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Playak News Flash - September 26, 2019
Playak News Flash - September 26, 2019
The world's latest paddling headlines.
unsponsored Exploring Tibet In Our Kayaks Part 2
unsponsored - Bren and Adrian headed out to Tibet earlier this year. Check out their second video instalment.
Jackson Kayak Claire O’s Gear Picks for 2020
Jackson Kayak - In 22 years of kayaking I have come along way from my wild water bucket helmet, ribbed panel life jacket, borrowed kayak and paddle and a funky thick wetsuit. Looking back to be completely honest I loved that gear. That gear was awesome. It was my gear. It was warm, it kept me safe and more than anything it meant I could join my friends out on the rivers around Yorkshire two or three times a week paddling.
ICF France Make Flying Start to Wildwater World Titles
ICF - France has dominated the team events on the opening day of the ICF wildwater canoeing world championships in La Seu, Spain, picking up three of the five gold medals on offer.
TotalSUP SUP Race Across Scotland: Great Glen Challenge 2019
TotalSUP - The Great Glen Challenge is a 92km race across the width of Scotland. The challenge will take paddlers through some of the most beautiful scenery in the world and across the mighty Loch Ness. TotalSUP caught up with the super busy UK endurance paddler, Joanne Hamilton-Vale, organiser of the challenge, founder of the UK Endurance Race Series, and one of the toughest female SUP athletes in the world, for a quick insight into this epic race.
Distressed Mullet The Catalina Classic Paddleboard Marathon2019 Recap Video
Distressed Mullet - The Catalina Classic is Everest for prone paddlers. The history. The soul. This is the prone paddleboard race so many aspire to complete and compete in. It has a special place in our heart at Distressed Mullet and few people cover the event as intimately and honestly as Chris Aguilar with Fin Film Company.
ICF Olympic quotas and world titles up for grabs in Spain
ICF - The biggest field of athletes in more than 15 years will take to the waters of La Seu in Spain this week, with the double goal of becoming 2019 ICF canoe slalom world champion, and also earning their country a place at next year’s Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
TotalSUP Stand Up Paddleboarding Monster Waves: Christian Andersen shares extreme SUP tips
TotalSUP - Now in its 4th year, the Red Bull Heavy Water event on the 2019 APP World Tour schedule is set to challenge once again the best paddlers in the world with a monster swell and radical conditions. The San Francisco event is dubbed one of the most extreme SUP races in the world and TotalSUP had a unique opportunity to catch up with Fanatic Team Rider and SUP phenom, Christian Andersen aka Polar Bear, who first completed this epic challenge at only 16 years of age.
SUPracer An Ultra Adventure: 70% of Teams Didn’t Finish – Bart De Zwart on the Muskoka River X Race
SUPracer - For me, the X in this race represents the unknown; you never know what you’re going to get at Muskoka. And that was truer than ever this year, when rough weather forced organizers to cut this ultra short after 70% of competitors had already been forced to retire.
WWTCC Dry Suits: Time to Suit Up and Get Going
WWTCC - With summer starting to fade into memory and the cold, dark, and hopefully wet, embrace of winter starting to descend upon us, the time has never been more perfect to start thinking about updating your dry-wear. More specifically your dry suit.
Tony Paradise A Bit of Everything in Bay Bulls
Tony Paradise - The forecast for today was winds from the north at 20 kms, gusting to 40.  I suggested a paddle in Bay Bulls.  A paddle along the north side of the harbour would moderate the affects of the wind.  Jenn and I met shortly before 10:00 in Bay Bulls with not a breath of wind apparent. 
Standup Journal Ogunquit, Maine Shark Sighting
Standup Journal - Paddlers in Maine captured an up close and personal encounter with a 6-8 foot shark this past weekend. There has been much in the news about the abundance of shark activity on Cape Cod with a few shark attacks making headlines in recent years.
Jackson Kayak Taking Someone New
Jackson Kayak - I grew up in the outdoors. My father has been hunting and fishing his whole life, so from the time I could barely walk, I was in the duck blind, woods, or in a boat fishing. It was and is how we live and to me it is a way of life. Not everyone is blessed with the opportunity to experience the outdoors like I do. I always say that I get to experience sunrises, sunsets, and other magnificent nature occurrences on a consistent basis that many people will never experience. Watching and listening to the woods come alive as the horizon barely starts to lighten while I am sitting in a deer stand is one of my favorites.
SUP Connect This week's important SUP Weekly news Recap
SUP Connect - Get some awesome SUP yoga beginner tips, and the World's extrem SUP race is coming up next month in San Francisco with Red Bull Heavy Water!! , and watch out for more such news.
SUP International Portugal Paddleboarding Adventure With Trev & Connor
SUP International - Starboard SUP Dream Team duo of Connor Baxter & Trevor Tunnington explore picturesque Portugal on the Sprint and All Star, with guest appearance feat. Anae Baxter on the iGo inflatable paddleboard.
SUP International Fanatic Rapid Air Range 2020
SUP International - For adventure seekers paddling down streams, touring rivers, or shooting white water rapids the bullet proof Rapid Air range are the ultimate inflatable river SUPs.
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