Surf Kayaking Lake Michigan Sticky Pod Mount from Keith Wikle on Vimeo. This is actually the first try on the sticky pod mount for the surf kayak. The mount even at the bow cuts out my head. I have a new tripod knuckle that should get my head in the shot, for [...]
I really like this picture despite the fact that it is completely calm.
Sea Kayaking Lake Michigan South Haven to Van Buren State Park from Keith Wikle on Vimeo. Sea Kayak trip-trying out my new camera mounting rig. I used a stickypod suction cup mounted right to the deck of the Nigel Foster Silhouette. It worked really well on the foredeck. And not so hot [...]
I often fail to mention the beautiful dunes just to the south of South Haven Michigan. There are beautiful, if not majestic sand dunes there that are as high as 150 feet. The park is wedged strangely between a nuclear power plant and private homes.
I paddled 8 miles on Sunday to [...]
Nigel Law of Savannah Canoe and Kayak published this video of the Cocoa beach waveski competition.
Looks like it was a sloppy Lake Michigan kind of day. Though no one was wearing a drysuit, so at least they had warm water and air temps.
Nigel placed 3rd overall!
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Diane Carr of Traverse City Michigan attends the WMCKA Symposium every year as an instructor. She is also an artist. I was trying to look up her e-mail address to make sure she got the invite for the Instructor Update. So I google her. This is what comes up when you google Diane [...]
I have been fortunate both in my teachers and in my paddling partners for most of my time on the water.
I remember talking to Derrick Mayoleth once a few years ago when I made the trip to Wisconsin with the family about this. He noted how fortunate I was to have [...]
Sea Kayak T-Rescue Demonstration GoKayakNow.com from Keith Wikle on Vimeo. This is Alec Bloyd Peshkin playing a very compliant and skilled victim for a T-rescue demonstration. The rescuer approaches cautiously at first to make sure the victim isn’t panicked. Then the rescuer has the victim move to the stern of his kayak [...]
Part of the changeover from KeithWikle.com to Go Kayak Now was a hope that new perspectives could be added to the site. I’ve had my eye on a couple of paddlers for articles and updates for the site.
One of the first is a fellow mid-westerner, Ohioan Marius Asipauskas. I met [...]
Sea Kayak Paddle Float Re-enter and Roll-GoKayakNow.com from Keith Wikle on Vimeo. Alec Bloyd-Peshkin demonstrates a Paddle float re-enter and roll in his sea kayak. Alec capsizes, inflates the paddle-float re-enters the flooded cockpit and then fully submerges to roll the kayak upright.
Alec Bloyd-Peshkin kindly demonstrated this paddle-float re-enter and [...]