Playak News Flash 2009-07-31

Playak News Flash - July 31, 2009

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Max Bilbow: Kayak USSR Kitoy Trip This trip involves running two tributaries of the Kitoy, both of which involve a hike up to the put-on. The first of these tributaries, The Gorlyk-Gol, has some good class III/IV technical creeking which culminates a 16 metres high waterfall that is not for the faint hearted, especially considering just how far we are from any form of civilization.

Wavesport Blogs: Salty Surfing Every summer there is one place on Earth that I know I must return to. It is the most relaxing place I've ever gone kayaking, and has one of the sweetest waves found anywhere in the Fjordland of the Sunshine Coast of BC, Canada.

Teva Blog: Norway Trip Part II It`s not much reason to introduce white water in Norway, this famous destination is still well visiting destination for kayaking. It`s not chance to find better place in Europe to paddle during summer than in Norway.

Palm Blogs: 30 clicks East of the Cambodian Border On reaching the falls, the team split up and explored the full width of the river. A couple of lines were decided upon and the rest of the afternoon was spent on various descents.

adidas Sickline: German freestyle championships Just like other event do, the session system was used during the qualifiers. This means that a group of five paddlers comes together on a single spot and tries to show their most impressive tricks. Each one of them is allowed to stay in the wave for 30 seconds before the next athlete displaces him in order to assure a fair process.

Global Surfski: My brand new Zedtech Dominator I really like the look of the "carbon-black" Dominator. My Pro Elite version weighs only 10,5 kg and I ordered it without the crisscross bungee cord behind the seat and without the crisscross cord in front of the foot brace, with a slightly smaller rudder and with stiffer rudder lines.

Alpine Quest: Green Truss of the White Salmon Had an awesome time paddling the Green Truss of the White Salmon. I just picked up some new gear from Stohlquist, and what better way to test it out than seeing the goods Washington has to offer. ...

Am. Whitewater: Boat Stickers required in now Idaho The new law requires boaters, both motorized vessels and non, to contribute to the Idaho Invasive Species Fund (IISF). Any boat that is registered in Idaho or another state, and any non-motorized vessel (canoe, kayak, raft, drift boat, etc.) will be required to purchase and display IISF sthttp://playak.com/paddle-news.php?op=editnews&id=559386ickers in order to legally launch and operate in Idaho.

Am. Whitewater: Saluda Dam Relicensing Settled! American Whitewater signed a settlement agreement with South Carolina Electric & Gas Company and a suite of other organizations and agencies that resolves issues regarding the management of Lake Murray Dam for the next 50 years.

SUP Surf Mag: Mitchell wins 8th Consecutive and Ekolu Kalama wins Stand Up Paddle Molokai Crossing For the eighth consecutive year, Australian Jamie Mitchell proved he's light years and hard-earned miles ahead of his paddleboard peers, winning the 32-mile Rainbow Sandals Molokai to Oahu Paddleboard Race that is the unofficial world title of the sport.

Playak: Pyranha Rebel - New The Rebel is kid-friendly and heaps of fun. We've designed this kayak to give kids the most responsive boat out there whilst making sure to build-in confidence-inspiring stability.

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Playak News Flash 2009-07-29

Playak News Flash - July 29, 2009

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Playak: Outdoor Retailer Summer Market 2009: Wrap-up Stand-up Paddling, Girl Gear including Stand-up Peeing for girls, Dog Gear, and paddling companies missing…

Tribe News: The Philippines From Malaysia the boys headed off to the Philippines in search of seldom run whitewater and the potential for some first descents. The province of Luzon offers up some incredible scenery and awesome rivers to those willing to deal with their logistics.

Werner: Toughest time of Kelsey Thompson's life Following the April death of his close friend, Corey Morris, the past few months have been the toughest of Kelsey Thompson's life. It took time to get back on his feet, and of course there will always be the healing process.

Fluid Blog: Red Creek we were at the horizon line of a scrapy 12 foot falls that is pretty difficult to launch off of. Most of us went pretty deep off of it, including Seth's near over the handle bars pogo off the drop. Paddling across the pool, we knew we were in for a major treat where the creek flows over a 200+ yard slide ending in a 5 foot drop.

Johnny Misadventures: Brown Town Wave The water level is coming down now! It is at 5000cms so it is now low enough for the high water features which is sweet. Yesterday we headed to the Rapids of the Drowned, which is the only set of rapids on the Slave that are actually in the NWT.

Fluid Blog: Fluid Kayaks as C1 - Rein Hagenaars First the Flirt series, excellent and well-balanced for freestyle and all round use as C1.Then the Solo for creeking the hard stuff with a half paddle, so easy to turn, you can catch the smallest eddies.

CKS Squad: Carnage in Five Acts The heavy boil from the steep, narrow rapid buried his kayak, then receded. I tried to pull his boat free as I was flushed down behind him. It didn't budge. The current swept me downstream.

Wavesport Blogs: Graz session with Project cx We went to Graz to test the boat. The levels was perfect for wave sessions. My first feeling was that I was so impressed that everything is so easy.

Werner: Touring Technique: As conditions get bigger get below the deck. If there is one thing I love about paddling it is playing in the surf, but not because of the "rush." Although it is of course fun, for me it is the challenge of controlling a kayak in these conditions and testing my skills that gets me excited to paddle out again and again as things get rolling.

Wavesport Blogs: Reversing Falls Gets Good Unlike more popular tidal spots like the Skookumchuck narrows, it is very difficult to predict what the features will be like at the Reversing Falls due to the influence of the Saint John River. The tide height and the river level both play major roles in how the rapids form since they are located where the river meets the ocean rather than in the standard ocean inlet.

SUP Surf Mag: Stand-Up Paddle Boarders and Surfers join Olympic Athletes to launch The BLUE Mile tand-up Paddle Board champions John Hibbard and 6 year old Blue Ewer joined Professional Surfer Ben Skinner, Olympic Medallists and World Record holding athletes on Plymouth's (UK) historical Mayflower Steps as Paul Deighton, Chief Executive of The London 2012 Olympic Organising Committee fired the starting cannon to one of the UK's most important races to date, the race for our oceans and environment.

SUP Surf Mag: San Clemente's Rainbow Sandals Makes Donations to Hawaii Charities California businessman Jay Longley Jr., founder of Rainbow Sandals out of San Clemente, demonstrated that aloha comes from the Mainland, too, when he made financial and product donations to two worthy Hawai'i charities today: the Moloka'i Community Service Council and Na Kama Kai.

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Playak News Flash 2009-07-27

Playak News Flash - July 27, 2009

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Johnny Misadventures: Slave Flood Update They are higher now then what it was in the spring by almost 1000cms! The water has filled with sand and setiment and it down a gross chocolate milk colour.

CKS Squad: Late Season Boof Madness So it's July and Steamboat boating is slowly coming to an end. The C-hole is full of tubers and fish creek is a trickle. Your only semi-convenient after work option is the Elk Box.

Palm Blogs: Triple Combo I think the Falloch has also become one of my favourite rivers due to it having numerous sections, all of which hold some great rapids, and in all the times I've run it, the sun has been out for all but one.

Werner: Hailey Thompson: Living the dream The Junior Olympics were incredible! I spent my first three days at the Gull River, in Minden, Ontario, the site of the 1977 Whitewater World Championships, where we competed in Slalom and boater-x events.

PeakUK: Canada Trip 2009 Ross and I flew out to the Ottawa River at the beginning of June for a month of big water, sweet waves and Tim Horton's coffee! Tom Turner joined us half way through the month.The trip was also a great chance to train on a variety of waves for the World Championships.

Roaring Fork Kayakers: Wicked Wed. 3 Removing Wood From Crystal Gorge We had no idea today was going to be so long. Sometimes you gotta put some work in before you can run the shit. Today was one of those days. We hiked up to the bottom of the upper gorge just above zute chute. There was a huge log blocking the entrance to the inner gorge.

Gutters of the Earth: Kings River Triple Crown Luke Liebsch, Macy Burnham, Chris Tulley and I completed what may be the longest contiguous descent of river in Kings watershed history, linking runs on the Middle Kings, Garlic Falls, and the Banzai Run in a hitherto unprecedented act of river-running.

Dagger Blogs: CrazySummer Just in the middle of my crazy summer! It's been epic one to say the least. 6 weeks in Quebec, 2 weeks in Colorado for USA Team Trials, 3.5 weeks in Iceland, a couple weeks in Cali.

AS Watersports: New kayak -Venture Flex 11 The Flex 11 comes after the Pyranha Fusion and is the touring version of that kayak. Whilst the fusion is GP/ white water the Flex is GP/touring.

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Playak News Flash 2009-07-26

Playak News Flash - July 26, 2009

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Dagger Blogs: BC big water and the Ultimate Park and Huck I met up with a small crew near Clearwater BC for some high water action in the warm rivers of the area. Some nice big waves, a few scenic canyons, some nasty whirlpools and eddies and a few undercuts make for the perfect outing.

CKS Blog: Must have gear for steep creeking Wilderness. It's a place where we go to get away from the annoying things in life. When paddling through a steep gorged-out creek or a long backcounty wilderness run, the feeling of "getting away" is second to none. These are the places that paddlers seek out and enjoy the most.

Teva Blog: Teva at European Outdoor Trade Show It turned out to be great, despite the fact that there was no time to do any kind of rehearsal, neither we had the budget to hire professional models. Instead we invited some of our European Athletes and other friends to present the new line of shoes.

Palm Blogs: Ula Extreme Race '09 – It's Back! After 4 years away, racing returned to the Ula Valley in Norway this weekend for the Ula Extreme Race 09. With perfect levels, 40 of Europe's finest turned out to battle it out for the title.

Confluence Blog: What's the Dagger Axis All About? Greg Larson, who loves the new Dagger Axis series, explains what this new kayak is all about. It's amazingly maneuverable and has built in performance for a wide range of paddling environments…emphasizing Dagger's commitment to moving water, from the mountains to the sea.

PeakUK: The McNasty by Joe Bradley and Alan Ward Here's the second installment of the freestyle technique/coaching videos by Joe Bradley and Alan Ward.

Werner: Beau Whitehead on SUPing in the PNW SUPing in Puget Sound can mean different things; cruising flat water, surfing boat and freighter wakes or surfing the rare swell-driven wave. There are so few surf spots inside Puget Sound that surfers tend to be very protective of them.

CKS Squad: Stand Up Paddling - River & Ocean After spending a week at the beach on stand up boards, it was easy to see why people are paddling these odd crafts. For one, the training aspect is amazing. It is a total body workout that really works the core and upper body. This can be a huge tool for paddlers to use in the off-season, or anytime you need something different from sitting in a boat.

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Playak News Flash 2009-07-24

Playak News Flash - July 24, 2009

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Playak: Titan Kayaks We met Anthony Yap in Salt Lake and were able to get photos and the full specs! Use the Playak forums to propose a name for this new carbon freestyle boat.

Fluid Blog: Return to the M-Wave Levels were pretty sweet, but they could have been a tiny bit better. The best time to be there is when the wave is green all the time, but for us, there was a little pile that came and went.

Outdoor Industry Association: Newly Elected and Appointed Board Members The Outdoor Industry Association® (OIA) Board of Directors ratified its new slate of Directors at Monday's board meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah. A total of twelve open seats were filled. Five board members were elected by OIA members and seven seats were appointed by the board.

Palm Blogs: Quick Stop Over in NZ I have just arrived back in NZ for two weeks downtime before jumping back on the plane and heading to North America for more adventures. My return coincided with one of NZ's frequent winter storms so not one to miss the chance to huck some drops I loaded up the truck and headed for the hills.

Teva Blog: Sjoa River Festival 2009 This race is held after long ten years and for my is something special. When I was first time in Norway and saw this race, this race was the first extreme race which I ever seen.

Immersion Research: Tug boat accident After a few days of great surfing at Skookumchuck Narrows in Egmont BC, Demshitz witnessed a tug boat accident at the wave during slack tide. Team paddler Dave Fusilli paddled out in his REV to attempt to save a man trapped in the tug.

Am. Whitewater: TVA to undertake Integrated Resource Plan TVA is gathering information from stakeholders on how to meet the needs of the Tennessee Valley and its residents for energy, environment, natural resource management and recreation.

adidas Sickline: Our adidas week On the next morning we met all the others back at the river. The guys wanted to run the upper Venter but due to the fact that a big avalanche was blocking the spot, it was impossible to do. So, we canceled our plan and therefore Sam and Bernhard decided to run the Wellerbrücke section, which at that time had a lot of water.

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Playak News Flash 2009-07-23

Playak News Flash - July 23, 2009

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Paddle Press: Outdoor Industry Association and Outdoor Retailer: Concern over New Paddlesports-Specific Trade Show In response to the recent announcement by Canoe & Kayak Magazine about its new paddlesports trade show slated for September in Minneapolis, Minn., Frank Hugelmeyer, president of Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) and Joe Flynn, vice president of Nielsen's Sports Group, owner of the Outdoor Retailer trade show (OR) jointly express concern about what the new show means for the health of the industry as a whole.

Fluid Blog: Norway Ready to boof on the famous 'Double Drop' on the Tiegdale. Truly a classic with big slides and big falls around every corner, finishing with double drop which is the best boof in the world.

wavesport.de: Jakub goes First D in Canada After one week of running the shit in British Columbia and Alberta in Canada I am on my way to Salt lake city. Outdoor retailer show is beginning in few days and we have to set up Confluence demos and promos.

The Blonde Blogger: Back on the Nile The river level was quite strange at first, with it not dropping low enough for Club wave in the morning and then only just coming up high enough for Nile Special in the afternoons.

Bootfahrer: Cornerwave and competitions Cornerwave is one of my favourites on the ottawa. Quite the dynamic wave with a sweet surfer's left shoulder, fast and incredibly steep and green in the right levels. Competition levels were a bit too high, so it was comparably slow and foamy but still good enough to throw some stuff on.

Teva Blog: Bosnia World Rafting Championships 2009 The event organizers had done us proud, big wooden stadiums had been constructed along the banks of the Vrbas, banners decked out the neighboring city Banja Luka and press and televisions crews were everywhere.

PeakUK: Big 5 Kayak Challenge #5: The End The most spectacular scenery of the trip was in the final two days of paddling, when the team arrived at the aptly named Glacier Bay National Park, where despite the impact of global warming many of the glaciers continue to reach down to the sea. The stunning surroundings of Glacier Bay also presented new challenges with moving icebergs, carving glaciers and icy waters.

Eric Jackson: EJ's own review of the 2010 All-Star At Rock Island- we have a "top wave" which is normally not that fun in a playboat, like the 2007 All-Star, however it suddenly became much more fun.

Canadian Ckayaker: Newfoundland River Paddling Given the remarkable coastline of Newfoundland, it's no wonder few people think about heading inland and trying out the various lakes and rivers. However there's a growing white water crowd and some rafting sites opening up which can extend one's paddling adventures well beyond the reach of salt water.

PaddleBlogs: SPOT unveils next generation Satellite GPS Messenger at Outdoor Retailer SPOT LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Globalstar, Inc. (Nasdaq:GSAT) and a leader in personal satellite messaging and emergency communications, today introduced its new SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger(tm).

surfski.info: Craig Goozee Paddles (and runs and cycles) around Australia for Cancer Following the tragic loss of his nine year old daughter to cancer, Craig Goozee decided to paddle, run and cycle 12,500km around Australia to raise $1,000,000 for the Children's Cancer Institute of Australia.

surfski.info: Mocke brothers: 46km Scottburgh to Brighton Dawid Mocke brought down the curtain on the winter surf ski series with an emphatic family domination of the tough 46 kilometer Men's Health Discovery Scottburgh to Brighton surf ski ultra marathon, raced on a dead calm ocean that offered little assistance to the big field that took part.

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