In deference to the Robe Canyon Race happening tomorrow (Sunday April 25, 2010), here’s a cool video I found on Professor Paddle showing kayakers running the drops – there are some really nice boofs in there. If anyone’s planning on heading out there to watch it should be fun, the race will probably start around 10:30-ish 1 pm-ish [...]
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Last Sunday when I was videoing a bunch of guys running Tumwater I ran into Marco Colella and Jean-Luc Robicheaux, two amazingly good Leavenworth paddlers who are working at getting more people involved in whitewater kayaking through their World Kayak ‘Paddle the Wenatchee’ blog and various events. Marco asked me to pass along an invite to one [...]
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I just helped AquaSports Kayak Shop in Redmond upload a bunch of used and discounted new kayaks for sale onto their website, and since a) I think it looks pretty nice, and b) Libby is prominently featured in a few shots (looking more and more jaded as you go down the page, you’ll notice) I [...]
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Jake Sanders took this video of whitewater kayaker Dave Moroles solo-climbing Castle Rock near Leavenworth, it’s good stuff. (Don’t miss the part 2 minutes into it when he hangs from one arm above an I-don’t-know-how-high drop – really high up, basically, and pret-ty impressive.) I’ll take the opportunity here to also give Dave credit for being [...]
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Leland posted a link on Professor Paddle to his nice review of the 2010 Pyranha Burn, here’s a link to his blog post with the entire Pyranha Burn review on the River Gypsies website. There are a lot of good photos and he goes into quite a bit of depth about the various paces he put [...]
I was surfing around this evening looking for videos that might give some pointers on whitewater kayaking slalom technique and came across this one showing Eoin Rheinisch, Dave Ford, James Cartwright, Campbell Walsh, and Laura Blakeman training for the Canoe Slalom Olympic Test Event in Beijing 2007. I can’t say someone like me can pick [...]
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Back on a gorgeous day in February I joined up with Pete Gott and Rob McKibbin on a venture to see if they could do something spectacular in the whitewater kayak surfing department by towing Rob behind Pete’s motorboat on the Skykomish River. Amazingly, Rob was doing 360s within the first few tows, although I [...]
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