Playak News Flash 2009-04-08

Playak News Flash - April 8, 2009

News Watch Headlines

Playak: New Kayak Brand, New Boat: Big Dog, Kaos Short, fast and dynamic The Kaos is everything a freestyle kayak should be.

Fluid Blog: New kayaking film: Jaunt Thanks a bunch for all your help with this film, hope to see you guys out on a river somewhere soon.

Jackson Kayak: Hometown Throwdown Today I competed in my first Hometown Throwdown at hole 3 on the Truckee River in Reno, NV. We had 22 paddlers show up including 5 women and 1 junior, me! It was super fun to watch everyone compete and have a good time.

Adrian Tregoning: Deepdale Gorge – Day 2 – On and On Sunday, 23 November 2008 and the sun shone bright and hot as I clambered out of the tent. Everyone else was awake already and it felt good to have rested again. It was a glorious day and the only thing that could make it better would be a higher water level. It had dropped in the night but that was just the way things would be. Long time pioneer kayaker Doug Ammons said something in the AW Journal last year, it read as follows: "It just is, and it can't be anything different. If you find yourself wishing it was something different, then that just means you have more to learn." Quite profound. Hopefully I'll get to meet him at some stage in my life. His writing and accomplishment are something to be admired.

Inflatable Kayak Blog: PakBoats XT Touring Kayaks It's been a long wait, but finally the PakBoats XT Touring Kayaks are available for purchase. The reason it took so long was mainly due to the extensive testing and design process they went through.

Sea-Boo-Photos: Kettle River 09 Hanging ice and a nice day. Just great for the first Kettle run! There were between 20 and 30 kayakers on the Kettle today.

homemade kayaks: Down to the Dead Sea Today we went down to paddle on the Dead Sea together with the paddlers from Beit Daniel in Tel Aviv. There were about 30 of us, an impressive number of kayakers from any point of view, and we sure made on impression on the locals when we arrived and launched of the small beach.

Fat Cats: Mugu Karnali The river was quality, starting grade 3/4 and moving to 4/5. All superb boat scouting with some harder grade 5. The canyon was stunning. There was only one 100m portage in the entire 30 mile section.

SUP Surf: Kalaoa Paddle Company announces Free Paddle Giveaway To help "Stimulate" the economy, Kalaoa Paddle Company is proud to announce our monthly FREE PADDLE Giveaway! That's right, we will be giving away a Custom Kalaoa Stand Up Paddle to one lucky person every month!

New Foundland Neil: Kayaking in Sea Ice We paddled out around Redhead through some mild clapotis and rounded the corner into Redhead Cove. And there was the sea ice.

surfski.info: Swedish Surfski: Nordic Kayaks Fusion Nordic Kayaks, based in Vaxholm, Sweden has announced the imminent arrival of a new surfski, the Fusion, designed by Björn Thomasson and to be built by Marström Composite.

Hans Heupink: Spanish seakayak symposium: 2nd day With new students and partly different co-instructors it was a refreshing experience again. In the morning I coached the group together with Stan Szlapka a seakayak-coach from France.

surfski.info: Molokai updates: Race format changed Due to some changes in the level of supporting sponsorships, the race organizers have made the difficult decision to change the race format to its traditional set-up. This will require all participants to use an escort boat for the race.

LiquidLore: Norrish Creek Things started with my first voyage down the Seymour in North Van at a respectable flow, but the next day more and more rain made this one go from good to high to too high overnight, so plans were laid to move out the Fraser Valley to try and run the Norrish Creek, a great low-stress river just an hour east of the city - we were successfull in having an amazing day on the water.

Playak: Dagger Axiom 9.0 - New Good foot room and comfortable knee position for larger paddlers.

Nature, Kayak and Travel: Discovery Sea Kayaks Shop is open We paddled out around Redhead through some mild clapotis and rounded the corner into Redhead Cove. And there was the sea ice!

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