Surfski Training – Be Smart About It When it comes to surfski racing and paddling the goal for most of us is very simple, how do I go faster in my surfski when I know that I can’t increase the amount of time I spend on the water without risking coming home to find my […]
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TC Waterman 2012: Traverse City’s First Ever Surfski Race
TC Waterman 2012 – A Raging Success It all started with a voicemail from TC Waterman race director Todd Mackey last Sunday afternoon. Todd heard the news that the surfski paddlers had become innocent victims of Chicago politics when the City of Chicago shut down the entire beach front for the weekend and effectively canceled […]
Chicago Shoreline Surfski Race: The Race that Wasn’t
Chicago Shoreline Surfski Race: Getting Psyched Up or Out, I’m Not Quite Sure In order to really write about the Chicago Shoreline Marathon for 2012, I need to start with the full week leading up to the race. I started obsessively checking weather/wind forecasts at least a week before the race. By mid week it was […]
Kensington Metro Park Kayak Race: An Intense Battle
Kensington Metro Park Kayak Race A few weeks ago I was reading the Midwest Performance Paddlers Yahoo News Group e-mail and noticed a 2nd annual race that was being organized in Milford (Detroit Metro area) at Kensington Metro Park. I immediately thought this would be a great opportunity to go do a race and start […]
Downwind Paddling Technique: The Learning Curve is Worth It!
Downwind Paddling Technique Disclaimer: I don’t have downwind experience in the big ocean conditions, what I write about below is based on experience primarily in Grand Traverse Bay of Lake Michigan and occasionally on open Lake Michigan. Six foot swell is probably the largest conditions I have seen. I do suspect that the fundamentals hold […]
