Wednesday, 17 October 2018 10:03 | Written by Rob Mousley
As the avalanche of water broke over him, smashing him off his surfski, Killian Marzin felt an agonizing pain shoot through his shoulder. He knew he was badly hurt – and the next wave in the set was roaring in towards him…
Tuesday, 16 October 2018 10:29 | Written by Rob Mousley
“All I remember is that it felt like being hit by a truck,” said Andy Wheatley. “The crunch was pretty impressive!” Flung violently off his surfski and into the water, Wheatley’s “first thought was to get back on and go!”
Thursday, 11 October 2018 14:00 | Written by Rob Mousley
In a desperate all-out, red-lining sprint, the two paddlers put everything they had into the last 300m to the finish. 50m to go and Noé Pelizza surged forward, …but the nose of his black surfski ramped up the back of the next wave and he slowed – just as Esteban…
Monday, 01 October 2018 08:56 | Written by EBorgnes
[Editor: Knysna Racing Kayaks released the Lee McGregor-designed Classic and Rhythm surfskis in 2017. Contributor and passionate surfski paddler Erik Borgnes has been paddling both them; here's what he thinks of these "short" boats...]
Thursday, 27 September 2018 12:12 | Written by Rob Mousley
With eight km to go, Sean Rice decided to accelerate. “There were three of us at that point and I felt I could do a burn to get rid of one of them,” he said. To his surprise, both Cory Hill and Gordan Harbrecht dropped back. But the race wasn’t…
Monday, 24 September 2018 20:40 | Written by Rob Mousley
Downwind fiend and avid surfski videographer Sharon Armstrong does it again - and produces a video that is a Master Class in how to get through monster surf. Watch and learn!
Tuesday, 18 September 2018 17:45 | Written by Rob Mousley
…and most of the world’s best surfski paddlers, both men and women, are in Ireland to take part. Here’s what you need to know about the world’s richest surfski race.
Monday, 03 September 2018 15:42 | Written by Sune Wendelboe
[Editor: Sune Wendleboe (engineer, photographer extrarordinaire and mad keen surfski paddler) has owned no fewer than 27 surfskis in the last few years. He recently took delivery of an Epic V11 Elite and in this article shares his impressions of the sleek black paddlling machine...]
Monday, 03 September 2018 11:46 | Written by Rob Mousley
Sam Mayhew might have left it too late in the race to try to catch the eventual winner, Aussie Sam Djoden, but he did experience a proper adrenalin spike when a breaching orca landed right next to him… The 2018 Zest Brokers Poor Knights Crossing lived up to the paddlers’…
Tuesday, 28 August 2018 13:53 | Written by Rob Mousley
Yeeeeeha! As I accelerated down yet another small run, I thought, ‘I can definitely handle this boat’…” In fact, in the conditions I was paddling in, the DNA gave me a taste of what it feels like to be an elite paddler…
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