Paddles
Normally, this kind of thing would be saved for a Wipeout Wednesday roundup, but since the end of the year is upon us… Enjoy.
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In the last couple of months, we’ve seen some incredible GoPro footage (remember last week’s pogo stick video?). While this one is admittedly an ad, the footage is pretty cool and it was begging to be shared.
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Sean Fitzgibbon was born without a fibula in his right leg–a major hindrance considering the fibula is responsible, with the help of the tibia, for connecting your knee to your anklebones. At age 3, Fitzgibbon’s right leg was amputated, but this didn’t stop his parents from encouraging his love for… Read the rest
A Chinese City Games kayak race turned bloody on Sunday after a paddle-waving brawl broke out between two teams, sending one athlete to the hospital.
It all started when the Guangzhou team intentionally rammed their kayak into that of the Nanchang team, the hosts of the Games, who then retaliated—naturally—by… Read the rest
This is pretty incredible footage. Just to put this in perspective, blue whales are the largest animals in the world—bigger than any dinosaurs. Their hearts are about the same size as a compact car.… Read the rest
The video is, admittedly, on the cheesier side—watch it without sound if you don’t want the dramatic soundtrack. But what Jesse Coombs, 40, did was pretty incredible.
While Coombs plunged the 96 feet down the remote Abiqua Falls in Oregonin April, the video is only making the media rounds now.… Read the rest
Dad, Kevin, takes 9-year-old son, Hunter, on a fishing trip by kayak off the coast of Gavelston, Texas. Dad accidentally hooks seven-foot-long black tip shark and spends about an hour attempting to keep the shark hooked and positioned just right so that son Hunter can get a video of the… Read the rest
An open water channel crossing of the Hawaii Islands will always make for good cinema. And Destination 3 Degrees… Read the rest, a film by Chris Aguilar and Soul Surf Media Productions, does not disappoint. Though hardly a triumph of movie-making, the film pulls together the key components of a complex recipe
Henry Dorfman, a 62-year-old paddler, decided he would kayak all five of the Great Lakes in five day’s time in order to raise public awareness about the joys of kayaking and, also, to cross the item off of his “bucket list.” According to the article about Dorfman published in the … Read the rest
Last weekend, paddlers of all kinds, from all locales, gathered on Maui’s North Shore for the third annual OluKai Ho’olaule’a. The event is a celebration of the ocean–and ocean culture. The two-day event offers an elite eight-mile SUP and one-man outrigger canoe (OC1) race, as well as a three-mile, un-timed … Read the rest
Watch paddlers Sam Freihofer and Todd Wells drop the 82 feet of Metlkao Falls on Oregon’s Eagle Creek. Though this is the tallest attempted drop by two-man kayak, it doesn’t officially beat out the record set by Anton Immler and Steve Fisher (which was a 70 foot plunge) because in… Read the rest
At this year’s SUP for a Pup one-day event, held near the Kaenon Polarized headquarters in Newport Beach, CA., approximately $11,000 was raised for the local non-profit animal rescue, A Wish for Animals (AWFA), and 15 dogs were adopted.
Three years ago, Kaenon Polarized Sports Marketing Director Chris Wyman started… Read the rest
The last thing my buddy expected to find while checking out surfboards on Portland’s Craigslist yesterday was an 11-foot aluminum-skinned foam beast with a two-stroke gas motor. Was this a one-of-a-kind invention or one of many? Who would produce something like this? Having nothing better to do, we decided to… Read the rest
On April 1st, Sarah Outen, the only woman to have ever rowed the Indian Ocean solo, will embark on another unaccompanied journey, one that’s being called the most difficult and dangerous adventure that’s ever been taken on by a female. The journey will take her from London to London–20,000 miles–across… Read the rest
Co-workers Tom Pickles and Sarah Harrington were recently kayaking in Lake Windermere, England’s largest lake, when, according to their statement, something “the size of three cars” passed by. Pickles snapped this shot of the creature with his cell phone camera before the pair “paddled back to shore right away.”
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