Dipper Creek 2011 ~ Best in the West ~ The Bow Stall ~ 2011 Wrap Up!

Playak News Flash - November 15, 2011
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Dipper Creek 2011 LiquidLore - In the aftermath of the huge runoff year that was 2011, we were all speculating that many of the late season classics might not come in because of persistent high flows - for some runs that was true. For example, I don't think anybody got down the Stikine ...

Best in the West Willy P - Howdy Ya'll! In my humble opinion, the Middle Fork of the Kings river is the best California Class V kayak run. After completing all the legendary rivers featured in the 7 Rivers Expedition, with the exception of Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne, I feel pretty comfortable giving MFK top honors.

The Bow Stall Wavesport Blogs - The bow stall is an advanced playboating move that involves balancing vertically on the bow of your kayak in flat water. This move requires amazing control and will take lots of practice to master. Mastering the bow stall will improve your vertical moves and help you better understand the balance ...

Homathko Photo Update Fluid Blog - Hey Guys, Its been awhile between updates, a busy season in BC followed by an amazing huck fest in Mexico. Adrian has posted a couple of videos from the Homathko but here is my photo essay from one of my top five multi days ever. Enjoy ...

2011 Wrap Up! worldkayak blogs - 2011 was an exhilarating year for me! I started out with a bang at my favorite creek, Brush Creek, where I was first in the Jr. Women's creek race and Jr. Slalom, and ended with one of my favorite American Whitewater fundraisers, the Feather River Festival. In between, I won 10 gold medals at the North American Jr. Olympics in Lyons, ...

Ode to Prijon Kevin McCabe - By Sonya Everyone has seen them at the back of the club store lurking and refusing to die and of course they're too practical to dump as they still have that annual novice distance race use, they must have been really popular here at some stage! Made form serious HTP plastic these are the strongest...

Park and Huck Rio Turbio 20 Footer New River Academy - The Turbio has special energy as it slopes off Chile's most famous volcano. Volcan Villarrica fantastically towers the region and the Rio Turbio flows through a geologically young basalt field as it's cone steams gases. Just five minutes from the New River Academy base at Pucon Kayak Hostel lies a clean twenty footer.

Write-up: San Joaquin (Tied for First) A Wet State (CA) - Where to start… I will just come out and say it. This is one of the best runs in the state. Period. Think of the classic nature of the rapids on Cherry Creek or 49 to Bridgeport. Now imagine massive granite walls rising all around you like in Devil's Canyon. Now make the canyon walls even more impressive, turn the forest into High Sierra, and make the rapids taller and fluffier

Kayak re-cycling Palm Blogs - Our Dagger Europe kayaks have made some small inroads by using production wastage to create the industries first re-cycled boat, the Fiesta, but that's just the tip of the ice berg.

Matt Bouman tops in East London surfski.info - East London - Durban surfski ace Matt Bouman outsmarted a quality field to win the Automall Pete Marlin Memorial surfski race in East London in superb big downwind racing conditions, using a direct inside line to set up a handsome two and a half minute victory margin.

2011: Post 56 – Tors Cove to Lamanche Newfoundland Kayakoholic - At the end of May a few of us paddled from Tors Cove to Lamanche... see post 17.  What a day that was... Tony, Clyde, and I decided to do the same paddle again today.  It was another great day... very similar to the conditions we had back in May.

Few more from Yesterday Atlantic Paddle Surfing - Jesse has the new HD2 GoPro camera and it has better features and larger mega pixel format with a 10 pic burst allowing sequence shots.. Here are some of the pics. We switched up paddling into waves and taking pics. Enjoy..

Product Review: The Advanced Elements Convertible Kayak for One or Two Paddlers AirKayaks - We recently had an opportunity to  re-acquaint ourselves with a very popular all-time classic –the Advanced Elements AE1007 AdvancedFrame Convertible inflatable kayak, which features three seating positions to allow solo or tandem paddling.

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