Paddling, Dancing, Laughing, Yoga! Costa Rica 2013 Recap! ~ The Dean

Playak News Flash - February 16, 2013
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News Watch Headlines Paddling, Dancing, Laughing, Yoga! Costa Rica 2013 Recap! Girls at Play - Sunshine, exciting whitewater, clear blue rivers, toucans, fresh coffee, morning yoga, Latin dancing, Caribbean style rice and beans!  We LOVE our annual winter whitewater kayaking and yoga trips in beautiful Costa Rica!  This year we had 23 ladies over two trips join us on our adventures.  St. Johns River Log of Ibi - Within a couple hours, we had reached our first portage around a dam and the junction of several dikes that control water levels in the upper basin. New 2013 Dagger Jitsu Review CKS Blog - The Spring / Summer of 2013 will be seeing quite a few new freestyle designs, most notably the Dagger Jitsu. Team D, who has not had a cutting edge boat to work with in the past few years, should be psyched with this brand spanking new, high performance big wave surfing / hole machine. The Abu Dhabi Surf & Paddle All Stars Invitational Is Announced SUP Surf - Abu Dhabi may seem like an unlikely location for a World Class Stand Up Paddle Showdown, but it has all of the ingredients to become a World Class destination for the sport. The Dean Dagger Blogs - The Dean River is located in the coastal range of British Columbia about a 10 hour drive north of Whistler.  The drainage just to the south of the dean is the legendary Homathko river.  The dean caught our eye while planning for a trip to British Columbia last august due to its relatively unknown... The Winter Months Immersion Research - The winter in Scotland is always an interesting experience. Its usually wet and always cold but there is plenty to be done so-long as you are willing to put up with less than perfect conditions. Before Christmas I was able to take advantage of some wet weather mid week and got out on a high level Nevis, Orchy and Etive. Gopro Sponsors Summer Mountain Games SUP Magazine - As with all things in life, change is inevitable. Such is the case with the Vail Valley Foundation's extremely popular Mountain Games. Lower Big Sandy worldkayak - Well it's time for our first event of the year. Of course in my attempt to set up a format that would help ensure water is available we look at the potential for a low water run. 14' Jamie Mitchell Navigator Pro Elite Distressed Mullet - New 14' jamie mitchell pro elite 14' navigator. board is 14' x 29" wide x 6.65" thick with 259 liters of volume. board is new, still in shop. we are liquidation a number of our boards including this one as well as the 12'6" jamie mitchell lahui kai and a number of other surf tech models. Canoe Slalom and Canoe Women events added to Pan-American Games in 2015 ICF - Following its Extraordinary Assembly held on 8th February in Jamaica, the Pan-American Sports Organisation (PASO) announced the addition of Canoe Slalom to the programme of the Pan-American Games in the next edition to be held in Toronto, Canada in 2015. Eastern Surfing Association and Surfing America Realign SUP Magazine - The Eastern Surfing Association (ESA) and Surfing America are pleased to announce that they have realigned effective immediately. Peter Bartl Joins Jp Australia SUP Magazine - The Austrian SUP pioneer, Peter Bartl, starts the 2013 season with JP-Australia. Bartl's most important 2012 accomplishments in the young sport of SUP include first place at the German NP SUP Trophy, third place at the longest SUP race in the world, the 11-City Tour in Holland, and first place at the Salon Nautic Paris Sprint race last December. Steve Marfleet's VE Paddle Review VE Paddles - I have been paddling white water for a couple of years now and have recently stepped it up a gear over the past 18 months to try and get myself competent on grade 4, The choice of VE paddle that I went for was a 197cm full carbon with cranked shaft. Surfski Review: Stellar SR beginner to intermediate ocean surfski 12 month review Fat Paddler - Since I wrote my first beginners review of the Stellar SR surfski a year ago, I've put my various SRs  through more conditions than you could possibly imagine. The Tiderace Pace 17 Tour Mark Sundin - Four more sleeps 'til we get the brand new Tiderace  Pace 17 Tour, the most anticipated expedition kayak since the revolutionary Rockpool Taran,  onto the water. The Tiderace guys have just sent us some pics from the first paddle, ...

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