Locals Who Like Us As river access gets stricter and paddlers get treated more like criminals, nothing makes you feel more welcome on a river than a wave from a local landowner (unless it’s with a shotgun).
CARTWHEELS
Former slalom world champion Norbert Sattler of Austria did what were likely the first intentional cartwheels in Sattler’s Hole (beside Phil’s) on the Ottawa River in 1977 in a four-metre slalom boat. Carthwheeling then entered a period of dormancy during which time it was practiced only by squirt boaters. The cartwheeling renaissance occurred at Hell Hole on the Ocoee River leading up to the Worlds in 1993. Shane Benedict, Bob McDonough and Mark Lyle practiced linking single enders while staying in the hole paddling in the Pirouette S and Dagger RPM prototypes. Eric Jackson blew into town the week of the competition, perfected the cartwheel and the splitwheel and went on to win what were the first World Championships.
Seal Launch Part tobogganing, part cliff jumping, seal launching is the most fun you can have before you learn how to paddle.
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RAPID
PETER FARR
CUTTING OPEN BOATS DOWN TO SIZE AMERICAN WHITEWATER
For more than 50 years American Whitewater has been sticking a diplomatic middle finger in the faces of those who would dam, divert and pollute the United State’s rivers. The national non-profit organization gives a collective voice to the thousands of individual members and hundreds of affiliate clubs across the States.
Eric Jackson, 1983. ENDERS
These days, every weekender is throwing aerial whatevers, but nothing says “I’m old school” quite like an ender.
In 1995 Mark Scriver wanted a shorter open canoe for quicker freestyle moves and better boofs. He cut his 11-foot Ocoee down to 10 feet and went to the World Freestyle Championships in Germany to find that eventual winner Uwe Fisher had made the same modifications to his boat.
PAUL MASON
AMERICAN WHITEWATER
SCOTT MACGREGOR
ROBERT FAUBERT
HOMEMADE
FOAM VISORS Not cool, but less trouble than having your nose amputated on account of malignant melanomas.
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