kayak

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

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

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

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

I know, I know, we watched kayak carnage last week. But this is snow kayaking. Thanks to the local forecast, all I can think about is the impending “SNOWPOCALYPSE! PANIC!! 2011 Edition.” So here are some … Read the restvideos of people sledding in kayaks and wiping out.
From Brian: (The guy in

Though kayak carnage doesn’t appear to be the goriest of the wipeout genres, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt.
From Paul: (Kerplunk.)
From Jen: (It just sort of drops her.)
From Jim: (This guy’s trying to fight it. Flip to :24 to watch him struggle and fail.)… Read the rest

Veteran kayaker Hendri Coetzee, 35, is presumed dead after being attacked and pulled from his kayak by a crocodile on the Lukuga River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Coetzee was leading the Eddie Bauer-sponsored First Ascent kayak team; a partnership that was formed based on Coetzee’s experience within… Read the rest

This Sunday, a woman went kayaking in the waters of Big Pine Key in Florida. The 45-year-old woman was paddling in a two-person kayak, most likely minding her own business, when, according to the Coast Guard, a barracuda jumped into her kayak, bit her in the chest and dove back… Read the rest

Join the “National Sucking at Kayaking” team! And show off your signature lame-ass moves.
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This weekend in Rock Island, Illinois, participants in about 1,200 canoes and kayaks linked hands and paddles together for 30 seconds in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the largest collective canoe and kayak raft. The standing record was set in 2008 in New York.
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Apparently if you falsely claim to be stranded at sea you will be sentenced to prison. That’s the verdict for a California man who repeatedly made this claim and was sentenced Monday in San Jose to 30 months in federal prison as a result.
Prosecutors say 53-year-old Kurtis Thorsted broadcast… Read the rest

If you’re 21 or older and in Portland June 17th join Alder Creek Kayak & Canoe as they host whitewater adventure kayaking phenoms Jesse Coombs and Ben Stookesberry at the film premier of Hotel Charley V: First Descent, fresh from this year’s Telluride Mountain Film Fest.… Read the rest
Watch three ground breaking

For those facing a life-threatening disease such as cancer, the opportunity to let go and tumble through whitewater in a kayak can be a hugely rewarding, life-enhancing experience. This is the principal upon which the nonprofit organization First Descents is based–”It is our hope that we can improve the lives… Read the rest

The 2010 Teva Mountain Games (TMG) are finally here! The weekend of June 3 – 6 some 2,000 athletes and 40,000 spectators are expected to descend on the Rocky Mountain town of Vail, Colorado for four days of mountain adventure sports, art and entertainment.
The 9th annual Teva Mountain Games… Read the rest