Playak News Flash 2009-05-15

Playak News Flash - May 15, 2009

News Watch Headlines

adidas Sickline: Our trip through Europe Our trip took us from Slovakia, over Graz to Lyon and ended up in Bremgarten. When we returned home after travelling for about 3000 km we were very tired.

Bottoms Up Kayaking: The Kaituna river's lower Gorges The Kaituna River is with out a doubt the most popular river on New Zealand's North Island, and yet very few paddlers have experienced the best part of the river, the lower Gorges.

Jackson Kayak: Clay's Spring Deluge report : Part 2 Finally broke away from the thundering torrent at Rock Island just in time to meet Jeff West and David Levett for their 7th lap of Bear Creek for the day.

Dagger Blogs: Team D's Christie Glissmeyer new women's world record waterfall holder! Christie G decided to step it up this past weekend and break the record of 78 feet that's stood for the last 11 years. Christie's descent of 82-foot Metlako Falls on Eagle Creek in Oregon is absolutely huge, and a big moment for women's kayaking.

Markus Leppaenen: Radetzky Wave on the Mur in Graz (Austria) The level of the Mur was quite high between 3,5 and 4m and therefore the spot under the Radetzky-Bridge worked well. A kind of slow wave with foam.

LVM TV: Embudo Fest '09 The Embudo is 6-7 miles of continuous, tight class V in a beautiful granite gorge in the middle of nowhere.

Axel Schoevers: Anniversary This year marks my tenth year attending the Anglesey Sea Kayak Symposium. It was in May 2000 that I visited for the first time to check out a feature that I had only heard talking about: tide-races and overfalls.

Immersion Research: Toon, Raph and the rest of the Kayak Session crew in Corsica Doesn't this whitewater look downright delicious? Here is the great kayaking video of Kayak Session crew in Corsica.

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