Paddling tips, tricks, news and gear reviews from an Unsponsored point of view
I’m still on my adventure. I don’t know when it’ll end or how far along I am but I’m praying I’m still at the beginning.
I always hated kayaks. As a youth worker on a summer camp it was always the kayaks that I hated the most. Going round and round in circles until set upon by the young people in my group filling it with water and submerging into the cold river.
Just in from Benn Goodwill. Footage for a weekend’s worth of boating in Wales.
Some footage from the weekend boating, its always a good day on the river! even got a bit of carnage in here.
We have a Whetman Equipment Sea Kayak contact line in for review from Whetman Equipment. The system is designed to safely tether two kayaks together for short line contact rescue.
A great edit of the Middle Tule from the guys at Prijon (USA). If you haven’t tried a Prijon whitewater kayak you are missing out.
A tough class V run at high flows, the Middle Fork of the Tule is a very flow dependant run! Here at low flows it’s much friendlier.
The dates for the 2016 Younguns Freestyle events have been announced. This grassroot series is well worth checking out either to take part in or to go along and support.
Of the couple of thousand posts on the site almost all have been written by myself. To expand Unsponsored’s reach I want to increase the number of posts. To put it quite simply I have visions on Unsponsored becoming the Pinkbike of the kayaking/canoeing world. I’ve said it now so there is no going back!
I need help to do this but cannot offer fame or fortune. However if you have a great video edit, a trip in the planning, a trip that has taken place, an event, some reflection on the sport or even gear reviews. The chances are many people will want to find out more and have a read/view. You’ll have your words, pictures and videos viewed by thousands of people each and every day. As always full credit is given.
So…can you help, what do you have?
Ten Waterfalls for Macmillan follows Richard Brinkmann on his quest to raise funds for a new Cancer research centre in Brighton. Well worth a watch and a great cause.
Something a little different for this Movie Monday. For the 22nd of Feb 2016 we have Movie Monday – Rescue Special aka Swims, pins and rescues.
We’ve been sent a photo showing what appears to be a Waka Tuna. However this is not the hull shape that we are familiar with.
Here is a few shots of the current design for reference.
Is it a new design? Has it been shopped?
We are trying to find out more.
Hot for 2016 is the new Palm Atom Drysuit. We saw one of these at Paddle Expo back in September 2015 so are very pleased to get hold of one for review on Unsponsored.
It’s been a few years since we last tried a Palm suit here at Unsponsored HQ which gives us the opportunity to take a fresh look at what Palm Equipment have been doing to develop their suits.
This is just madness. First they dam a beautiful river and then propose to put a huge landfill site on its banks.
Corsica Sessions 2013 (Kayak Session Short Film of the Year Awards 2013 – Entry#1) from Kayak TV (Kayak Session Mag) on Vimeo.
See the detail below from Kayak Session with a link to the online petition.
We were at the BUCS slalom at Teesside last weekend.
A cold and wet weekend but spirits were high.
All photographs taken using a Nikon D7100 DSLR and Nikkor 70-200mm VR II.
No filters, cropping or editing in any way.
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