Playak News Flash 2011-03-05

Playak News Flash - March 5, 2011
The world's latest paddling headlines.

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Imagine Surf Introduces Garrette McNamara's Standup Pro Model Imagine Surf Blog - Imagine Surf is pleased to announce the addition of extreme waterman Garrett McNamara to its pro surfing team. Imagine surf, which was founded in 2002 in Canada, b...

Wetsuit vs. Drysuit for Paddling PaddlingLight - Tweet When it's cold out and the water temperature starts dropping, dressing for immersion might mean the difference between surviving a swim and succumbing to cold shock and eventually hypothermia. At a base level, experienced and highly-skilled paddlers should d...

Self Promotion Bryant Burkhardt - I was reading a paddling forum the other day and saw a typical post about how someone met some 'famous' paddler and was surprised at how nice and approachable they were.  The assumption being that anyone who promotes themselves as a professional paddler is probably an arrogant ass who lives to ...

Liquidlogic Freeride 57 Review Team LiquidLogic - Over the winter, Shane has been super busy working away on Liquidlogic's latest creation, the Freeride. A super fast playboat with enough length to make going down river still fun. This past weekend I was lucky enough to meet Shane up in West Virginia on the Gauley River for some testing of the final prototype. With flows around 7,300 cfs we heard of a fun wave down by the put-in for the lower G.

Portugal Creeking Trip Teva Blog - In under-two months time Katya and myself will be heading to the Whitewater Grand Prix in Canada. An all around event that will feature 3 Creeking competitions and 3 Freestyle to crown the ultimate all around Whitewater Champion on some of the biggest whitewater and waves in the world.

Surfing Your Africa Off! Bliss-Stick US - Surfing your Africa Off.  Thanks to Kai-Wen Pai, Jessica Droujko, Zoey Ross, Alex Anderson and Erikk Hill for the pictures.

Creeking in Portugal River Zoo - Text: Katya Kulkova Photos: Katya&Pring, Jorge Rabico. It was my first time in a creek boat in 3 years, I was a bit nervous if I can creek at all. The rivers here are very different to what I am used to, they are steep and not that much water. But with the White Water Grand Prix coming close...

d1nz website photos Bradley Lauder -  Heres afew photos and comments from the d1nz web site after round 4 over the weekend   This is from the d1nz website:   "Over the course of the day the Top 16 kicked of with some sure stand outs. Alu Nathan borrowed Graeme Mutch's c...

The Freeride: A new playboat by Liquidlogic Shane's Logic - Maria sitting pretty in the new Freeride by Liquidlogic (If you would like a theme song for the Freeride scroll all the way down to Edgar Winters video and press play, if not just keep reading and looking at pretty pictures.) The Liquidlogic Freeride 57 ...

Chuchaqui Falls 60-70feet: First descents Jake Ament - Here is a short video by Craig Parks documenting the mission to Rio Verde outside of Banos, Ecuador. We named this one Chuchaqui Falls, which is Ecuadorian for hangover, because Dan Laham was so hungover when he claimed the first descent. Cascada San Miguel aka Chuchaqui from williamparks o...

Just a quick video from some early January boating at Curragower with the Galway crew David O Sullivan - Just a quick video from some early January boating at Curragower with the Galway crew. Thanks to Conor Mc Comb for the great video.

Press Ups – Fantastic way to Stay Healthy worldkayak blogs - It is assumed that the very first human beings living prior to the word "exercise" was created did push ups within their dimly lit caves with regard to strength and virility. It had been a part of their every day routine equivalent to the present day boot camp. The good thing about pushups as a entire body exercise is that it doesn't need special training, absolutely no expensive equipments and you will perform it anywhere and also at any time you like, even just in your bedroom or even lounge.

Sir Jimmy Savile - Extreme Kayaker!!! Canoe & Kayak UK - Now then, now then now then. We loved Jim'll Fix It when we were lads, Jimmy was our hero, even though the silver haired, chunky gold wearing Mr Fix, it never actually fixed it for us to become real.

Training in Millau adidas Sickline - By Nina Halasova Unsere Woche in Millau war einfach klasse! Das Wetter war "kajakfreundlich" und somit war es uns möglich 2x am Tag zu trainieren. Die Temperatur an den Tagen lag im Durchschnitt bei 10 Grad, d.h. wir konnten im Auto übernachten und brauchten keine Unterkunft. Uns war es teilweise sogar möglich kurzärmlig rumzulaufen. Einfach toll! Das Loch, in dem wir trainiert haben, sieht leichter aus als es ist. Du musst wirklich hart pushen um dort einen Trick zu stehen. Ich denke es war ein echt gutes Training v.a. für die kommende Meisterschaft. Am ersten Tag hatten wir ein paar Anfangsschwierigkeiten, dafür klappte es am zweiten umso besser. Wir konnten die Verbesserungen in unseren Läufen regelrecht beobachten...

Announcement: The Team FD 50/50 Vertical Challenge Team LiquidLogic - Beginning in the spring (2011) when Brianne Horton and I graduate from Northern Michigan University we will be taking off on the adventure of a lifetime. Our plan is to kayak 50,000 vertical feet of at-risk whitewater over six months to raise money for First Descents. The fundraising event is part of Team FD named the 50/50 Vertical Challenge. Our goal is to send 50 young adults with cancer through the program at no charge. We will have to average almost 300 vertical feet per day, every day, for six months to reach our goal. First Descents is an amazing organization that we are proud to help and excited to be a part of...

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