One thing having a lot of time on the water (or in the water) does for you is gives you the chance to experiment. Time and time again I’ve heard very skilled kayakers say they began by just “trying stuff”. Something I’ve certainly picked up on. Last night at the pool after time spent working through all the “skills” work I was feeling a bit rebellious. Yes, we can still feel rebellious in our 40′s if we like! When I get feeling kayak rebellion, I tend to try something really stupid. So, can I hand roll with my splits? (is that a hand roll then?) Sure. . . Ok, what if I do a stick roll while holding onto both my splits in the other hand? Ok. So, now I should run over and grab my storm. . Now, how do I roll with this mess?? Which leads into the Yard Sale Roll. I mean, what choice do you have!? On a white water boat there’s nowhere to stow your other paddles. . . so roll with everything you got! Here’s The Clip (use your back button to return here) You can also just go to the video page under fun rolls.

And now for something completely different. In those late sleepless nights of yours do you ever end up wondering what happens when a clinical social worker makes a documentary of the Watertribe Ultimate Challenge?? Yeah, it’s been keeping me up at night too! Weird isn’t it!? So here’s the solution; First we need to read more. So a trip over to Dawn’s blog is in order. I can imagine the work producer Jenning Gee put into this and she deserves some attention for it. Next we can run over to the WaterTribe Store and buy the video. The Ultimate Florida Challenge 2006 DVD is just $24.95 and will certainly make a few dark, lonely, winter nights go by a bit faster.

Yikes! Thursday all ready? Arggg. Well, coming up I have a promised closer look at the new Reed Cag I received a couple weeks back. And in a related post, a talk about emergency hatch covers. Then we’ve got a look at an innovative new kayak design coming out of Canada, and the answer to this question; “What does the “$400 million dollar paddling industry” really mean?” and more. . . So much stuff and only one tiny little blog. . . Have a great day! Really. Someone should. Why not you!??