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Playak News Flash - January 14, 2016
Playak News Flash - January 14, 2016
The world's latest paddling headlines.
PaddleFit Tag a Friend Who Wants to Go to Grand Cayman and Do Headstands
PaddleFit - Tag a friend who wants to go to Grand Cayman and do headstands with Kiristen.
SUP Fitness Training Video to Dominate SUP Surfing and Downwind Performance by Suzie Cooney
SUP Fitness - The exercise in this video is called the Indo Board Floater Surf Stance and will help you dominate your SUP surfing skills, catch lots more waves, help you maintain board and rail control and build your over all leg endurance. For downwind paddlers, moving your feet and having cat-like reactions to feel the board to catch more bumps is super critical and this exercise will also help you get the steep drops and keep you gliding.
SUP Examiner SUP Surfing in Morocco
SUP Examiner - SUP Surfing Moroccan Style Once upon a time, long before the modern advent of stand up paddling I had the opportunity to spend a fair amount of time in Morocco.
SUPracer Dear Isa, We Really Need to Know What’S Happening with The Worlds
SUPracer - I woke up to a familiar sight this morning: A message on Facebook from a top paddler asking me when/where the 2016 ISA World Championship is going to be held. It was from an athlete who has already qualified and is trying to organised their entire season (and travel budget) around the Worlds.
Wave of Wellness Stick to Your New Year’s Resolution Like Glue
Wave of Wellness - We all have good intentions to stick to our New Year’s resolutions to be healthier, feel better, get moving & eat well all very important goals for a successful & positive year.
SUP Magazine Paddle Healthy Indoor Sup Studios, So Hot This Winter
SUP Magazine - Kayak Pro’s SUP ergo-meter is one of many new indoor SUP machines designed to keep your body a SUP machine through the winter. Photo courtesy of SUP the Workout.
SUP Connect How Rand Perkins Became A Paddle Legend
SUP Connect - It was 1980, long before the days of modern Stand Up Paddle Boarding. Rand Perkins was standing to paddle as he raced canoes down class 3 and 4 rapids. Everyone else was kneeling. In those days, paddling in a canoe was executed on one side­ your dominant paddling side. Not so for “the Alien”, as Perkins is affectionately known by his competitors.
SUP Fitness Book Review How to Increase Your Standup Paddling Peformance Beginner to Elite
SUP Fitness - When I first started standup paddling some five years ago, there was virtually nothing available, either online, or in bookstores that was especially helpful. One or two books were out there, but the sport was new.
Jackson Kayak New Years Day Paddle – Carnage, Rescue and Fun
Jackson Kayak - According to the Vail Daily, the temperature for the annual New Year’s Day Shoshone Paddle was 9 degrees; our coldest New Year’s Day on the river yet.
Paddle Making Historic Paddle Illustration: C. Krieghoff - Higher Resolution Image
Paddle Making - Over the years I've posted on the various canoe-themed artwork of Cornelius Krieghoff (1815 – 1872). A 2010 write up discussed the paddle decoration on a well known painting Indian Encampment at Falls.
Inflatable Kayaks & Packrafts Walking with Sharks
Inflatable Kayaks & Packrafts - Why doesn’t anyone paddle around Shark Bay, Jeff? It seems ideal for beginners like us. Name puts them off I reckon. It’s famous for big tiger sharks. National Geographic did a doco there once.
American Rivers Polluters Attempt Yet Another Attack on Clean Water Rule
American Rivers - Congress has launched at least fourteen legislative attacks on the Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps’ Clean Water Rule since it was proposed in April of 2014 this week marks one more.
Kayak Angler Magazine Fishing Skill: Expert Minimalism Tactics
Kayak Angler Magazine - If you’re a kayak angler, chances are that you have had an experience in over loading tackle in your kayak. Huge storage bags and over a dozen plastic lure cases have lined my yak plenty of times.
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