Welcome to the
Dallas Texas
Canoe and Kayak Racing Club
Web Site

The Club Commodore Talks

Welcome to the Dallas Texas Canoe and Kayak Racing Club Web site. If your intrests lie in canoe, kayak,OC1 or SUP read on and see what we are all about.

We are a new club of about 10 members consisting of individuals and families who do quite a large variety of paddling. We largely consist of calm water marathon racers with amature and professional ranks. In past years we've hosted local races, had finishers in the La Classique International (Schiwigan, Quebec, Canada), Olympic Training Team and have had an excelent showing in the hardest race in the world the TEXAS WATER SAFARI over the past several the years. We also like to think of ourselves as a well rounded club with a good schedule of pleasure crusers, but this varies form year to year depending on intrest. Whatever your intrest, remember, wheither your trying to become a member of the US Olympic Team or just trying to get across the lake to your favorite fishing spot, we can teach you how to get there with proper techenique and efficiency. So come along and enjoy whatever aspect of canoe and kayaking we can offer you.

The club publishes a cruise and race schedule every year with planned events. Our annual Elm Fork Paddle Race is held early in the spring on the Elm Fork River starting at Trinity Fork Park. We communicate with our web and facebook pages to keep members up to date on the latest club activities.

Our training start as soon as we're done with work during weekday practices and oftentimes early mornings on weekends family duties permitting. We meet weekly during our training on Wednesday Night Practice typicially at Mcinnish Park. We meet around 4:30pm and try to launch boats for our practices at 5:00pm sharp. The seasoned paddlers travel upstream 4 to 6 miles during a workout practicing wake riding, starts, proper technique and generaly building a strong base of endurance. While our newcommers will either stay right in front of the launch site or begin to travel upstream with a veteran team at their side.

We believe that the camarotery of our club, with the group practices are often what creates a great athletes, not to mention great friends!!!

Weekends sometimes mean a Roadtrip to a nearby river race or a little longer trip to other club hosted races.

Whatever your preferance, just give it a go and let us help.