Playak News Flash 2010-11-27

Playak News Flash - November 27, 2010
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GB Selection Win & Hurley Classic Win River Zoo - The 2010 season of competition finished this last weekend with the Hurley Weir League event & Hurley Classic on the Sunday.

Hurley Classic Weekend worldkayak blogs - So even with low water we managed to have 2 days of Hurley action a the Hurley Classic. 1 and 3/4 gates produced a unique hole/wave combo with a nice shoulder. It allowed the best to prove themselves and stopped the locals from completely dominating.

Visa Team LiquidLogic - Liquidlogic team kayaker Martin Vollen and Mathias Fossum on Visa river in Norway.

My highlights reel from the past 10 years including all my biggest crashes Dagger Blogs - Below is a link to my highlights footage that we have compiled over the past 10 years.

Aquabatics Creeking Course Video Aquabatics Calgary - So if anyone is thinking of taking a Creeking Course with us next spring or you have taken one this past year check this little video out!!

Back in Black Rapid Magazine Blog - What happens when you take a top performing play boat design and reduce its weight by 40% and increase rigidity?

Fluid Vuvubat Medium Playak - The Vuvubat is a plastic polo kayak that delivers high performance in an affordable, almost indestructible package. The Vuvubat complies with full ICF regulations and can be used in ICF sanctioned kayak polo competitions.

Into the Belly of the Beast: Running Garganta del Diablo New River Academy - Normally, I would start out a blog with a short description of what New River Academy just did, but this experience was so unique and so amazing that a simple sentence saying that New River Academy ran Garganta del Diablo would not do the experience any justice. Everyone's seen the pictures and the movies of it, and going it we had all thought that we knew what the rapid would be like. Yet from the moment we did the ski ramp into the canyon, it defied all expectations.

LL Updates - Quebec LiquidLore - As of late the bulk of our content has been coming out of SW BC - some of the sections in our guidebook are starting to get a little dusty and needed some attention. Turns out lots of people thought the same thing.

Paddling down the River Leven rockratrobinson - Check out several nice pictures!

Dragon's Throat Revisited Mt. Hood H2O - The footage taken from the first descent of this drop was ruined by moisture, so I had hoped for awhile to get back up there and get some more. The time presented itself when my dad came down to school to see where I was living now and drop off some essentials. While eating lunch I decided we should head up there and look at that drop as it is a pretty cool spot and Macey (his dog) needed to get out and move around.

NEW MAGAZINE: Content # 36 Kayak Session - Destination: Ticino – Switzerland. ITV: Mike Dawson. Zoom In: Gauley Fest , World's biggest paddling festival. Profile: Flemming Schmidt. Mission: Thule Beri, Nepal...

Fiestas of borja Small World Adventures - November 21st is always an interesting time to be in Borja--our local community and home base of Small World Adventure's riverside lodge for the past 13 years. This day marks the celebration of the Virgin of Quinche--an interesting figure in both Indigenous and Catholic Ecuadorian faith. The Virgin of Quinche was carved from wood in the 16th century by famed artist Don Diego Robles.

Surfing lessons and a new paddle homemade kayaks - I must admit its great to see all the new Greenland paddles out on the water. It does take some getting used to, changing from a Euro style paddle to a Greenland one. The feel is completely strange and it takes a good while to get proficient with the stick. So keep at it folks, and soon it will be as natural as pie.

The 2nd annual, every man's Rio Grande multi-day kayak trip CKS Squad - The 1st annual, every man's Rio Grande multi-day kayak trip started last year in 2009. The Rio Grande in Northern New Mexico is an awesome multi day trip. From the Colorado Border to the Rio Arriba County line is 65 miles of class 2-5. The sections are, Ute Mountain (class 2), Razorblades (class 3-4), Upper Box (Class 4-5), La Hunta (class 2), Lower Box (class3-4), State Park (class 2), Racecourse (class 3).

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