{"id":121483,"date":"2022-10-14T14:57:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T18:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=121483"},"modified":"2022-10-14T17:43:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T21:43:51","slug":"kingston-street-luger-raising-money-to-represent-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/kingston-street-luger-raising-money-to-represent-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Kingston street luger raising money to represent Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

A GoFundMe campaign<\/a> has launched that aims to raise $2,500 to help a Kingstonian street luger travel to Argentina to represent Canada in the World Skate Games. <\/span>Nick Kamink for Team Canada Street Luge says it\u2019s not that different from ice luge.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re on the road, and on wheels instead of blades. You negotiate the track as quick as you can without crashing\u2026We ride an alumnium, sometimes steel carbon, board,\" says Kamink.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kamink says in street luge you sit two inches off the ground:<\/span><\/p>\n\nhttps:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Nick-Kamink-CLIP.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

According to Kamink, the record speed in street luge is close to 168 km\/hr or just over 100 miles\/hr.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019re on your board going down a hill and you\u2019re coming up on 110 to 120 km\/hr, you get a bit of a sense of tunnel vision, the world around you is irrelevant\u2026You\u2019re just focused on getting down that hill,\u201d says Kamink.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kamink says this is the first time he and his teammate Kolby Parks<\/a> will be travelling outside of North America.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s super exciting, I haven\u2019t done too much racing beyond Canada and The United States... In a championship race, the top two racers were deemed to be the representatives for Canada, me and my teammate Kolby won that, so we were chosen to represent Canada down in San Juan. Me and Kolby grew up together, we went to elementary and high school together,'' says Kamink.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kamink built his first board in a high school shop class, and has been involved in street luge for over 20 years.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"It was unique, it was exciting, it wasn\u2019t that expensive, you could make your own board, it was very little maintenance. Where else can you lay down on a board and cruise around at 120 km\/hr? It\u2019s definitely worth the rush,\u201d says Kamink<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Kamink\u2019s former employer Atkinson Home Hardware is sponsoring the GoFundMe campaign, and has already donated $300.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve got really good staff over there who are willing to help...They jumped all over it. They\u2019re kind of spearheading the whole thing,\u201d says Kamink.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The street luge events are scheduled for Nov. 8-12 in San Juan. Kamink says he hopes to raise the funds by the beginning of November.<\/span><\/p>\n

Listen to the full CFRC interview with Nick Kamink below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A GoFundMe campaign has launched that aims to raise $2,500 to help a Kingstonian street luger travel to Argentina to represent Canada in the World Skate Games. Nick Kamink for Team Canada Street Luge says it\u2019s not that different from ice luge. \u201cWe\u2019re on the road, and on wheels instead of blades. You negotiate the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":121485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[204],"tags":[19634,15004,19632,19633,19635,19629,19631,19630],"radio":[13056],"origine":[267,13051,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121483"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121682,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121483\/revisions\/121682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121483"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=121483"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=121483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}