Playak News Flash 2009-08-26

Playak News Flash - August 26, 2009

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Wavesport Blogs: Skook Training The beginning of the tide provides a smaller wave to train on and peak tide makes for a larger wave that allows you to work the rust out of your moves before taking them to small waves.

Palm Blogs: Hot Dang Summer At least the River Kinglass that we paddled the next day was really full of water…Not! Oh well at least it was an adventure and there were some very very cool rapids up there somewhere.

Jackson Kayak: The Mon-Star is ready We brought you the Super Fun, the Mega-Rocker, and the Super Hero. Today we bring you the Mon-Star! Finally, be comfortable, be retentive, be fast and, most importantly be prepared to FLY!

Eric Jackson: Soul of Kayaking, Part 2- River Running Segment A river is like a liquid conveyor belt that meanders through its valley offering up the best views of that valley, along with the opportunity for a paddler to ride it down at his or her leisure.

Werner: Werner Team paddler, Kelsey Thompson, talks about training for the Worlds Check out Team paddler Kelsey Thompson reporting from his training mission at the Skookumchuck wave in BC Canada. Kelsey, in his first year paddling for Werner, made the Canadian freestyle Team and has been training to throw down in Thun, Switzerland with all the best names in freestyle kayaking at this month's World Rodeo Championships. Good luck Kelsey, bring home the Gold!

Indigenous Boats: Tub Boats I had the pleasure of attending a talk by Doug Brooks at Carpenter's Boat Shop in Pemaquid, Maine, last month. Doug is a highly accomplished builder of both Japanese and Western traditional boat type replicas, whom I wrote about previously . He spoke mainly about the building of the ...

Tony Paradise: Beating Bill Headed towards Cape St. Francis Hurricane Bill was busy churning in the Atlantic in the area of Bermuda today and forecast to hit Newfoundland Sunday night Monday morning. It'll be downgraded to a tropical storm by the time it hits us but it'll still be too windy to paddle, maybe for a coup...

PeakUK: Phonics Monkey with Liquid Projects Here is the video which helps to learn how to Phonics Monkey in the third installment from the Liquid Projects boys Joe Bradley and Alan Ward.

Mats Bengtsson: Learning the kayak eskimo roll The eskimo roll is thus something I see as a solution when the initial handling of the situation was not good enough to keep me on the surface, and when I need a better way to get up than just getting out of the kayak in the water (doing the wet exit).

KayakQuixotica: The Amazing Colossal Shop We get used to it of course. But if there is one thing that folks from distant lands can never imagine, it's how amazingly large Rutabaga is. I mean it may not be the Amazing Colossal Man, "I'm HUGE!" sort of large but it's certainly, "plan your whole day to buy a kayak large". It's small and...

Wilderness Systems: Hurricane Bill Passes Hatteras Island MY man Rich and I decided to use the nice clean swells generated by Bill to do some reentry practice. We decided to hit the southside of Cape Point. There was a total cover up of 3-6fters coming in. We got in some good practice for over 2 hours and added some nice new bruises to boot. Bein...

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