Playak News Flash 2010-04-03

Playak News Flash - April 3, 2010
The world's latest paddling headlines.

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Pat Keller Bio Video from LVM Dagger Blogs - From Lunch Video Magazine - Pat Keller has been on the river since he was 3 years old. A two time Green Race Winner, Teva Mountain Games Champion, and all around multi-sport athlete Pat is easily argued as one of the best paddlers in the world. This is an action packed segment with Pat showing us how it is done. Available in full on LVM #33.

Sweet Creek debacle Mt. Hood H2O - For such a short, easily accessible, none committing run, I have sure heard a lot of stories about carnage and beatdowns. Now I have my own story to add to the list.

Dwars River 2009 Adrian Tregoning - Okidoki, herewith the long awaited Dwars River article from 30 August 2009. I'm finally getting into what I need to post onto my website. There are still more articles waiting to be thrown on, and of course, more West Sumatra stuff. I won't get into this trip very much and let the captions of the photos do the talking.

A decade using the same style life jacket Kokatat Blog - "So I am on the water a bunch, following the summer around the world, instructing, finding creeks and rivers for our videos. I wanted to say that I am a huge fan of the PFD I have been using – Kokatat for over a decade now. Although I have changed the life jacket over just for peace of mind, I have continued to go back to the same one for a few reasons. The last 5 years I have been going back to the Ronin, made by Kokatat.

The Paddling Adventures of Robert Lineham: 1st Blog. A few pictures from New Zealand PaddleBlogs - Just a few pictures from my 18 months in New Zealand.

A Couple of Nights on the Owyhee River, OR Immersion Research - Some old timers have called this stretch of river the "Grand Canyon of Oregon", and rightfully so. The middle Owyhee has some of the deepest gorge walls in OR. The rating on this stretch is class 3-5, with there being just one class five drop properly titled, Widowmaker.

2010 Teva Mountain Games Registration Open SUP Surf - Although it's still ski season in the Rockies, the Teva Mountain Games are only two months away. The nation's largest celebration of mountain sport, lifestyle and music get underway June 3-6, 2010 in Vail. Now is the time to start training for one of the 24 comps including kayaking, rafting, mountain and road biking, bouldering, fly-fishing, running and new this year…stand up paddling!

Irish Surf Contest PeakUK - The first competition of the year ran off in Doughmore Co. Clare and was a reminder to all that paddle fitness is important especially for competition on a beach break. We had good strong overhead surf but a short period, moderate onshore and heavy dump so wave selections and paddling out were tough. There was a swimmer or two during the day.

Santa Cruz Surf Comp Results 2010 Go Kayak Now - The Santa Cruz surf fest site has posted from all heats here. Individual Heat Results are also contained there. It looked like the men's HP and IC categories were chock full of the best of the best hat's off of all the competitors.

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