In November of 2017 several friends and I headed down to San Luis Potosi, Mexico to forget about winter and live the good-life for a while. It was my 10th time traveling to the region to paddle over the previous 13 years, but the warm water, clean waterfalls, and awesome food in San Luis Potosi …
Monthly Archive: January 2018
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Outfitting Your Pyranha Kayak
If you don’t put a bit of work into outfitting your kayak, you’re never going to get the level of performance that you deserve out of it. It doesn’t matter if you are getting on moving water for the first time or if you are a whitewater veteran charging down tight, technical rapids; making sure …
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Jan
Jonas Le Morvan / Nicolas Caussanel 2017 Showreel [Français]
2017 s’achève après avoir célébré dignement la nouvelle année il est temps de se retourner une dernière fois sur ce que je vais qualifier de ma plus belle année de kayak jusqu’à présent. Cette saison fut pour moi la plus riche en matière de voyage 10 Pays 3 continents une année qui commence sur la …
10
Jan
Jonas Le Morvan / Nicolas Caussanel 2017 Showreel [English]
2017 is over now, so after some New Year celebrations, it’s time to have a look back on what has been my best year of kayaking so far! This season was the richest I’ve had in terms of travelling, starting the year on the Kaituna in New-Zealand and ending it in Tasmania on some insane …
04
Jan
Pyranha Ripper: Initial Thoughts
This boat has literally changed the way I look at the river. To have the ability to dip the stern and either get vertical, or do a quick pivot turn, has transformed the river into an entirely different playground; the Ripper‘s design takes on the #FastIsFun ethos of the 9R, with the lower stern rocker …
03
Jan
“When the going gets tough, the tough get going”
“When the going gets tough, the tough get going”; whilst this is often merely a clichéd, pretentious antimetabole that is used to ill-effect to motivate people of larger and softer proportions to stay on the treadmill for a few minutes longer, it is also what I wrote down in my journal during my last trip, …