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Beginner Whitewater Kayaking Tips 1 – Forward Stroke
My friend Jake and I took a new paddler (Tom) down part of the Skykomish River the other day, and it reminded me of all the great kayaking tutorial videos I always tell myself I should put on here. This post is for all the paddlers who are looking for some kind of road map […]
Continue readingWhitewater Kayaking BC Labor Day 2014 & BC River Info Links
We just got back from whitewater kayaking for 3 days in the BC area over Labor Day weekend, and seeing as I’m apparently incapable these days of posting more than once every 3 months I’m going to go straight to the useful stuff (followed probably by the usual stream of whitewater kayaking babble. :) Also […]
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What to Put In Your Whitewater Kayaking Medical Kit
If you’re looking for a good whitewater kayaking first aid kit that’s suitable for multi-day trips, here’s the best one I’ve seen, compliments of Eli Ren. (Used with his permission from his post on Professor Paddle,which is linked to here.) The following is all from Eli’s post, and you can click here for the printable […]
Continue readingVideo: Canadian Whitewater Kayaking Carnage
For your whitewater kayaking video amusement, here’s a sweet compilation of carnage events from the Canadian side of the border compliments of Raphael Boudreault-Simard. “Old music and failed lines” is the theme, so you know it has to be good. [HTML1] Note the two separate clips of a kayaker caught in an absolutely massive wave […]
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Video: The Mother of All Kayak Boofing Tutorials
The other day I was pondering, as I do most days, about how great it would be if someone made a completely awesome whitewater kayaking boof stroke teaching video that broke down and explained all the moves, showed people doing different kinds of boofs in regular and slow motion, and superimposed side-by-side clips of kayakers […]
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Video: Kayak Stroke Tutorial from Michele Ramazza
This is a really in-depth, well explained video tutorial on the kayaking forward stroke by Italian slalom and whitewater paddler Michele Ramazza. If the forward stroke sounds like the simplest of things, keep in mind that people make hour-long videos and write actual books about the forward stroke. Doing it well is not actually all […]
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Video: Kayaker Jeremy Bisson Styling Everything
Dan Patrinellis just posted a great video of local boater Jeremy Bisson on a bunch of Northwest drops including POW on Tumwater Canyon, Spirit Falls on the Little White Salmon, and Pinnacle on the Chelan Gorge (the entire river list is at the end). Here it is: [HTML1] Mike was pointing out how really good […]
Continue readingVideo: Ernie’s Gorge Hydropower Proposal
Update November 2016: Happy to say that this plan has been withdrawn, for now at least. Dan Patrinellis put together a really nice video of himself and the usual suspects paddling on Ernie’s Canyon on the North Fork of the Snoqualmie, along with some information on the dam currently being proposed by Chris Spens for […]
Continue readingRyan Lansche Kayaking South Silver Creek
One of whitewater kayaker Ryan Lansche’s friends sent me a link to this video of him on South Silver Creek in California. Nicely done, and it’s a good one to look at in terms of boofing as well. [HTML1] The thing about big slides like the one you see in this video is that if […]
Continue readingVideo: Classic Whitewater Kayaking Carnage
Dan Patrinellis just put together a sweet video compilation that is basically a whitewater kayaking carnage-fest. Thanks Dan, for reminding me that really good boaters sometimes have crummy lines! [HTML1] For those not familiar, drinking a beer out of a booty is traditional after a swim. And as for Adrian’s hat in the opening scenes, […]
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