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Video: 3 Components to the Kayak Boof

The Aquabatics Calgary team recently came up with a good instructional video on how to boof a kayak. I think it’s helpful that it’s tailored to moderate whitewater, which makes it more usable for a lot of people (even though the concepts and moves are fundamentally the same as they would be on more difficult […]

Evan Moore Paddles High Water Cataracts of the Kern

Here’s some great footage of whitewater kayaker Evan Moore paddling the Cataracts of the Kern in California at around 4400 cfs (huge). [HTML1] Part of the reason I like this video so much is because of how comfortable he looks in the water, even when he’s submerging into or surfacing out of something massive. If […]

Why Kayak Slalom Skills Make You a Better Creekboater

Here’s a sweet video of whitewater slalom kayaker Campbell Walsh in 2009 in Great Britain, notice the side to side ferry moves using a wave hole starting at around .10, it’s a gorgeous example of boat handling skills and shows you why the kind of techniques that paddlers learn by practicing slalom can give you […]

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 […]

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 […]

I’ll Never Pull My Sprayskirt Again… Well, Maybe Not

OK, who are we kidding, I probably will pull my sprayskirt again – but I hope before I do I remember this guy and hang in there for a few extra seconds. This is Mike Hipsher, head guide for Expediciones Chile in 2006, getting worked on the Futaleufu River. The video ends before it’s over, […]

Whitewater Kayaking in Ecuador With Boof Sessions

If you’re thinking about whitewater kayaking in Ecuador I highly recommend kayaking Ecuador with Boof Sessions, my friend Abe Herrera’s whitewater kayaking tour business down there. Word on the eddyline is that this is a great way to get a non-touristy and authentic version of the whitewater experience in Ecuador. “Ecuador is all about Class […]

Whitewater Kayaker Sam Grafton Fires It Up in 2012

Here’s another one from the video chronicles of Dan Patrinellis – highlights of local whitewater kayaker Sam Grafton running all sorts of incredibly huge and difficult stuff in 2012. Some of the drops are on Tumwater Canyon (Wenatchee River), Top Tye Creek, Robe Canyon (Stillaguamish River), Skykomish River, the Chelan Gorge, and some BC runs […]

Upper Upper North Fork Skykomish Waterfall Run

OK, I hang my head in shame… I have not posted on this blog for nearly two months, and I guess it’s time for me to get on it before Ollie from New Zealand writes to me again to say, “What up?” :) Really, things have been busy. More on that later, maybe. In any […]

Video: Rush Sturges Swims Cherry Bomb Falls – But Still Rocks It

This video of Rush Sturges on Upper Cherry Creek, CA, is such an awesome example of being an ultra-competent whitewater kayaker. Yes, he swims, but look at all the other stuff that goes on first. [HTML1] Not only does he get stuck in that hydraulic with a broken paddle and still manage to get out […]

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