Paddling tips, tricks, news and gear reviews from an Unsponsored point of view

Month: March 2015 (Page 2 of 7)

Prijon Cali – First Look

I’ve been a huge fan of Prijon boats for years and have owned a fair few including a T Canyon, Avenger, Delirious, Delirium and Release. The newest whitewater boat to the Prijon line up is the Cali.

Specifications:

Length: 8’10”
Width: 27″
Volume: 90 Gallons
Weight: 45lbs

Prijon Cali 2

The Prijon Cali is Prijon’s latest creek boat and is an update to the Pure XL. The images of the new Cali come direct from Prijon USA.

Continue reading

Karma Unlimited – Little White Salmon

Karma Unlimited

Isaac Levinson takes the Jackson Kayaks Karma Unlimited down the little white salmon river. Superb long boat action from the USA.

Continue reading

Southern Goods

Southern Goods

Team Galaxy and the Live Foolishly Crew team up for a week of rain, beers, and boofs in the southeast. Galaxy. Brown.

Continue reading

Spade Kayaks – Ace Of Spades Images

The following images of the new Ace Of Spades are hot off the press from the guys at Spade Kayaks.

Ace Of Spades 1

The images (apart from the last one) are photographs of the production kayaks.

Continue reading

Let Me Tell Ya Bro About The Tellico

Let Me Tell Ya Bro About The Tellico is an awesome whitewater kayaking video filmed using GoPro equipment and created by John Keller.

Let Me Tell Ya Bro About The Tellico

Decided to mix it up a bit and go somewhere none of us had been in a while. If you haven’t gone out on a whim lately, I totally recommend it.

Continue reading

Fly Like A Squirrel, Sting Like A Bee

Fly Like A Squirrel

A little recap from this weekends Greenings with two of my favorite boats the LiquidLogic Stinger and LiquidLogic Flying Squirrel. Was also lucky enough to get my personal first longboat decent of Gorilla.

Continue reading

Rey del Rio Iker B

Rey del Rio Iker B is a great edit from SB productions.

Rey del Rio Iker B

Continue reading

Clean Rope

I had a bit of time today so had a go at modifying my two throw lines. I much prefer the clean rope principle where the end of the throw line that you keep hold of is a clean piece of rope i.e. has no knots or tubing.

Before:

Clean rope principle

After:

Clean rope principle

The second modification I carried out was the removal of the tubing from the bag end of the line and the reduction in the size of the loop. The idea is that the loop is big enough to clip a karabiner into but is far too small to get a hand stuck.

Continue reading

Flying the Flying Squirrel!

Flying the Flying Squirrel

Excited to be back paddling and back on the Green after suffering a rib injury before the Green Race. This time though, things are a bit different. Picked up a new LiquidLogic Flying Squirrel and man is this thing sweet. It’s got so much speed and glide to it, it just makes running the Green that much cooler.

Continue reading

GoPro Kayaking The Stikine With Rafa Ortiz

GoPro Kayaking The Stikine With Rafa Ortiz

GoPro Athlete Rafa Ortiz and Isaac Levinson tackle one of the most challenging big water runs on the planet, the Stikine. Join these two in remote British Columbia where they confront harsh wilderness and multiple days of class five whitewater.

Continue reading

Palm Equipment – Gradient And Camber

Gradient And Camber

The new shoes from Palm Equipment, the Gradient and Camber, have started to land with retailers within the UK. There are some arriving at Unsponsored HQ for testing very shortly.

Continue reading

Palm Equipment Alpha PFD – First Look

Unsponsored Palm Alpha PFD

It’s been a few years since Palm release a basic PFD. The Palm Equipment Alpha PFD is exactly that, a no frills back to basics PFD that is also ICF approved so can be used by paddlers in whitewater slalom.

Unsponsored Palm Alpha PFD

Continue reading

« Older posts Newer posts »

© 2024 Unsponsored

Theme by Anders NorénUp ↑