Welcome to Movie Monday 27 August 2018 at Unsponsored. We have a carefully selected bunch of video edits for you to check out.
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Welcome to Movie Monday 20 August 2018 at Unsponsored. We’ve hopefully found a selection of whitewater edits that will help get you through your Monday.
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Welcome to Social Media Saturday – 14 July 2018. A little later than usual but here none the less.
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R3 France have recently posted the video below showing one of their training sessions that helps paddlers who end up swimming to deal with a sieve barrier.
It is well worth a watch.
Painspotting: Choose Kayaking has to be one of the best things I have seen this year. Very nicely done.
It’s a Christmas Day Movie Monday special at Unsponsored HQ. Welcome to Movie Monday 25 December 2017.
It’s a big one with over 20 edits for you to get stuck into.
Merry Christmas!
I have just finished watching the full version of Chasing Niagara (just over 1 hrs worth of action). It has been available for a while via iTunes at a cost. However it is currently available to watch for free on Red Bull TV.
CHASING NIAGARA follows Rafa Ortiz, a celebrated pioneer of big waterfall kayaking, as he pushes himself to the limit and redefines his sport by daring to dream the impossible – successfully descending Niagara Falls. To prepare for this highly dangerous drop, Ortiz enlists a team of fellow professional kayakers, including Rush Sturges, Evan Garcia, and Tyler Bradt, to help him train and document the process. As they take on lightning fast rapids and massive waterfalls in exotic locales, they soon find that what started as one man’s epic quest, evolves into an intense three-year journey of self-discovery and friendship that forces them to redefine their own definitions of bravery, purpose, and ambition.
Huge waterfalls, near death experiences all captured in such a way that makes Chasing Niagara appealing to both paddlers and non-paddlers. In terms of the way in which Chasing Niagara has been put together and the action within it, it is probably the best kayak related video I have seen.
Jake shows us just what to do if you end up in the swimming in whitewater without your craft of choice.
Whitewater kayakers have a saying, ‘We’re all between swims’. Whether you’re a whitewater paddler or not, everybody should know what to do if you end up in a fast moving river.
After 3.5 years of kayaking, the inevitable happened. On Sunday I found myself a little bit stuck: I was in a weir.
The day had not being going very well for me; we had headed to the Kent in the Lake District with one car. We were 4 quite experienced paddlers, and although none of us had done the Kent at the high-medium it was rising to, there was little cause for concern. After taking my first swim of 2016 on S-Bend (embarrassing, but meatier than I recall), I wasn’t the happiest of paddlers but reluctantly got back in my boat.
I haven’t been totally happy paddling for some time, and that was rearing it’s ugly head once more. In our circle of kayaking friends we call it The Fear. It’s paralysing, frustrating, illogical and embarrassing. It has sucked the joy out of so many rivers since I had my first bite of it in Scotland last Easter, and it’s iron grip is incredibly hard to shake.
Good friend of Unsponsored, Sam Ellis hit the River Swale a couple of days ago. Levels were good as were the lines.
The River Swale sits within Swaledale in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. It is an awesome river in stunning surroundings. When it goes it has to be one of the best waterfall runs in the UK. So here we have it Sam Ellis – River Swale Dec 15. Lots of drops and a swim along the way.
This one is well worth a watch to the very end.
Sometimes things just don’t go the way you want them to. Five years worth of beaterings.
We are all in between swims.
Raven Fork ran the other day and with 730 feet per mile comes a whole lot of class 5 and the sketch involved in it.
With a good crew and the right equipment this risk can be mitigated but it still doesn’t remove the chances of something happening.
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