Local Paddler Luke "Double air screw" Hopkins and a crew of pro paddlers, in a great site. Visit the instruction pages, the galleries and the riverskill section.
Marriann's Weblog We had the pleasure to meet her during our last trip to Piemonte. Now we can follow her paddling around the world, through her new site.
Think Liquid David Arnaud, paddler and photographer, launched a new site. News, photos and videos are the pages to browse first.
FWWR a site from Russia, a still "difficult" destination, but as you may see in the photos... a cold destination with thrilling whitewater.
Tip: If you run the mouse over the menu bar on the left, you can see the english version on the browser line below. Smart!!
Playboating Italia a site from Italy. Fresh news, reports and great photos from our neighbouring ww paradise.
Don't miss the Val Sesia 2004 Teva race report and photos of the race that traditionally gather, the best paddlers of the world.
In the News section you may also have a first look ot the new DragoRossi Mafia and Fish prototypes
More photos from that race in Red Eye's forthcoming site.
March 04:
Kayak News from Canada, a site that collect information about most of the kayaks in the market. Comparison tables and kayaker's reviews are very helpful, for those in the search of a new boat.
Raft.cz has collected information on rivers in the Balkans and links to other wab based river guides.
Wild Chickadee adventures, a site by Errin Evans, focused in kayaking and climbing for women, in B.C. Canada.
Jan 04:
David Manby is an old school kayaker, a pioneer of his time. We visited his site, for information on river Churu in Turkey. We found more than that, we found some river stories that I 'm sure you will like to read. Start from Dora Raparia.
Nov 03:
Meet Riviera Ratt. This is a must. Crazy people! Don't miss the songbook - I loved Born to roll!!
Eric Jackson launched a new paddling company and starts producing his own kayaks.
Oct 03:
Gene 17 Simon Westgarth's "new school" paddling trips. Our own trip report at "Piemonte Tales", featured in the site gives the thumbs up.
Mike-World.com a personal site, featuring some photos from paddling Greek rivers, like Upper Voidomatis and Meleopotamos
Aug03:
Lozer.com. A site that don't consider itself serious.
A Norway paddling guide, for...not so hot-shot paddlers! By R.Bown & C.Uni Go to www.guidebook.free-online.co.uk.
Boathouse Nepal: Andreas Sommer Team, goes on expedition in the himalayan range. A list of rivers and reports, for places like, Nepal, Pamir, Siberia, Tatjikistan.
HydroStadium company A report for Athens 2004 olympic whitewater stadium, from the project designer.
Kayak Kaos. Harris contribution to our web-search. An interesting article on Erymanthos, also posted in Playboating magazine, Jan 2000. Unfotrunately, not quite active site, lately.
Video downloads & Games
May 04:
Games
From time to time I like visiting Eddy Stuff and test my kayak reflexes in Eddy attack
March 04:
Feel like downloading small kayaking movies? BrainDead Productions is the site for you!
How about a trailer for an upcoming independent film? The White Album
Second law. Another upcoming movie's trailer. Watch or order a copy, at Kayak West.com
Jan 04: An interesting chat, over shoulder dislocation, from WetDawg's h2o forum.
Articles (Instuctional and more...)
May 04:
Focusing the Fear Positively by Mary DeRiemer, a
different approach in the chychological approach of running rapids.
Life by the Drop. Personal decisions and keeping rescue attempts safe. An article based on the tragic accident of Paul Zirkelbach, back in 2002. Written by Tim Kelley, from AWA archives.
Opinions: Everesting. Two different looks on Everest expeditions nowdays. From Outside online.
Exercises and stretching for the shoulders. Two articles from "Family Doctor.org", about excercising your shoulders, while recovering from an injury and reducing pain and another on stretching rules, by "my web md.com"
March 04:
For the greek speaking only, an interesting article for the use of GPS units, from Anavasi website.
In search of the Triple Crown an account on running three of North America's major gorges: Susitna, Alsek and Stikine. By Reggie Crist, taken from Mens Journal.
Living on the river with tips on self supporting multi day kayaking, from Kayak magazine on line, plus a review of 2003 "air" boats.
The Wave box is Wave Sport's new "device". An artificial wave machine in a private pool. Those rodeo junkies, prefaring a private playspot in the back yard, instead of a new jeep, better read the post in Xackers.net
We had already presented Rapid-air and Emergency air devices (see below). A more simple and inexpencive device is Quick air. Read more or order one, in Steep Creeks site.
An innovative rack to load your kayak on your bike, is now available, by Xtracycle.com. And because our team's biker, Konidis, have many times claimed that he would run Upper Lousios shuttle on his bike, if only he could load the kayak up...no more excuses.
Emergency air a propably useful device for the extreme paddler
For our photographers
March 04:Pentax Optio 43wr is a fully immersible, 4 megapixels, 2.8x optical zoom, digital camera, that fits in a PFD pocket! Read the review in DPreview.com.
Jan 04:A major boost to digital era, comes with the lounch of Canon 300D, first digital SLR in the price level around 1000$.
Web Diamonds Archive
Kajaktour.de site, posted trip reports from the rivers: 