Merry Huckmas from the Rios Palguin, Puesco, and Maichin ~ Roger’s wave

Playak News Flash - January 21, 2012
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Merry Huckmas from the Rios Palguin, Puesco, and Maichin Wavesport Blogs - Twenty minutes out of Pucon you come across the Rio Palguin, its attributes are stunning. The crystal clear water cascades down steep gradient that manages to pool up at appropriate places and plunge off ...

I love my job…. Mark Sundin - I've had a memorable four days of 'work', if you consider what I've been doing to be in any way laborious! Rob is in Tassie having an extended break from his unbearably stressful existence - people who've been to his office will know what I mean - so I've been out doing demo paddles ...

Roger's wave duemstuff - Rains early this year have greatly swollen the waters of the Rhone, the Saone and the Doubs. Despite freezing temperatures, kayakers are given away to heart's content on the biggest waves of France. So we went in Beaucaire in the south-eastern with a handful of friends.

X-mas Training duemstuff - As every year, I went to my family for Christmas. On program , training on Cher river and spending the good time with my parents. This year the levels of water weren't at the top, so I train with my stand up.  We let you enjoy the pictures. Stand up Surfing one the Mazelles wave.

New Race Specific SUP From Werner Werner -  Werner Paddles has developed the first Stand Up Paddle designed from the ground up specifically for training and racing. The Grand Prix utilizes Werner's proprietary Performance Core technology to create the lightest weight SUP on the market.

A Sea Kayaker's Holiday around Mackay, Queensland Rod Swan - Sea kayakers on holidays in Queensland may pass through Mackay on their way North to the more famous Whitsunday Islands or Hinchinbrook Island. That is unfortunate because the Mackay area has a lot to offer sea kayakers for day trips or even longer paddling excursions. ...

Ballistic Beginning to the 2012 World Series surfski.info - By Jeremy Cotter's own lofty standards, 2011 was a year he'd like to forget.  From the end of 2007 to 2010, the 32-year-old former ocean ironman reached the podium in every ski race he started, at home and abroad. In 2010, for example, he was third at Molokai, second in Mauritius, ...

Frontier 12 Review NuCanoe -  As posted by Jeffonc on NCangler.com : Thanks to Frank from TarRiverPaddleSports (and special mention to the Triangle NuCanoe fan club - aka Brannons64) for getting this boat to Raleigh today and letting us know about it.

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