In this podcast we catch up with Oscar to get a front row view of the racing at the ICF World Surfski Championships in Hong Kong (check out the link for great live footage) and the infamous Doctor downwind race in Perth, Australia. This is a relatively short podcast at just over 30 minutes, but […]
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Nelo 550 Review: Quick, Nimble, Pure Flow
Nelo 55o Review I’d like to start this review by first saying that we all have our strengths, and I don’t consider one of mine to be boat reviews covering all of the detailed engineering nuance of hull design. I also don’t have any real flat water analysis data on how the 550 compares against […]
PPP Episode 21: Gorge Downwind Champs with Carter Johnson
2018 Gorge Downwind Champs Registration Opens Nov 1st In today’s podcast we welcome back Carter Johnson, the affable and infamous creator and director of the Gorge Downwind Champs. In this casual chat we recap highlights from the 2017 Gorge Festival and discuss lessons learned and improvement plans for the 2018 event. If you’ve been […]
PPP Episode 20: A Journey to the Top with Austin Kieffer
In this podcast I get a chance to chat for the first time with the great American surfski champion Austin Kieffer. In just 5 short years, Austin has gone from paddling a surfski for the first time, to battling it out for podium finishes with the greatest paddlers in the world. He is now a force […]
Improving Mental Focus for Better Downwind Paddling
The Challenge of Coming Up with Original Ideas At least once a year I try to write a new post on downwind paddling, aka the surfing part of surfski. As I’ve now been writing for over five years, it is getting harder to come up with unique and beneficial ways of describing how to […]
