS
2nd TIED: #32 Upside Down on a Flooded waterfall in Wales
By: Matthew Wyatt (UK)
WINS: $100 + Level Six Quick Pro throw bag + 1 – year subscription to KS
5th: #21 Pinned in the Guil Gorge
By: Heiner Schumacher (Germany)
WINS: Level Six Compact throw bag + 1 – year subscription to KS
6th: #31 40 Sec Raft Beater on Zambezi Rapid #18
By: Sam Bradford (Zambia)
WINS: 1 – year subscription to KS
7th: #11 Swimming on White Line
By: Connor Gagliano (USA)
WINS: 1 – year subscription to KS
8th: #8 Kayaking Down 100ft Deans Bank
By: Zack Mutton (NZ)
WINS: 1 – year subscription to KS
9th: #3 Toilet Bowl Beater
By: Anton Fedorenko (Ukraine)
WINS: 1 – year subscription to KS
10th: #12 Swiss Beater on the Landquart
By: Roman Cantieni (Switzerland)
WINS: 1 – year subscription to KS
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Disclaimer: Originally, we created the Beater For All Video Contest with fun beaters in mind (kayakers getting worked and swimming out of it (or not…) with a smile. However, we have been receiving more and more video showing scary & sketchy situations, some being real close calls. This created a debate among us, enriched by comments from viewers: should we or should we not show those videos. By encouraging and magnifying carnage and beatering, do we promote it? Do viewers forget the dangers of kayaking? We think otherwise. We came to the conclusion that those videos can be educative and show how dangerous the sport of whitewater kayaking can be, how nasty and quickly can a situation turn from funny to bad. By showing those videos, we firmly believe that these can create discussions and a space for exchange about what could/should have been done to avoid such situations, which will ultimately lead to increases in safety and river knowledge. Note, we never show videos in which people would get hurt badly, or even worse, showing fatal accidents. Last but least, the videos are submitted by their authors, most time the « victims » themselves. NB, We do not poach videos.