Some Kanumesse Fun! ~ Adidas Sickline – Extreme Race WC 2011 ~ Summer

Playak News Flash - October 1, 2011
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Some Kanumesse Fun! Jackson Kayak - The Kanumesse show was awesome, it is the biggest paddles sports show in the world. Similar to the Summer OR show in Utah, though in Nurnberg Germany, it is more for the European market, as well as only being the paddle sports industry. It is super fun, all the different brands get together to show off their new products, have a good time, with a couple parties.

Adidas Sickline – Extreme Race WC 2011 Jackson Kayak - We are here in Otez, Austria for the Adidas Sickline – Extreme Race World Championships. This is my second year coming, and it is a blast. Otez is an amzing little ski town in a beautiful valley in the Alps. I have been here for a week now, training and paddling with a ton of amazing paddlers; Sam Sutton, Mike Dawson, Michele Ramazza, Rafael Ortiz, Eric Deguil, Jakub Nemec, Thomas Marnics, EJ and Dane Jackson just to name a few.

The best of a LiLi summer: Uganda The Blonde Blogger - Here's some photos from our summer Love it Live it trips on the White Nile, Uganda. All taken by me, except the shot of myself taken by Ivan Ngobi

DM Creeking Week – Floodlit Paddling at HPP (28 October 2011) Desperate Measures - Last night we loaded our van with Demo Creekers and River Runners and headed to our local 'Steep Creek,' HPP, Nottingham. We had a top session with Danny Scott putting a prototype Dagger Mamba 8.1 through its paces and Dennis Newton from SweetWater Coaching paddling the New Liquid Logic Stomper.

How to choose the right Creek boat for you... Boyd Ruppelt - So it's getting close to creeking season in the southeast and lots of us are picking out those sweet new rides for the coming rains. With the multitude of choices and styles out there, it can be tough to decide on just one creeker. I've been asked a few times recently how to know a creeker is ...

North Stein - BC Multiday Waterfall Run Fluid Blog - The north stein is somewhat of BC epic. With around 14km of bc bushwacking and high alpine portaging in some of the most remote BC backcountry. However... The North Stein's 1.5km of whitewater is worth every step...

Summer Wavesport Blogs - Summer has been flying by and can't believe it's almost October. It was a busy summer with little time to process photos or video in the last few months.  Since early July some of the highlights include paddling some new-to-me runs Boundary Creek and the Ram, participating in the Callaghan ...

The build up to Sickline.... Seth Ashworth - The Adidas Sickline race is the Extreme Race World Championships which takes place yearly on the Wellerbrucke section of the Otz river, Austria. The race is now in its fifth year and every year attracting more and more kayakers from around the world.

Boat Testing in Italy with Luke Spencer Immersion Research - In August I took a Fluid Team trip to Europe were I flew to Italy and met up with other Fluid Kayak team paddlers to test a new prototype creek boat Fluid was working on! I flew to Italy where I met David Arnaud, Celliers Kruger and Hugh De Preez. Then headed to the French Alps where we met Val Grollemund and photographer Paul Villecourt. The plan was to paddle the prototype "Bazooka" creek boat to find out if it was ready to start molding. With two Bazookas we rotated testers giving us the chance to try multiple size paddlers in the boat.

Deborah Perry: Typhoon Women's Multisport III Desperate Measures - Debs Perry is one of our sponsored paddlers. She recently put the Typhoon Multi-Sport drysuit through it's paces out in Norway. Here are her thoughts… It was a very exciting day when I finally paddled in a  drysuit, then an even better day when I got one of my very own.

Expedition Grand Canyon 2011 – Lava Falls (4/4) H2Omaniaks - You can check some photos from Czech expedition to Grand Canyon. Text we have only in Czech language so far… You can switch it to CZ and translate it by google transalate it.

Kokatat Congratulates Boomer and Turk ... Kokatat - ARCATA, CALIFORNIA, September 28, 2011 – Kokatat ambassador Erik Boomer and Jon Turk recently became the first team to successfully circumnavigated Ellesmere Island, the northern most island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and the world's tenth largest island.

NRS Gear for Spring Mark Sundin - From time to time the good folks at NRS send us out a few samples to play around with, and this forms the basis of the products of theirs that we include in our online store . The weather is starting to warm up, we're noticing people making queries about the more immersion-centric elements of the ...

Palm at the (very) Wet West Paddle Fest Palm Blogs - For years Scottish paddlers dreamed of a summer paddling festival in Scotland. Perhaps centred on the dam-release hubs of the Rivers Garry and Moriston. The SCA Access Committee discussed it but little progress was made. In early 2005, as a fitting memorial to Andy Jackson the SCA Access officer, plans for a paddling extravaganza were hatched.

(...) Belt & Coiled Leash Review CKS Blog - Salamander SUP Quick Release Belt & Coiled Leash Review. It seems like it was just yesterday that there was only one type of river specific SUP board available, and no real accessories to go with it, except for maybe a paddle .

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