Playak News Flash 2009-10-13

Playak News Flash - October 13, 2009

News Watch Headlines

Teva Blog: Teva Tribe member Jan Lasko aka "Honza" reports from British Columbia We been paddling there almost every day and got super good boating with few missions. Unbelievable how big potential for white water has this area. We did classic runs and there is so many first descent just few kilometers out of town. I guess that some one could spent all season a paddle every day new river with solid WW.

Fluid Blog: What's new at Fluid Kayaks: outfitting, composite boats - and hot babes The Comp Nemesis is available in M as well, and interestingly a S/M version is currently in the making. This size will fit right between our current plastic Small and Medium sizes, and will be the boat of choice for mid-sized paddlers around 60-75 kgs.

Markus Leppaenen: Extreme speed and fun with Fluid Element I also had my first goes in the Fluid Element. It is such a fast boat, unbelievable. The perfect choice for Kuchl if the level is too high and the wave is green, i.e. too flushy for "normal" playboats. Therefore in my opinion not just an ocean kayak but the right boat if your regular freestyle boat is too slow for a river-wave.

Immersion Research: Johnny's Misadventures The drive from Ottawa was long. But when I got to Fort Smith and saw the Slave River my shoulder started to feel good. I got so lucky to catch the right water level for a wave named Roller Coaster.

Fluid Blog: hand paddling by Hendri Coetzee, and a video I learnt to paddle on the Zam, where you could run almost anything with a good roll. The confidence of a good roll is pretty much what my boating is based on.

Team Pyranha: North Wales – it's actually quite good… Raindrops rattled off the dustbin outside and sloshed down the drains as the clouds swept over North Wales. The first rain for weeks, proper rain, pink bits on the internet rainfall radar and everything.

Jackson Kayak: Kayak Coaching A successful two days of coaching was taking 4 never been in a boat beginners to a standard of confidence and skills to get stuck in on some of the Thames River weirs.

Simon Davidson: Nevis Adventure! Everything I had heard and expected was true and not having paddled in a while i was rather nervous, and that came in to action on the first horizon-lines. Rapids to remember were definitely freight train and the section after little and big brother.

ECHO - OR/ID River Rafting: Dam Removals on the Rogue River A lot of questions have come up about how the removal of multiple dams on the Rogue River will effect rafting trips on the Lower Rogue.

Playak Product News: Lomo: 40L Holdall Lomo's ever expanding range of drybags sees a new arrival this week in the form of their 40L holdall. Different to most other bags in their range, it opens straight along the top seam as opposed to the usual roll down barrel bags that we have become used to.

Tony Paradise: Into the great wide open Leaving Ferryland it was calm but the marine forecast promised more. The whole coast was being hammered by the sizeable swell coming in from the North Atlantic.

Kokatat Blog: AW's October Volunteer of the Month American Whitewater is the primary advocate for the preservation and protection of whitewater resources throughout the United States and relies on the support of volunteers to staff local projects, serve as AW's voice by attending local meetings, work with local partners, and build the necessary relationships needed for success of river stewardship projects.

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