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Playak News Flash - March 29, 2012
The world's latest paddling headlines.

News Watch Headlines Win a free Black Pearl Canoe Paddle Bending Branches - Easy Enough: Just enter your contact details and win a Black Pearl Give Away :) Wiesenwehr Rodeo Martina Wegman - Last weekend I had my first competition of the season, the Wiesenwehr Rodeo in Northern Germany. With temperatures over 20 degrees it was an awesome day to start the 2012 paddling season! As a real rodeo the competition started an hour later than planned and started with the K1 men ... Australian Longboard Surfing Open: SUP Results SUP Connect - The Australian Longboard Surfing Open, formerly known as "Malfunction," was held over the weekend down in Kingscliff, Australia, with an impressive lineup of athletes competing across multiple divisions. Waterfalls on a SUP? Is it possible? playak.net - You have to choose your waterfalls very carefully when paddling a SUP.  You want the falls to be near vertical and not too tall.  The drop in these pictures is about 14 feet tall. Decision to Allow Limited Boating on Chattooga Headwaters Reversed Am. Whitewater -   American Whitewater received the following press release from the US Forest Service. It's another in a long list of challenges over the fight to lift the 35 year ban on human powered non commercial whitewater boating on the headwaters of the Upper Chattooga river. &... Prototypes and ideas Imagine Surf - This is the season when we start really prototyping for the following years toys, and everyone here at Imagine is involved in some way or another. Our up and coming pro rider Mo Freitas has been bouncing ideas back and forth with us and this board is the result of these ideas. Perfect First Weekend of Spring - Salt Water! Frogma - Oh, how I'd been looking forward to last weekend. That it was the first weekend of Spring was nice - but more than that, it was the first weekend in WEEKS where I didn't have any particular responsibilities or prearranged plans and could just go with whatever whim and weather said to do. I said on... Shortboarding SUP style Imagine Surf - Mo Freitas, the unbelievable athlete from Hawaii just keeps pushing and pushing, and today he sent us these photos from his recent session at Jocco's on Hawaii's north shore. What can I say – the guy can surf. Banishing Winter Blues Will Herman - March it may have been but once again summer has arrived early it seems. Last year, for two glorious weeks, we enjoyed an early summer in the Outer Hebrides when April saw unseasonably dry and warm weather settle across Scotland. This year, with summer time just around the corner, ... Stoker Shrimp tail Wilderness Systems -  killer day out on the ultra shallow flats of redfish bay today. had an epic paddle out to my favorite camping spot and caught a few fish on the way. we paddled out to the camp and chilled for a while, had a snack, then enjoyed a perfect conditions for the ride home....

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