http://www.kayakquixotica.com Tilting At Waves Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:09:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/08/19/sea-kayak-with-gordon-brown-v2/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/08/19/sea-kayak-with-gordon-brown-v2/#comments Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:19:42 +0000 derrick http://www.kayakquixotica.com/?p=8814 As with my review of the first edition of Sea Kayak With Gordon Brown, let me cut to the chase here.  Volume 2 includes a new trip, a bit of a history lesson, and lots of new skill work in real world conditions. V2 is a fun, tight presentation that will add to your skill [...]]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2011/08/19/sea-kayak-with-gordon-brown-v2/feed/ 6 http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2009/10/20/gordon-lives/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2009/10/20/gordon-lives/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:06:43 +0000 derrick http://www.kayakquixotica.com/?p=5373 With Gordon you will learn how to kayak, not how to talk about learning to kayak. There is nothing that personally drives me more crazy than a coach who talks strokes into millimeters and sets inflexible body and hand positions as laws. This is where Gordon’s years of experience come in. He simply does things. Whatever it is he’s demonstrating is so smooth, so hardwired that you imagine he could be reading Jane Austen with one eye, checking his Iphone with the other and it would have no effect on his demonstration.]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2009/10/20/gordon-lives/feed/ 10 http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2009/09/28/alien-tome/ http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2009/09/28/alien-tome/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:23:46 +0000 derrick http://www.kayakquixotica.com/?p=5224 Just a few words seem to tie all my recent and future days together. Each sub-set of ideas fly around them like ribbons around a maypole. The children dancing beyond them I fear represent a sanity long gone. Working backwards through the cloud to the foundation I'm left with words that in the light of day have little in common. Yet, in the fog and muddle of daily existence they meld and become one. Wisconsin. Kayak. Alien. Scotland. Monster. Muir. River. Wales, Nature. One in all the same.]]> http://www.kayakquixotica.com/2009/09/28/alien-tome/feed/ 0