Playak Weekly Digest - week 16

Playak Weekly Digest
The world's top paddling links in week 16, 2010.

News Watch Northwest Huckfest- Tyler Bradt runs Sunset Falls Teva Blog (Monday 19th) **** - We are back in the game! It's been 4 months since my back break and although I still feel it, I am running big drops again, paddling everyday, and filming the fire! Wavesport Kayaks Names 2010 Team Rapid Magazine Blog (Monday 19th) *** - Wave Sport kayaks has announced their team paddlers for 2010. Find out who made the cut! Love to all the Injuries teamscum blog (Friday 16th) *** - The idea of posting injury photos isn't to exploit gore and/or other people's misfortunes in a Jerry Springer-esque fashion. It's more like singing the blues or going down the road feeling bad in an upbeat sort of way. Corsica Easter Sessions – Part 1 Team LiquidLogic (Friday 16th) ** - [scroll down for english text] Every year at Easter many European kayakers start their Corsica-pilgrimage. The Meet & Greet already starts on the ferry and first information about the levels make the circuit. But before joining the others kayakers on the ferry we had to pass the height control while going on the ferry, with a little bit of creativity there were no problems. Corsica Paddling Raoul Collenteur (Friday 16th) ** - Right, Corsica, my second time on this island of beauty was nothing less compared to the first, paddling some new rivers and reviewing old ones. Broken, waiting and waiting in Soča Simon Westgarth (Sunday 18th) ** - Its been a long month, since I flew like a bird and landed like a stone. The long cold Winter had brought lots of great days on the nordic track in Italy, and very fine skiing road trip to Rosenheim then to St Anton, before enjoying more Valburna fun. Plus Satu and I had been enjoying home life in Slovenia, running, biking and paddling, whilst the valley was still very much quiet. Upper Squamish And More LiquidLore (Wednesday 21st) ** - April in BC, if it's not raining, can be a little grim for people who like to enjoy whitewater kayaking on a regular basis. While much of the country is experiencing the full force of the spring freshet most of the rivers in the mountain time zones are still dried up. The weather may be nice but where all the snow lives up in the mountains it's still cold enough to keep everything on lock-down. Video: Kayaking a waterfall, Japan playak.tv (Tuesday 20th) ** - Check the video of Kayaking Inari falls (Fox Canyon) Minakami Gunma in Japan. Jackson Kayak Villain S Playak (Sunday 18th) ** - The Villain: (n) a. scoundrel. A dramatic or fictional character who is typically at odds with the Hero. NOC Shootout Team Pyranha (Tuesday 20th) ** - This past weekend we hung out at the Nantahala Outdoor Center for the Shootout and Demo Days. It was sweet to see lots of people out there competing in the new molan and plenty of other folks demo-ing the new Burns and Molans. White Salmon International Invasion! Kayak Hot Dogs (Tuesday 20th) ** - I like to call myself a lucky paddler, living in the West Kootenays on the banks of the Slocan River, teaching kayaking, selling kayaks, hell breathing kayaks. We have winter playboating pretty much all season long at Trail wave and Brilliant, super awesome creeks running in the summer months and some of the biggest waves on the planet in early June. Gold Gold Gold And More Gold LVM TV (Saturday 17th) ** - Even more photos and another video. Canyons Laiden With Gold LVM TV (Wednesday 21st) ** - We repeat that tomorrow, April 20th, will be the last day to submit Golden Stroke photos or video for the Werner Paddles Golden Strokes of April contest. We'll continue to post submissions this week and have online voting the last week of April and announce the winner on May, 3, 2010. 2010 Team Dagger Athletes announced SNews (Tuesday 20th) ** - Dagger announced today the 2010 North American team roster. The list of paddlers includes world-record holders, elite level competitors, explorers and teachers, with hundreds of first descents combined. A December to Remember Part 2: From the Grand to Mexico Team Pyranha (Sunday 18th) ** - We awoke before dawn, packed up camp in the dark, and put on the river in the first few minutes of daylight. It was our final day on the Grand Canyon and the short float to the take-out went smoothly, but the rest of the day was a harsh baptism back into the outside world.

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