Playak News Flash 2009-09-01

Playak News Flash - September 1, 2009

News Watch Headlines

PaddleBlogs: Jeroen: #Thun Billy Harris interviews video Here is the video on some pretty shallow interviews by Billy Harris.

Fluid Blog: The Mighty Slave river There was a flood right when I arrived, so I got to experience all the water levels of a typical season, condensed into about a month.

LL Ladies Lounge: Training for Worlds The women are all working on dialing in their roundhouses, blunts and attempting air screws every once in a while. The wave has a nice lefty shoulder and almost no right shoulder. In the middle the wave gets pretty steep and nice, but people are flushing off of the side of the feature a lot.

Paddle Press: ICF: Freestyle grows up, World Championships highlight increasing professionalism his year's ICF Freestyle World Championships mark new milestones in the evolution of the youngest discipline in paddlesports.The first milestone is marked by attendance at the event by VIPs from some of the most august international sports bodies.

playak.tv: Skookumchuck Freestyle Kayaking Aug 09 My first time using the DR thruster on this phenomenal feature. What an amazing kayak.

PaddleBlogs: Jeroen: #Thun Freestyle World Championships Coverage World Kayak is also reporting about the worlds, although the content they published so far looks like copies of the ICF articles.

PaddleBlogs: Jeroen: #Thun video: swissBLISS part 1 Nice video by Keegan Grady. Consider this an 'Introduction to paddling in Thun'.

Playak Product News: Liquid Logic: Liquidlogic Looses the Cockpit and Gains a New Audience Liquidlogic kayaks began broadening its product base last year when it introduced the crossover series the Remix XP but are continuing to explore new territory and will now be manufacturing two sit-on-top kayak models.

Adrian Tregoning: Fluid Spice (medium) Review It has the proven Flirt hull, which means it is super loose on waves. The length of the boat combined with gradual kickrocker makes it fast, both on waves and downriver.

Simon Westgarth: 8 weeks of Sjoa This year saw the Sjoa Valley Kayak Shop, Strie Strømmer take charge of the Sjoa Kajakk Kamp as well as the annual Sjoa Kayak River Festival.

NC Paddle Surfer: A Must Watch Video Series Study these videos and your paddle skills will improve tremendously. I especially love the 3rd video, because it shows Evan getting it wrong, then getting it right.

Dash Point Pirate: Highlights from Kayak Academy's Greenland Rolling Competition Kayaking legend Maligiaq Padilla also judged the event. In addition to teaching skin−on−frame building classes he has been building kayak models during his stay in the Pacific Northwest.

rockratrobinson: Carrying up the Caldew The half-an-hour walk up the valley was with out a doubt worth it, and to be honest I have had more grueling, morale draining walk-in's before, but it seems that I have always been rewarded with memorable river descents.

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