Team Dirt Clod

Since I’ve been linking to all the Bomb Flow videos, here is #4… British Columbia. (some adult language)

How cool is this? A surfboard with embedded LED lights. Wonder how I could do that with a kayak for not-so-full-moon runs?

Only one video has particularly caught my eye this week. The new Bomb Flow (Episode 3) came out a couple of weeks ago and I finally sat down and watched it this morning. Good stuff. Interesting music choices, some great video of some steep stuff in Cali. Guess we need to mount up a road trip and go see Tony.

This next weekend, October 2nd at Noon there will be a World Kayak “Hometown Throwdown” in Yorkville, IL on the new playpark built there. Sounds like there will be a boatercross amongst other entertaining events.

More info can be had here

Gabe wrote up a nice summary of our Ocoee trip here.

We didn’t shoot enough video to warrant a highlight reel from this trip alone, but I’ll incorporate into an upcoming video I should have ready this fall.

-ej

Have to say, I’m pretty excited about a couple of new Jackson Kayak designs that are in the pipeline.  I’ve long felt that they’ve ignored the “river running” market, that the Fun was really more of a playboat, and the Hero was more of a creeker.  While they might have tried to market them to the river running segment, I don’t believe they did a good job of actually serving that segment.

That is about to change with the pending “Fun Runner” which looks like a stretched out Fun for those who are still looking to squirt and play a bit in their river runner, and the Zen which looks more full on river runner.

I think this is excellent and they’ll make good instructional boats (for students and instructors alike)

From JK’s site:

Fun Runner
Zen

And some better pictures from “In Between Swims”

here, here and finally here.