Any other people rodeo/freestyle whitewater kayak in the summer?

JsNeagle

JsNeagle

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Whitewater kayaking rivals skiing as my all time favorite activities, and what's great is that melting snow and rain (which kill skiing), give life to kayaking, so I'm always entertained. Rodeo paddling keeps me creative, and the way your tricks follow the way your head and torso are going and also the edge control freestyle paddling reminds me a lot of freeskiing... Are there any other paddlers out there who see the connection between the two sports? The style, however, is quite different, it's hard to be steezy sitting in a kayak.

 
damn you jeff,

melting snow is bad,

rain is bad,

i'm crying.

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i never got into the playboating, but steep creekin' in my kayak is fuckn fun. i think the only thing better than that (but not as good as skiing) is rafting, and thats something i have to do for my job

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oh yeah, i love playboating. don't get to go it as often as i like but got up to ottawa river last summer for a week and that was amazing. one thing i really like about paddling, which gives it an edge over skiing, is that every time you go out you have to adapt your tricks to different features and water levels.

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ya there are some things in common with both sports but kayaking is almost like its own lifestyle. i work as a river guide and its just such a good time all summer

 
^ The Ottawa River is amazing... maybe my favorite run... steep creeking is a lot of fun, although i prefer technical drops to 30 footers and all that madness

 
^^^rafting is something I've never done. I could never bring myself to pay for a commercial trip when I could just run something in a kayak... I'd like to guide a raft with a few buddies though, that'd probably be fun... What kind of boats do you guys paddle? me = kingpin icon

 
yo man. i'm debating a whitewater trip to the Yukon for next summer.

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i saw these guys going off this wooden drop in to jump with whitewater kayaks on pbs one time, they were doing barrel rolls.

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i just got off the upper half of the grand canyon. sick stuff. i love my boat

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i just tried kayaking yesterday in the pool and which i have been trying to get a chance to try for a long time. i was able to get roll back up on like my 6th try, my friend was impressed with me learning fast!

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ive paddled the ottawa once already this year, and i watched a level six comp at the champlain rapids this past weekend...it was rad. ive also gone up to some rapids on the quebec side and played around. im really only just getting into kayaking and playboating, but its sooo much fun. and i do see the connection between it and freeskiing.

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I tried to get into it, but I sucked.

For some reason I never could roll when I was in a river. I could do it perfect in the lake every time, but I almost drowned a couple of times thanks to my sucking at rolling.

But I did play in the Atlantic off the coast of Maine once, that was amazing. Surfing in a kayak, on real (not stationary) waves............. It was great. Then I broke my leg and my knee screams if I tweak it that way to get into a boat............. end of my kayaking.

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I do it if i could afford a decent boat, anybody have an extra play boat laying around?

"Plus I saw Nick (Calskierx) throw the sickest Rodeo 7 off a natural hit this year on them. He did brake his full face helmet though".....Skimasterflex

 
just cliff jumping mainly... some water skiing when i get teh chance to go to lake cumberland and jetski too

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word. It's awesome how many people share the same interests in skiing communities. It seems like everyone who kayaks is also a skier or snowboarder.

It's a helluva lot harder to get your own unique style in kayaking. There's so much progression though and with all the new spud boats, new stuff is being invented constantly.

It's my second sport. I ski in the winter and kayak in the summer. that's all I do. Fuck baseball, I quit last year to kayak more.

It sucks how so many people are turned off by a bad experience or two. Kayaking is a lot harder to get good at I think because you need a few years to even start understanding the river. Then you start to pick up stuff because it's second nature.

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^Yeah. Kayaking, unlike skiing, is something you always have to go into giving your all. (i guess unless your a real nice paddler on a little class 3 or something, or actually i paddled the kennebec without a paddle or hand paddles last summer, but anyways) There's a much higher degree of consequence when you're running an intense drop than chilling in the park. Kayaking is amazing.

^whoever it was that wanted a boat, i can usually get newish wave sports pretty bangin cheap... pyranha too as long as the shop didn't discontinue them... if i get a new boat ill be selling my kingpin.

^What was the level on the Ottawa when you were there. Was horseshoe good?/garb?... or was is massive enough for bus eater and a fluffy baby face? bahhh

 
Oh yea, I may be selling a LL Skip depending on my growth over the winter.

Kayaking is one of those things you have to go into giving your all or you wont have fun. If you start the day with your mind somewhere else, you'll either get it on track or something bad will happen that will put you on track. People who are absent minded are not a great fit, because it only takes a second or one botched stroke to get you fucked in more technical water.

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playboating is the shit...there is nothing that reminds you of mother nature's power like you messing up and being instantly flipped...

i like waves the best, though creekin is still fun

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i was just at champlain, its not too bad there, but the water level is steadily declining. but the greyhound buseater is going off in two weekends time...the big cajones comp...should be nuts. i dunno if i can make it out to watch though.

-Joel

~Phunkin Phatt Phreerider~
Capital City Rider, DFP
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^the buseater wave is crazy. I was at the Ottawa a couple summers ago and I could decent throw ends in Phil's Hole... that's pretty much the biggest hole i want to playboat in... i guess waves are a different story but buseater is all crashy and hole-like anyways

 
oh, one time i was paddling with Eric Jackson (former world champ/best paddler in the world in my opinion), and he was linking ends in a Wavesport Y on Phil's... playboating in creek boats is the new hotness.

 
Dude creekin is where its at. I would take a clean 350 feet per mile run over any play hole. West Virginia is the only place within a decent drive around here and i think i have boated all the IV+ big water runs and a good amount of creeks. New York has some of my favorite runs though, like the Raquette and the Beaver. Im goin to Montana state this fall for school which is where TGR bases its operations. Can't wait to get into more of those steep western creeks. O yea has anybody here known/been on the river with anyone that died boatin. I had an kinda friend drown in november on the green narrows and it definatly made me question things. Everyone should be a member of American whitewater too, www.americanwhitewater.org and check out the river database here http://www.americanwhitewater.org/rivers

 
How much for your boat's, i mean if you get a new one or whatever someone give me a price. IM 5'10 140 pound's.

"Plus I saw Nick (Calskierx) throw the sickest Rodeo 7 off a natural hit this year on them. He did brake his full face helmet though".....Skimasterflex

 
kayaking in great, i've done mostly longboat stuff for the last few years, but this year i'm gonna do my raft guide training on the Black River, its a sick river in NY

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ahhh stop rafting the black and start playing at rt.3 and hole brothers... and yeah creeking is sweet, i just don't get much of a chance to do it... when there's a play wave 10 mins from your house it's hard to say no

 
I just got back from the penobscot this weekend. they output was pumping a good 3320 cf/m and we rode it all the way down. sweet times

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