New Facebook service: Paddle Trip Planner - Playak News Flash 2010-04-08

Playak News Flash - April 8, 2010
The world's latest paddling headlines.

Message of the Day

New Facebook service: Paddle Trip Planner The Paddle Trip Planner is now open for all to use, also for commercial trips! Plan trips, invite friends, discuss.

News Watch Headlines

Great day on Indian Creek! Jackson Kayak - I had a fantastic day on lower Indian Creek yesterday with 6 great friends: Jessica, Newt, Noah, Manny, Justin, and Pete. We kicked-off the class 4 run with a few laps on the put-in falls, all of which went well. This was my first run in a production Villain S, and it's BEAUTIFUL! Paddles like a dream–easy to spin, fast, forgiving, boofs great, and goes where I want easily. BEAST! Jessica demoed one as well and was all smiles at the end of the run–sweet! Enjoy the photos of the falls, shot by Jessica and some jerk.

New Whitewater Events at Teva Mountain Games Rapid Magazine Blog - The largest celebration of mountain sport, lifestyle and music in the U.S. welcomes whitewater Stand Up Paddling into its competition fold.

April 5th, Golden Photos and a Video LVM TV - Here we have a combo entry from Dave Gorbachev. Looks like these boys have been taking full advantage of the wet and juicy spring the southeast has had this year. Our post tomorrow will venture away from the southeast, but as we look over the submissions California has little representation. We have been hearing of some early season Dinkey and a few other creeks and rivers…let's see'em Cali!

How to: The Boof Wavesport Blogs - The Boof is one of the most important things to have in your bag of tricks as a kayaker. It can be used in almost any situation, but in general is a maneuver used when going off a drop or through a rapid, if you want to keep your bow up to go over something your bow would typically go under.

Edging Technique Chicago Area Sea Kayakers Association - Majority of instructional materials advise that edging is accomplished mostly by lifting with the opposite knee. Minority insists that weighing down the buttocks and upper thigh on the on-side does most of the work to submerge the gunwale.

Sneak Preview: New RapidUp Sail from Advanced Elements AirKayaks - Advanced Element's new AE2040 RapidUp Sail is a compact and fast deploying down-wind kayak sail.

Trailer Video: The Ultimate Guide to Stand Up Paddling trailer playak.tv - New video by playak: Dan Gavere introduces the new DVD Ultimate Guide to Stand Up Paddling A video that covers all aspects of stand up paddling from buying your first board, to standing up for the first time. The video goes deep into the forward and turning strokes as well as feathering and bracing. Dan gives tips on paddling in whitewater as well as catching your first wave in the ocean

Monday, April 5th, 2010. Robert A. Heinlein. On Kayaks - "It may not be possible to do away with government— sometimes I think that government is an inescapable disease of human beings. But it may be possible to keep it small and starved and inoffensive— and can you think of a better way than by requiring the governors themselves to pay the costs of their antisocial hobby?"

Anna Levesque explains how to put on a Sprayskirt – Immersion Research - Last Summer and Fall I spent some time filming and editing Anna Levesque's newest kayak instructional DVD. In the below excerpt from the video she explains how to put on a sprayskirt. You'll notice she uses the IR J-lo, women's specific skirt.

Dressed to kill Tony Paradise - Marie left a post on our NewsGroup with a question about what kind of thermal protection to wear at this time of the season when air temperature may be warm but the water is still cold. Even with water temperatures are in the 1 - 2 C degree range I don't think there's a one size fits all answer.

Werner Paddle's, Mark Scriver, blogs on ALF. (not the puppet the canoe festival.) Werner - "I just got back from ALF in the southern Appalacians. If you haven't heard about it in any of the world media sources, it is a very loosely organized festival of whitewater open boaters centered approximately in Lenoir City, Tennessee.

This mail contains a selection of the world's latest paddling news. To see all the latest news, videos, forum discussions and more, visit Playak News Watch.
To manage your Playak subscriptions, please edit your profile (subscription settings are at the bottom of the profile edit page).