Playak Logo


The Global Paddling Community

Independent - Daily

Login / Connect

Forums

SUPzero Forums

Market

Support American Whitewater! Support American Whitewater!

[please login to make this ad block disappear]

Playak News Flash

Our famous News Flash informs tens of thousands of paddlers around the world about the most popular paddling news each day. Playak editors hand-pick the best headlines 24/7, and those that are viewed most by our readers are sent out in the News Flash. Each Friday, we send out the Weekly Digest (instead of the daily News Flash), containing the top headlines of the past 7 days, as well as the most popular videos and forum topics, plus a list of upcoming events.



Back to Playak News Flash Archive

Playak Weekly Digest - week 37, 2016
Playak Weekly Digest
The world's top paddling news in week 37, 2016.
Palm Blogs Paddle Against Plastic 2016
Palm Blogs - This August I paddled 260 miles around the entire Cornish coast and into North Devon. I didn’t do it for fun, or for a personal challenge, and in fact didn’t really consider the magnitude of the challenge until about two hours into setting off, dripping in sweat, hyperventilating and shovelling Kitkats into my mouth, head down paddling into 20 mph headwinds.
Playak Product Press Releases Silver Cord - the Safest Surf Leash Ever Built
Playak Product Press Releases - After extensive research and testing, Silver Cord is finally ready to reveal their innovative technology to the world. This groundbreaking new product will change the way you look at surf leashes forever. The leash includes elements such as an inner cord that activates when the leash breaks, an emergency Bail Safe Device as well as three interchangeable components.
Adventure Kayak 5 Awesome Accessories We Saw At Outdoor Retailer
Adventure Kayak - Check out the products here which were showed at the Outdoor retailer - PDF, bib, weather forecasting device, swim wear, inflatable suit and see what are all the good features on them that make them very suitable to paddlers.
NRS Duct Tape Diaries Gauley Fest: The Rowdiest Weekend in Summersville, WV
NRS Duct Tape Diaries - Gear up to check out the Gauley Festival coming this month, its celebration of free flowing Gauley river and tons of fun stuff to experience including white water runs. It brings to mind images of carnage and rowdy boaters. NRS Field Rep, Jean Slade, checks in from her van down by the river with these pro tips to maximize your Gauley Fest experience this fall. This is American White water’s fund raising events and the proceeds go to their river conservation efforts.
Kokatat Austria Adventure Part 2
Kokatat - The Soca lived up to the hype with clear water and great scenery! Spending two days, we were able to paddle all the major sections of the Soca, along with a section on one of its tributaries, the Koritnica.
Jackson Kayak How to be a Gypsy
Jackson Kayak - I often get this question, from kids and adults alike. David, how does someone without a license, who’s barely 18, has almost no money in their pocket, and who almost never has any semblance of a plan, get around so much?
Canoe Kayak 2016 ICF Canoe Slalom World Cup Final
Canoe Kayak - The 2016 ICF Canoe Slalom World Cup concludes this weekend on the Sava River in Tacen, Slovenia, a suburb just outside the capital city of Ljubljana.
Rapid Magazine Blog Rafa Ortiz On Chasing Niagara
Rapid Magazine Blog - New kayaking film Chasing Niagara follows Rafa Ortiz on a multi-year journey as he works towards dropping Niagara Falls. The Red Bull Media House and River Roots film is directed by Rush Sturges and trails a crew of talented paddlers around the world with Ortiz as he trains, prepares and balances the risk involved in what would be a revolutionary feat in the kayaking world. Ortiz spoke with us from Mexico about what sparked the idea, how the process consumed his life for a number of years, and how he went about telling his mom and dad ...
Jackson Kayak Lee Valley Boater X
Jackson Kayak - On Saturday 20th August I went up to Lee Valley for their second in a series of four boater X events taking place on the Olympic course.
American Rivers Mining Battles Continue Along the Black Warrior
American Rivers - Conservation groups have filed an intent to sue Drummond Company for illegally discharging waste from the Maxine Mine in Alabama. An ongoing battle aims to reduce the harmful impacts of mining in the Black Warrior River Basin.
Rapid Magazine Blog U.S. National Whitewater Center Water Has High Levels Of Brain-Eating Amoeba
Rapid Magazine Blog - A brain-eating amoeba that led to the death of an Ohio teenager has been identified at unusually high levels in the water her raft flipped in a week before she died. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have announced that eleven samples taken from water at the U.S. National Whitewater Center in North Carolina tested positive for Naegleria fowleri, a freshwater amoeba that can lead to a fatal disease.The U.S. National Whitewater Center has voluntarily suspended their whitewater operations.
Michele Ramazza Norway, the Best Place for Kayaking
Michele Ramazza - Norway is for me the best place in the world for extreme kayaking. Many incredible rivers into a special environment.  
CKS Blog Spencer Huff’s Pyranha 9R Review
CKS Blog - As kayaking continues to progress and push new limits, new kayak designs must evolve to ensure they are up to the task. Up until recently most creek boat designs have been quite similar, wide rounded hulls with big bows and with continuous rocker.
Am. Whitewater AW/VPC Appeal Vermont Move to Restrict Boating on Green River
Am. Whitewater - American Whitewater and Vermont Paddlers Club today appealed the decision by the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) that limits whitewater boating opportunities on the Green River in Morristown.
Trak Blog Trak It Easy
Trak Blog - Nervous, unsure, and scared- yet, somehow still excited is how I felt heading down Highway 2 for the Trak Retreat in Canmore, Alberta.
Athletes with top online media coverage in September
1. Danny Ching
2. Candice Appleby
3. Kai Lenny
To see all the latest headlines, videos, forum discussions and more, visit Playak News Watch. This is the standard version of the newsletter, covering all paddling disciplines. To change the tailoring, please login on Playak, and then click the yellow triangle at the very top of the page to set your interests.
px

Surfrider Foundation
See the AUP for our Acceptable Use Policy and a Privacy Statement. Verein Playak is responsible for all editorial content on this site (including all graphics). No part of this site may be duplicated in any way without explicit permission from Verein Playak. Verein Playak takes great care to only publish original content, but since part of the content is user generated, we cannot always guarantee this 100%. If you notice any copyright violations, please let the editors know through the contact form and they will take appropriate action immediately. As a news and information platform, we republish small text snippets and thumbnail images, but always link to original content on other sites, and thus aim to adhere to a 'Fair Use' policy. If you believe we violate this policy in any particular case, please contact us directly and we'll take appropriate action immediately.