Playak News Flash 2009-04-27

Playak News Flash - April 27, 2009

News Watch Headlines

Evan Garcia: Blown away on the Toxaway I was lucky to get the rains and have this thing come up to a good level for us to drop in.

Raoul Collenteur: Worlds 09 selections in Rheinfelden Back from a sick trip to Corsica and ending with the Dutch Team Trials for the worlds 2009  on the border of Germany and Switzerland. The wave was created due to construction work at the other side of the river and is a small green extremely technical wave.

Jackson Kayak: South Branch Feather: How a Hobbit Falls 50 feet The run begins with about 3 miles of warm-up class 3/4 boulder rapids that become increasingly steep and fun until the final 1 1/2 miles drop off the face of the earth (the last 1/2 mile drops something like 600 feet) in a bedrock heaven.

Team Pyranha: Fusion update I recently had the opportunity to get in the fusion. Testing it out on the Columbia River, with The Columbia Experience, we paddled 15 miles on the 270,000 cfs, floating past Nuke Plants and waterfalls.

Total WW Fun: It's not your old Reflex, it's the new SL350 from Dragorossi Contemporary lines, modern 3.5 meter boat, sized for average sized slalom athletes with a nice rotomolded, adjustable seat (mincel pillar continues under the seat), ratchetting backband, and "yakima" style footpegs.

Level 6 Blog: Spring in the UK - Emily Wall Spring had finally sprung here in the UK and there's been lots going on. At the end of March the annual National Student Rodeo took place along side a new show, Paddlefest. Held at Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham, the two events had had to be combined, as the winter's refurbishment to the slalom course had not been completed in time for the NSR planned for three weeks earlier.

Kayak Session: Tyler Bradt Interview In March, Brazilian Pedro Oliveira ran a 127-foot falls in Brazil breaking Tyler Bradt's former 107-foot record (Alexandra falls, BC Canada). There was huge media coverage worldwide about Olivia's record. While most people imagined this record would stay for a very long time, Tyler Bradt just ran the 186 ft (nearly 60-meter) Palouse Falls in Washington State, smashing Olivia's record by 59 ft!

SUP Surf: An exclusive StandUp Journal "Summer 2009″ sneak peek Here's an exclusive sneak peek on StandUp Journal's "Summer 2009″ from Clay Feeter.

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