Day 4 of The World Freestyle Championships ~ 2013 Worlds Mens Prelims

Playak News Flash - September 7, 2013
The world's latest paddling headlines.

News Watch Headlines Day 4 of The World Freestyle Championships Werner - Reporting live from the Nantahala Outdoor Center and the site of the Freestyle World Championships. Day 4 and today is the highly anticipated Men's Premlim round. Below are some photos of international athlete Brandon Hepburn getting some practice in. Record Crowds Visit Vail for The 2013 Gopro Mountain Games Press Releases - The 12th edition of Vail's summer Mountain Games, the inaugural year with GoPro as the new title sponsor, experienced a dramatic increase in spectators and local economic impacts, along with a substantial increase in television and media exposure. 2013 Worlds Mens Prelims Palm Blogs - The long day of Men's Prelims has come to a close. Prelims are always a bit of a weird one, you have no throw away rides (2 rides – combined score counts) and everyone is usually a bit tense, you get some paddlers saving themselves and others going all out to show what they can do. World'S Longest Stand Up Paddle Race SUPracer - The world's longest stand up paddle race, the SUP 11 City Tour, is happening all this week in the Netherlands. From the 4th to 8th of September competitors will paddle the 220km course in five separate stages, Tour de France-style, making it one of the hardest races in the world of SUP racing. Paddling Preparation SUP Magazine - Keeping up with the newest fitness trends and finding out what's legit and what's just a marketing ploy can seem like a full time job. Something that's certainly not a fad is the fact that pre-workout static stretching is not only ineffective, but can also be counter-productive. Cutting Edge Easy Mount Standup Paddle Board Lighting System Standup Journal - SUP enthusiasts, imagine your SUP board illuminates at night, it will be light in darkness for SUP paddlers which is something bound to be very useful. Now Pau Hana's Sea Mount and NOCQUA's waterproof LED lighting makes attaching lumen light bars to the bottom of SUP boards possible without a harness. An innovation to providing light tracks like halos around your SUP board. Read on… This Sequence Sums Up Why We Love The Battle Of The Paddle SUPracer - BOP, Battle of Paddle, a great race everyone this month should be looking forward to. Here read and picture the BOP scenario, nice waves, worlds best SUP races fighting in the paddle of the battle. SUPracer shows you how things were last year in the Battle of the Paddle…just shows us BOP 2013 has great things in store. Another Zinger on The Nantahala River ICF - Day two of competition is wrapping up, and it was another zinger on the Nantahala river. Wednesday the squirt boat, both men and women classes faced off, and the junior women had their semi-finals in the afternoon. My Encounters with Small Hydro Dams Palm Blogs - Calling European Alps my home left me stunned by the amount of unpopulated nature and free-flowing rivers in British Columbia. European kayakers can only imagine how much of our good white-water has been lost to the dams. Another Summer Ends on The Ottawa. Seth Ashworth - I feel like I say the same thing every year, This summer was the busiest ever. This year I was once again lucky enough to be teaching kayaking on the Ottawa River for Ottawa Kayak School. Being on the river every day is awesome and this has been one of the wildest summers ever. Imagery From The America'S Cup Open SUP Magazine - The Standup World Series (SUWS) made waves in San Francisco Bay last weekend as the America's Cup Open was held with sailing's America's Cup. Return to The Gorge WaterTurtle - I'm not a very good jumper but you can't help but get some good air in the Gorge. Airing it out at Doug's Beach on the WA side of the Columbia River Gorge. I still have an image etched in my brain of my buddy Rob just getting some serious hang time on one jump just downwind of me . Sam Ross in The Mix – 11 Cities Tour SUPboarder - SUP instructor trainer, top coach and top UK racer Sam Ross is currently knocking on the door of the top 10 in the grueling 11 cities tour in Holland, in which he has chosen to compete on his Red Paddle Co 14'0" Elite race board. Sea Kayak with Gordon Brown, Volume 3 Have Kayaks, Will Travel - If you're jealous of the paddling opportunities and access in Scotland, Sea Kayak with Gordon Brown, volume 3 will only exacerbate that emotion. This two-and-a-half-hour DVD begins with Handling Emergency Situations, which involves staged rescues by HM Coastguard helicopter and Royal National Lifeboat Institution boats. Buck Creek Lake -2 Log of Ibi - After the Battle of Fallen Timbers, the Treaty of Greenville made official a huge, monstrous land seizure that would displace the Wyandot, Lenape, Shawnee, Miami, Ottawa, Chippewa, Wea, Potawatomi, Kaskaskia, and Kickapoo tribes from the lands that would create Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana.

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