Playak News Flash 2009-08-30

Playak News Flash - August 30, 2009

News Watch Headlines

PaddleBlogs: Freeky: A jewel of Costa Rica Here is some photos of me (Claudio) and my brother Kurt hucking pozo azul in the area of Sarapiqui on our kayaking trip to Costa Rica .

Werner: Nicole Mansfield, represents the female's perspective at Demshitz While Western NYmay not be the next mecca of whitewater paddling, there certainly are multiple opportunities to paddle some fun stuff even at the end of August without any significant rainfall.

Palm Blogs: Back from Canada Every day we would get on the water at around half 10 and be given the choice to either run the Middle or the Main channels. Both of them had great features on.

Dagger Blogs: Eastern Canada Sessions #1: Taureau The flatwater lasts for a couple of minutes, and then the river slowly and gently narrows and starts to form riffles and eddylines. It just begs you to go downstream and discover what it has in store.

PaddleBlogs: Freeky: Tasting the States Here there are some pictures of some runs in the states , farmlands in the White Salmon WA, Punchball falls of Eagle creek WA and lower mesa falls Idaho.

Eric Jackson: Check out the Event Site for the World Championships… Simon, the event organizer, has been doing a great job in preparing for the big event. Last year's world cup final here in Thun was standing room only and this year, he is building a much larger grandstand for the event.

Kayak USSR: Sayan 2009 - part 1 After that we have done a nice little rapid "Vint" (The screw) and found ourselves close to where we camped last night. We stuffed our panties-singlets in boats and continued the run. After some more boogie water the canyon opened up and we were facing more flatwater.

ERA Blog: What Slalom Gates can Teach a Whitewater Kayaker Looking for something new to use as a teaching tool I stumbled onto the English Gate. The English Gate Sequence is a series of drills done using even just one slalom gate set up on flat water.

Jared Mitchell: The Crooked With the feel of spring in the air and the boys inching to do some paddling Jamie butters and my self headed to the coast for a couple of days first on the list was the crooked. The crooked in the passed hasn't had the best rep with CPIT students but hey that's a whole different story.

Werner: Beau Whitehead Wins Seattle Nash SUP Races Beau Whitehead won all 4 of the Seattle Naish SUP races using the Werner Nitro.

KayakQuixotica: Aries & Dephinius The Aries & the Corelite Dephinius play off the agile Cetus / Scorpio designs. They are re-sculpted to get the most out a high energy environment which means they are aimed to shine in crazy water and tide race play.

Jackson Kayak: Joe Jacobi Joins Team JK Always energetic, helpful, supportive of other athletes, he was a team player in an individual sport. Before I knew it he was on the USA Slalom Team in the C2 class with Scott Strausbaugh and shortly after that on the USA Olympic team for Barcelona with me.

Inflatable Kayak Blog: Inflatable Kayak Punctures in the Water The materials that inflatable boats are made of these days are strong. For example, Sea Eagle uses two types of material on their products, the 1000 Denier Polyester Reinforced Fabric that can stand up to a claw end of a hammer and a Polykrylar material that isn't quite as strong, but is still very dependable.

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