Playak News Flash 2009-03-01

Playak News Flash - March 1, 2009

News Watch Headlines

Tom Parker: Falling Down #3 Back to Norway once again with Luke Farrington, one of the UK's young guns, chatting about his descent of this sporting number last July…Kittlebreaker Fossen is located at the top of the Raundal near Voss, on a tributary to the Raundalselva itself.

Immersion Research: More Mexico…First Al Seseca Race We would like to thank Immersion Research for their continued to support of whitewater paddling. In particular your support for the 1st annual kayak race on the Al Seseca River near Tlapycoyan, Mexico which occurred just after New Years 09.

Beat Rüttimann: Uganda In the meantime I'm back from Uganda for almost a week. It's quite difficult to put impressions and experiences into words. Nevertheless I try to write down some lines: Because of my studies I couldn't go for more than two weeks and I thought it wouldn't be worth to travel that far for such a short time. But now I see this from a different point of view.

Jackson Kayak: Pakistan, Indus River - Day Sixteen In my short career of paddling, Pakistan wins the prize for the lowest cost of living once in country. Being a notoriously cheap kayaker, this motel on our fifteenth night was right up my alley at thirty cents per person. We never spent a night in a heated building while in Pakistan, so as an added bonus, it was nice and one warm.

Indigenous Boats: Boats of Bangladesh Bangladesh is virtually all river delta. The Bramaputra and its hundreds of tributaries and distributaries cover the entire western half of the country,

canoekayak: Riot: 3 Questions with Steve Fisher When Riot's parent company, Voodoo Technologies, filed for bankruptcy, the rumors started flying. Mismanagement, underhanded business tactics, credit dodging – just a few of the colorful adjectives used to describe Riot's fall. So we had to do what we do: find the real story. While former Voodoo owner Jeff Rivest has respectfully, and repeatedly, denied our requests for an interview, we did the next best thing and sought out Riot's marquee athlete – Steve Fisher. Fisher laid out Rivest's side of the story to Canoe and Kayak as only the confident South African could: with sincerity and opinionated grit refreshing in today's packaged athletic world.

The Lake is the Boss: Pulling in our horns? We apparently have NPS administered National River and Recreation Areas and the National Heritage Areas.

Nature, Kayak and Travel: Discovery Sea Kayaks We feel that we (Discovery Sea Kayaks) hits the top of the list in quality and safety in sea kayak touring for Washington State.

playak.net: In Between Swims: Back to the Core Immersion Research's John Weld swims The Potomac's Horseshoe. I talk with Astral Buoyancy Founder and Owner, Philip Curry, about what it was like to sell Lotus to Patagonia, Coast Guard PFD certification, and the future of PFD's.

Werner: Nikki Gregg Helps SUPers Stretch It Out STANDUP Paddle Magazine has just hit the stands. It is a beautiful mag full of great content about the SUP lifestyle and chocked full of info for the uninitiated about how to get started SUPing.

canoeing.com: Remembering the Reeking River Regatta Organizer Wayne Walls started the event in an effort to clean up the river and halt an Army Corps of Engineers plan confine the river within a paved corridor.

Pesda Press: Sea Kayak 3rd Print Run Sea Kayak by Gordon Brown is being reprinted … again! This means that Sea Kayak has sold 6,000 copies and has had 9,000 copies printed.

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