LL Contest Videos VOLUME 5 9/22

So the videos keep coming. I am trying to keep up. Trying to put them all up but I can convert them. I am wallowing in videos but the best are getting up there and a few aren't but I will have them at the fest. Woody and I are working on it. Deciding. We understand that this is paddling livelyhood. We know that your creeking, playboating futures may rely on this decision. We are taking it very seriously. Here are a few more that we found entertaining.


Andy Hill a young ripper from the north land sent this in. I don't think he has been paddling very long at all and look at what he is doing. Can't wait to see what he is doing in a few more years. Nicely done.
Big Fish Video, Click This


Rumours is a creeking vid with lots of good footage. Its one of the many awesome creeking vids this year. What the hell are we going to do this year in the creeking category.
Rumours Video, Click This


Will brought out the stage props early in this video. Mostly filmed on one location gotta respect that. Isn't trying to blow us away with location just paddle illustration.
Will Video, Click This
check them out.
Shane

New Team Paddler on the Cheoah!

Here is the link. You are not going to believe it.
You will never believe who it is.
LL's New Team Paddler

More Vids For the LL Video Contest

The Contest is heating up. There are now quite a few entries. If you entered but your video isn't up here I will do my best. I am putting up the best videos and the ones that are in quicktime. It is a little bit of a mission to convert them. Check them all out and let me know what you think. Woody and I have the final say on who wins but we will take some voting into consideration. Its not hard to tell who is seeding the vote. You know who you are. I like it. Makes it fun all around.
Great videos everybody.


These guys put in a video last year and won the creeking segment of this contest and they are trying to get the top honors.
Another very good entry this year. We will just have to wait to see how they do.
Montana Video, Click This!


Between swims is a great flick. Nice shots and as the title says a couple swims.
Between Swims, Click This!


Nice one team class 10. Remember that time?
Team Class 10, Click This!


This is a very high end video. Very nice footage and very well put together. Super clean, super slick.
River Pigs, Click This!


A little stab at us for not representing up in the Northwest enough. Nice video also. This is getting harder by the video.
Northwest Invitation, Click This!


Brendan Garvey stopped by and dropped off a video. Its a really nice mix of footage from a few different years. Including some recent tough lines and nice playboating.
Brendan Garvey, Click This!


Again keep checking all the vids and sending in your votes for the winners in the 4 categories.
Overall
Creeking
Playboating
Humour
LL Forum Click This!
Later
Shane

More Liquidlogic Video Contest Entrants

The past week I probably recieved 20 new videos. Here are more of those entries. I think you will like all of these. They range all around 10mbs so if you are a slow hook up don't do it. Some movies made load completely before they play be patient.

The first video is from Quebec and this guy rips. He is a C-1 paddler that is really out there doing the latest stuff but with a single blade. Check it out.
Guillaume The Canadian, Click Here!


Here is a video of a awesome young paddler, Chan Jones. Looks like he caught some good water this year. Very well edited and put together video.
Chan Jones Video, Click Here!


What would an LL video contest be without a Foam boat video. This time he is running the $#!@%^%$&$@!^%$*&).!
Foamie Video, Click Here!


Gus for Bubba is a sweet creeking video shot in the Southeast and in Colorado. Another tightly edited piece.
Gus For Bubba, Click Here!


Will sent this video in from Afghanistan. Which I beleive was shot in Tajikistan and I am sure I mispelled both of these.
Kind of a scary video and the whole thing just brings up more paddling hazards like automatic weapon fire and is that a throw bag they are throwing at you.
Kayakistan Video, Click Here!


Last but not least the Avid Kayaker. I have to admit I was a little worried when this first popped on the screen but I ended up laughing my ass off. It is a sweet video with awesome us of alternative water sources.
Avid Kayaker Video, Click Here!



You all can have a big impact on who wins this video. Woody and I are deciding on the winners this week and would love your input. Put you vote in on the forum. I will put up a discussion topic.
Shane
Liquidlogic Forum, Click Here!

A Few Contenders for the LL Ultimate Hook Up Video Contest!

The first one is super creative and very well put together. Not a paddling video but fun to watch.
Searching For Water, Click Here!


Bodaboda is a foreign vid with footage from Hawaii Sur Rhone and The White Nile in Uganda.
Bodaboda, Click Here!


Small Town Boys is a great playboating video with some great stuff from skook and some river running from parts I don't know.
Small Town Boys, Click Here!


The Ditch has a warm spot in my heart because these guys are making it happen with what they have. Nice work on a drainage ditch to make a good play hole. Nice work.
The Ditch, Click Here!



All these videos are well put together and are up for the award of winning the 2005 LL Ultimate Hook Up Video Contest
There are 4 categories
Overall
Freestyle
Creeking
Humour

The Overall winner gets a Free Boat
The other category winners recieve a pro deal and other great prizes like, Woody's old booties.

You can still enter if you send in a Quicktime movie that is 400X300 and less than 15mb soon.
Email it to me at shane@liquidlogickayaks.com

Shane

Taking the Cross River to Canada.

Okay I have been on the road for a while so its time for a little more info on the CR series as well as some other stuff thats been going on.
I drove up to Canada a couple weeks ago to do a few things. I wanted to paddle the CR in a little bigger water and on some waves to just get a feel of where we were in that aspect now that we have gone through 5 different versions of the Cross River including hulls with no disk, progressive rocker, and all that stuff. What I figured out is that the spin disk is still the way to go. The CR is much looser with the disk and I don't have to put such a wide flat hull on the boat to get that looseness. What that allows me is the ability to make a forgiving boat that is still loose and easier to edge. It doesn't feel like some huge box that you are trying to paddle downstream. Nor do you have to sacrifice performance for looseness and edging. That extra width also messes with your roll.


So anyway here are the things that I have really grown to like.
1. It is comfortable. I was paddling in it all day and not having to get out for anything.
2. It was still very playful. I could flatwater cartwheel it. I could actually flatwater loop it and I am not that good at it.
3. It paddled on the wave very well. I actually chose it over a playboat some days because it was faster for catching flatter waves. In fact both of the guys that were paddling them in this video were actually psyched enough to choose them some days as well.
Zack the guy in the blue boat in the video actually asked me specifically if he could paddle it several days including wave sessions, and a couple of river runs. That was, I think, a good indicator of where it is right now. Which is, playful, comfy, and getting very close to being done.

I also paddled with Pat Camblin in the CR. That will be a post for another time.

Here is the video of Tom and Zack playing on the Ottawa. You can also check out some river running footage.
Cross Rivers on the Ottawa, Click Here!
Cross Rivers on the Green, Click Here!

More to come...
Shane

Cross Rivers on the Ottawa and the 3 Legged Chicken Man

I just got a couple photos the other day of the CR 125 on the river.
I had Polk Deters. All 64 185 pounds of him and Zack from the World
Class Kayaking Academy checking out the latest version of the CR 125.
So I figured I would throw up some pictures. Since I haven't gotten the video
edited yet. I should be able to get it loaded up in the next week as well as an up date
on the Ottawa River Festival Event.





Oh yeah I forgot to show you all this video I got of the 3 legged Chicken man the other
day on the Chattooga. The footage of the 3 legged chicken isn't that cool but the dude that
showed us the 3 legged chicken was a classic.
I hope you enjoy.
Shane
3 Legged Chicken Man Video Link