Without a good set of well fitting hip pads you may find any advancement in your paddling skills impossible. Basically if your seat is wide enough to slide a hand between your hips and the seat walls, you’ll probably need to add hip pads to customise your boat’s fit.
Month: January 2014 (Page 4 of 5)
Ride The Line from Danny Riley on Vimeo.
Thanks to everyone I have paddled with this year (2013). I have met lots of new people and lots of great opportunities have come my way too. I hope this new upcoming year to be even better. Enjoy.
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2013 was a huge year for Unsponsored with an exponential growth in new visitors.
There are already number of plans in place to make 2014 even greater. In the meantime here are a few links to some of the most popular Unsponsored posts of 2013.
The Playboater Troubleshooter Series is brought to you by Wave Sport Kayaks and H2o Dreams LLC.
This new series looks to tackle the freestyle discipline in the same approach as Chris did in the Whitewater Troubleshooter series, through typical pitfalls, as well as a description of why the physics work, not just how.
In this episode Chris Wing talks about the importance of learning in holes before waves to prevent avoidance mentalities and how our previous positions of power translates to powerful movement in holes. This is a great building block for any paddler even if your end goal isn’t to play, as it is only a matter of time before you find yourself in one.
The Playboater Troubleshooter Series is brought to you by Wave Sport Kayaks and H2o Dreams LLC.
This new series looks to tackle the freestyle discipline in the same approach as Chris did in the Whitewater Troubleshooter series, through typical pitfalls, as well as a description of why the physics work, not just how.
In this episode Chris Wing gives you the basics of how the hull interacts when it starts to plane out and how the previous lesson still relates to movement on waves. Waves typically are the most sought after and least intimidating features to play on, but also the least understood.
Kayaking the Zambezi river – Mat Dumoulin from Dumoulin mathieu on Vimeo.
Here is a video from our trip to the Zambezi river. The most amazing piece of white water I’ve been lucky to paddle. It’s the best white water playground on earth, with great freestyle, big lines and awesome rafting.
Check out the Zambezi Rapid Guide.
Leven 29/12/2013 from sam clegg on Vimeo.
If you are running whitewater I strongly believe that all members of the paddling group should carry and throw line/bag AND know how to use it safely/effectively. I would also say that if you are carry a line you must also carry a knife that is capable of cutting it.
The choice of throw lines/bags is vast and although they may look the same there are some distinct differences that you must consider before selecting the right one for you. Continue reading
End of 2013 Rowdyness! from Eddyline Productions on Vimeo.
A short raw clip of a very high water Mellte, awesome way to bring 2013 to a close!
Some serious WW action. Enjoy.
Year 2013 in Review Webisode #4 from TiTs Deep on Vimeo.
Women all around the world were getting TiTs DEEP this year. This webisode features the highlights in the Whitewater Kayaking scene.
Filmed using GoPro kit.
GoPro Hero 3’s – Silver, Black and silver with remote now on Sportpursuit.
On the 2nd Jan 2014 Rory Woods ran Cauldron Snout on the River Tees (UK) and ended up taking a bad swim. Having successfully tackled the class V+ Cauldron Snout on several previous occasions Rory broke out of the top eddy and ran the Snout. Here are Rory’s unedited thoughts on what happened when it all went wrong.
Photo: Ben Johnson. Paddler: Rory Woods.
For context, the level is a bit higher than Sam (click to view video) ran it, with overspill on the dam as well as both pipes. I’ve run it a few times before, but always lower. It shook me a bit, and I hope I will learn from it. I’ve always believed in safety coming from the certainty that you will get the moves right, irrespective of the consequences. Of course, if the consequences are bad enough, you need to leave some margin in your level of certainty. Over lots of years of very gradually paddling harder and harder stuff, I really thought that my judgement of what I could definitely do was pretty accurate. I’ve always been a bit proud of my ability to get on and get pressure moves right without headgames getting in the way once I’d made a decision. It shocked me to go back and look at the rapid and think that maybe I’ve been fooling myself for a while in my desire to run stuff.
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