Tuesday, 08 June 2010 21:50
Written by David H. Johnston
Check out this amazing big water sea kayak video that was just posted to the old YouTube by MrSpikekayak. He is the lead designer for Necky Kayaks, Ocean Kayak and Old Town Canoe/Kayak and runs the always interesting blog, Kayak Noise.
Wednesday, 14 April 2010 22:11
Written by David H. Johnston
You might be interested in a new Greenland Kayak rolling DVD shipping next month. Simplifying the Roll with Helen Wilson is described as, "A multi-level guide to learning, troubleshooting and progressing through an ancient Greenland technique."
Monday, 05 April 2010 21:58
Written by David H. Johnston
Take a look at this absolutely ridiculous kayak video. I have no idea what the guys on shore are saying but I'm 100% positive I have seen the same look on the faces of people watching us paddle.
This humble film is about a friend of mine named Michael and his daily ritual to find his natural self through surfing.
The director, Sean Mullens posted an interesting comment over on the video site, “One interesting fact is that the place where we filmed him entering the water was the exact location he broke his neck and became disabled 30 years ago. He told me that time and time again he finds himself at that spot on earth without intention of being there...it is one of his favorite places to be.”
Friday, 05 February 2010 10:58
Written by David H. Johnston
Since January 26, the kayak community has been buzzing about the viral video with kayak fishing pro Drew Gregory getting attacked by a goose. It’s really funny and I’m 100% positive that I would have reacted in the same way if I was in the same situation.
Since the video was posted it has gone viral outside the paddling community with over a 100,000 views on YouTube. Somehow the link was passed along to the producers of the Jay Leno Show and it’s scheduled to be highlighted tonight (February 5th).
The popularly of kayak fishing over the past 2-3 years has been growing at a tremendous rate and some feel that it won’t take much for it to become a common method of fishing (compared to using a powerboat). Could this be the perfect exposure that kayak fishing needs to go mainstream? I hope so.
Thursday, 07 January 2010 15:48
Written by David H. Johnston
Bomber Gear released a very nice instructional video of how to replace a torn neck gasket yourself. It really isn’t very difficult and like many other projects, the first time always takes the longest. After replacing several of my own, I got it down to a fine science.
$15 for the gasket and $5-6 for glue sure beats the $60 repair cost of my local outdoor shop.
Wednesday, 11 November 2009 22:51
Written by David H. Johnston
Surfing around on youtube I stumbled into the ultra geeky world of kayak manufactures videos. Below is a collection of different videos that various manufactures have put together highlighting their skeg or rudder systems.
I thought it was interesting that with so many different designs out there each video is clearly demonstrating that their particular design is vastly superior to everything out there on the market.