Playak News Flash 2009-07-29

Playak News Flash - July 29, 2009

News Watch Headlines

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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