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Playak Weekly Digest - week 08, 2017
Playak Weekly Digest
The world's top paddling news in week 08, 2017.
Rapid Magazine Blog 3 Whitewater Secrets From Chris Gragtmans
Rapid Magazine Blog - So many aspects of whitewater kayaking are counter to our natural instincts. Bring your head up last. Lean towards the rock. Don’t get in the back seat. These well-meaning words of advice are recited to nearly every single beginner kayaker; they’re our mantras to conquering our natural reactions. After 20 years of kayaking and 15 years of class V, I have seen a lot of teaching techniques, successes and failures. There is some advice that I have found tremendously helpful and powerful for early paddlers, yet it's not as often repeated.
Palm Blogs Top Tips – The Hand of God Rescue for Small People
Palm Blogs - Since I've been teaching kayaking, I’ve gotten quite good at Hand of God rescues. I am only small (5’2") and so to reach over a large creek boat is tough, but I have learned a little trick.
Rapid Magazine Blog Why Portaging Doesn't Make You Less Of A Real Whitewater Paddler
Rapid Magazine Blog - Here whenever this whitewater paddler paddles or rafts the Petawawa through Algonquin Park, the Crooked Chute gives paddler tension, the reason is he may need to opt to portage this section if he finds it too dangerous to paddle. However, he convinced himself that just because he decides to portage and skip paddling some rapids, it does not mean he is not a white water paddler. It’s ok, if you opt not to paddle a rapid that you know is beyond you and your not ready for it. Read on…
Canoe Roots Enjoy some news that would interest you paddlers and outdoor people
Canoe Roots - Here is news for paddler mind’s appetite – read about rafting economic value to the economy of Colorado, a GPS device for dog owners, a company that’s come up with a folding kayak that weighs just 10 kg, enjoyt the video of a people playing in the ocean surf and more…
Canoe Roots Have You Ever Repaired Your Canoe With a Camp Stove?
Canoe Roots - It was evening when we discovered the hole in the canoe. The four of us stood in a huddle staring blankly at the inch-long gash. How'd that happen? someone asked.
Adventure Kayak Sea Kayaking In Patagonia Photo Highlight
Adventure Kayak - Scottish Photographer shares his out of the world experience of paddling 800 kms through Patagonia’s wild, western fjords. It was an ice filled landscape without roads or people. Check out his amazing photograph that shows the landscape, and read his description and get a feel of how it feels to paddle such places. All these experience of beautiful Nature and it’s elements motivate paddlers to go out on expeditions, to unknown places and icy terrain, paddling kilometres and kilometres like these two have.
Kayak Angler Magazine Two kayak Fishing Television series to watch out for…
Kayak Angler Magazine - Two programs on kayak fishing for us to watch – they are Heliconia’s acclaimed “Kayak Bassin’” and “Knot Right Outdoors” television series, it would be sponsored by Wilderness Systems. There will be funny-man Chad Hoover in “Knot Right Outdoors”, we can watch his entertaining backwoods adventures while getting tips and tricks on kayak fishing all along. Know more about these two programs that is promoting the sport of kayak fishing, check out the channel and schedule of when the programs would come on television.
Kayak Angler Magazine Here are items you can attach or have in your kayak to carry your gear
Kayak Angler Magazine - You bought a kayak or board and now you want to rig it for fishing. Rod holders, electronics, mounts, lights, cameras and accessories are easy to add thanks to modern marvels. Nowadays, most fishing accessories are not limited to kayaks; they’re made to attach to boats, ATVs, motorcycles and cool- ers. If you play it smart, you can attach multiple gadgets with one mount. Here are items to help you attach/store your accessories from camera to fishing gear on your kayak
Adventure Kayak Olly Hicks 1,200 mile kayak expedition from Greenland to Scotland
Adventure Kayak - Here is Olly Hicks going to do a expedition it is a 1,200-mile kayak journey from Greenland to Scotland. There is a myth that “Finmen” about hundred years ago paddled all the way from Greenland to Scotland. By means of kayak that was made with seal skin . HIcks is going to paddle and check weather Finmen could have done this paddling this, he is trying to recreate history. Here Hicks tells us more on his latest paddle expedition.
Canoe Kayak The Lower Canyons of the Rio Grande
Canoe Kayak - It’s an effort to get to Big Bend in west Texas. That gooseneck of border isn’t on the way to anywhere. And it’s a daunting place once you arrive searing summer heat, thorny vegetation, sheer rock canyons. It’s an arid, rugged, exposed land full of jutting volcanic outcrops.
Canoe Kayak GoPro Mountain Games 2017 registration opens
Canoe Kayak - It is with zero hyperbole that we can say that the 2016 GoPro Mountain Games were the most energetic, enjoyable mountain sports event the Colorado Rockies have ever seen.
SUP Magazine Sunset Beach Pro Begins Today
SUP Magazine - The Sunset Beach Pro gets underway today with the world's best SUP surfers taking on double overhead conditions. The post Sunset Beach Pro Begins Today appeared first on SUP Magazine .
Jackson Kayak Flat Water Backloop
Jackson Kayak - Getting bummed about colder weather? Not looking forward to moving into a pool for the winter? Well here’s something that can keep you trying for a bit at least, even if you think you’ve got every flatwater trick in the book down- the elusive flatwater back loop.
SUP Magazine Know the activitie happenings at the GoPro Mountain Games 2017 - Overview
SUP Magazine - It is with zero hyperbole that we can say that the 2016 GoPro Mountain Games were the most energetic, enjoyable mountain sports event the Colorado Rockies have ever seen. It’s not surprising that the energy levels are high this year as we at the Vail Valley Foundation get fired up for this beloved event once again in 2017. Registration for the Go Pro games opened yesterday. Here is a glimpse on what you can expect this year there.
SUPracer Battle of the Brands Has Been Updated With the Latest Team Changes at SIC and F-One.
SUPracer - We thought it might be interesting to extend the SUP Racer World Rankings and look beyond just the individual athletes. So, inspired by the Formula One Constructor’s Championship, we created Battle of the Brands to rank the world’s best race teams.
Athletes with top online media coverage in February
1. Kai Lenny
2. Rush Sturges
3. Sophia Bartlow
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