We realize that to be a truely sick kayak website and show you how awesome we really are, we need to show you some video. Below are several video clips. Watch them. Be impressed.
Big Timber POV
Sometime around the turn of the century, photos, videos, and reports of an epic creek begin floating out of Montana's Crazy Mountains. I first ran Big Timber in 2002 on an epic trip with Gordon Dalton, Josh Sandage, and Harris Haynie, and it immediately earned a place on my list of favorite creeks and places to go back to. After freestyle team trials this year in Missoula, I finally got the chance to head back there with Clay Wright and Shane Groves. We had a long, great day on the river, and I shot a lot of head cam footage. Hope you like it, and I promise as soon as things settle down for me, I'll write up an update for the summer's travels.
Life on the road has been busy, packed full of paddling. I'll get around to doing a full update sometime soon, but in the mean time, enjoy this video from the Glenwood wave from a couple weeks ago.... It's taken this long to find somewhere to sit long enough to upload it.
March was a busy month for me- lots of good paddling to choose from. I got to spend some quality play time getting the Molan dailed in. What can I say other than the boat rips? I've figured out more paddling the boat for the past month than in the previous two years combined. The 2010 Burn has been treating me well too. Enjoy the video.
Here's a little video I put together with some footage from Colorado of the Blackfly in action. Has some good freestyle canoein' music too. I'm pretty pleased with how the boat handles, and I've already got some ideas of how to make it better.
The first in what may become a series of instructional videos, "How to Not Suck at Kayaking." I wanted to do some super-basic level instructional videos rather than show you how to do the latest, coolest trick that you'll never do. This one covers basic hole surfing, with an emphasis on common mistakes. I hope someone finds it useful, and I'm open to suggestions for future video topics. I feel like I should include a disclaimer: Kayaking is inherently dangerous and you may be maimed or beaten up or have your lunch money taken. Kayaking may ruin your life. But seriously, be smart about where you kayak, and use your own judgment.
At the beginning of the week, I'd never heard of "tilt-shift." After seeing a video on Vimeo that made everything look tiny, I got inspired, read up on how to do the effect in post, and by the time I got to the river that afternoon, I had amput a dozen shots planned out in my head. The editing was a lot of work (but a lot less work than building a miniature Holtwood), and the final result is pretty good. See what you think.
Pennsylvania has been getting hit pretty regularly for the past few weeks with "winter mix," a lovely little combination of snow, sleet, and rain. The upside of that is we've had pretty good water for the past month or so. I've been shooting a good bit of footage, and finally got around to putting it together. My "Winter Mix" is a combination of creeking in the Delaware Water Gap and playboating on the Susquehanna at Holtwood and Chickies Hole. It's been cold, but good fun.
