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A Good Forward Stroke Is Your Key to Kayaking

The fantastic kayakers winning extreme creeking races in big, technical whitewater all have a powerful forward stroke fueling their moves. It’s the key to virtually everything that gets you where you want to go in kayaking, including the boof stroke. But the forward stroke gets overlooked when people are learning because it seems like a […]

Where NOT to Be In Boulder Drop at Around 1800 cfs

I thought of calling this post “Boulder Drop Never Used To Be This Way!” because that was JP’s outraged-sounding remark when, after a day of serious hole/multiple swimmer carnage on Boulder Drop at a medium to low flow he noticed that – adding injury to insult – the bow of Jon Griffin’s playboat was also […]

Mike, Nick and Co. Kayaking Deer Creek, WA

Mike says Deer Creek is the most underrated whitewater kayaking run in Washington, and it’s only an hour from Seattle. Back in October he showed Nick Baughman, Anne Bilton, Kieran Thurlow and Allen Yip down it, here’s Nick’s video. The cover frame of Mike boofing a ledge is one of my favorite shots – classic […]

Video: Kayaking Ashlu Box and Mine Runs 2016

Nick Baughman teamed up with the venerable Mike Nash and Marco Colella last weekend for an assault on the Ashlu Box and Mine runs in B.C. (Nick’s first runs on the Ashlu), and here’s his sweet video of the action. Here’s the Box video: Ashlu Creek – Box Canyon – Whitewater Kayaking from Nick Baughman […]

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 […]

Whitewater Kayaking Beginner Tips 2 – Eskimo Roll

Troubleshooting the eskimo roll is one of the key things that I think is super helpful for people starting out whitewater kayaking, and I wish I had learned a lot of these rolling tips sooner than I did. The Eskimo Roll Having a reliable roll is key, and I mean key, to having confidence and […]

Whitewater 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Video: 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 […]

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