Trying out an epic V10 The internet connects the world…and occassionally can bring a highly infectious virus to your own house… I got infected with the surfski virus just three weeks ago by watching some great videos on youtube — sent to me by a kayak-crazy journalist from New York …he actually [...]
Thanks to the organizer Ed Zachowski from Qajaq USA for inviting me! In between my work to prepare my x-mas shop with 5000 items and closing down my ice-cream shops (…ahhh, and between some trip-preparations for New Zealand, too…) I headed for a quick 3-days trip to Delmarva/ USA as a special guest to […]
Kanumesse Nürnberg 2007 It was a great place to meet and to talk to plenty of kayaking buisiness people from all over the world! It was a real international event, I had interesting talks to people from Britain, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, France, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Czech, South Africa, USA and for sure […]
… Anglesey Sea Kayak symposium 2007…a helicopter was in the air to demonstrate sea rescue…a rainbow colored helicopter was playing on the water, too… pictures by Nico Middelkoop
Clas Hagelstam from Sipoon Kanoottiklub/ Finland/ near Helsinki invited me to teach a weekend at their club. They provided a nicely heated little pool at a service house, which just took two kayaks afloat. A perfect teaching site! My room was just in the same building, actually the office of the club. Clas […]
The Stockentreffen this year proved to be again the "TO BE" event in Sweden! Plenty of participants came to Stocken to share experience and "kayak talk". I had the pleasure to pick up Wendy Killoran and René Seindal from Kopenhagen, who are going to paddle around Sicily and Sardinia this winter. Good luck to both! […]
This year’s Isle of Man adventure week, organized by Keirron Tastagh, proved to be an adventure with the weather – it blew nicely all weekend, and even Monday after the main weekend, which was scheduled to be the day of the first attempt of breaking my circumnavigation record was blown into the […]
First time I was on the water again with my old paddling friend Wendy from last year’s Newfoundland trip! I made her relaxing in Greenlandic style… But she was excited to kiss a frog (fish…) soon!
Pavia likes Maligiaq’s Greenlandic seal claws necklace.. …me too… :-)) balance and flexibility – makes a perfect "Freya wannabe"… …next the balance board goes on the baseboard – and then we’ll try on your qajaq! …ohhhh, some practice already… But for getting points at [...]