Immersion Research have made some series tweaks to their Royale spraydeck. Here’s what they have done:
We have listened to customer feedback and put on a new grab handle that retains the high vis brightness and adds a little extra grip.
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LVM (Lunch Video Magazine) was a superb outfit of paddlers publishing DVDs showing paddling exploits from around the world. Sadly LVM stopped producing videos back in 2011 or there abouts. I found this little excerpt on Vimeo in John Weld’s (Immersion Research) video library.
LVM States Series- Idaho! from John Weld on Vimeo.
A nice little video showing the new WW development up in Scotland from friend of Unsponsored Mark Mulrain.
Pinkston Watersports Preview from Mark Mulrain on Vimeo.
I was very lucky to get a try on Glasgow’s new whitewater course on the 22nd of January.
The design of the course is not final, plans are in place to move the blocks around to make the features as good as they can be.
What a great facility for Scottish kayaking!
Music: Foster the People – Helena Beat
Mark Mulrain kindly sent one of the new IR K2 Union Suits to try out along with the Royale spraydeck.
Check out my thoughts on the Royale here.
The Immersion Research Royale is a rand based spraydeck with a lip that sits on the outside of the rand.
Thanks to the guys at Immersion Research I was hooked up with one of the brand new Immersion Research The Royale spray skirts.
Now I have have said this before but will say it again – for most of my paddling career (28yrs+) I have used Playboater decks and it has only been Immersion Research who have been able to tempt me away from the brand. At present I own a couple of IR skirts. The first is a rand based (more on that later) skirt the Special K and the bungee based Klingon Empire. The latter has been my go to deck for over a year – I love it!
I have a number of new bits of kit heading this way over the next few weeks for review.
The 1st to land will be the new K2 Union Suit and Royal Spraydeck from Immersion Research.
More landing soon.
Since my first year of university I’ve always wanted to get out to the Italian Alps. Unfortunately the creeking season out there is usually in May which just happens to be university exam time. Finally, leaving uni and getting a proper job has it perks (besides the pay cheque).
Italian Alps – May 2013 from Mark Mulrain on Vimeo.
Dave, Russell, Ben and me headed out earlier than most groups. The early trip combined with a huge snowpack for the year left us a little nervous that river levels would be too high and that we would miss out on the classic runs of the area. We all breathed a huge sigh of relief when we arrived to find everything on the high end of good. Perfect levels! Continue reading
Name: Callum Strong
Location: Scotland
Boats
I don’t know if you guys have heard but I am a Zet UK team Paddler and have a hoody which says so in big letters so people in the bar know I’m the real deal without me having to tell them, although I do anyway. As such I paddle a Zet Raptor, a totally sick creek boat which I was paddling even before they got cool. I suppose I am somewhat of a “trendsetter” so listen up to the rest of my kitlist folks, this will read like a kayaking version of Vogue. I should point out that my Raptor is yellow, the best colour and also the second fastest. The fastest Zets are actually blue ones. I paddled a blue one over the summer whilst on an expedition in Siberia but unfortunately they don’t show up nearly as well in photographs, so yellow is the colour to go for.
Name: Mark Mulrain
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Boats
Dragorossi 88 (big boat) – I wanted a boat that had the speed of a Zet Raptor and boofed a little easier like the Liquidlogic Stomper. The 88 seemed to do meet this criteria. I was blown away by how easily it punched water features and the speed it carried out from the bottom of a rapid. Continue reading
Name: Ben Johnston
Location: Carlisle, Cumbria, UK.
Kayak – Zeroattivo Orgasmo – fast boat, sharp edges, not best looking outfitting but super comfy and simple, not yet fully used only had 1 month (been on river 3 times). Continue reading
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