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Bloyd-Peshkin’s Adventure Kayak Magazine T-Rescue Article


The Bloyd-Peshkin’s of Have Kayaks Will Travel , wrote this article for Adventure Kayak Magazine. Though I should mention Sharon is the writer in the family, have written an article for the canadian magazine Have Kayaks will travel.


For those of you who don’t know the Bloyd-Peshkins, I will have to introduce you to the [...]

Kayak Rolling Instruction-What Works for You?


As the kayak pool session has progressed with the students, each of them has become curious about an eskimo roll. We had one dedicated rolling lesson last saturday with 10 students. A few came close to rolling, some were closer than others to getting the concepts.


Rolling, in my opinion is a basic or a [...]

Dreaming of Liquid? Kayaking plans for 2010

From Summer Sea Kayak Paddle with Doug Van Doren

So now that we are firmly entrenched in solid ice and winter. Derrick is skiing, I am skiing to work. All of us in the midwest are starting to daydream a bit about warmth and light. What are your summer plans, or winter travel plans for paddling? [...]

DVD Review-Sea Kayak With Gordon Brown

To really put Gordon Brown’s video into context you have to watch a few other instructional videos. There have been few standout sea kayaking instructional videos. Nigel Foster’s DVD Training videos is one of the standouts. Nigel Foster’s video series is one of the seminal instructional videos out there for new, intermediate, and advanced paddlers [...]

Kalamazoo Kayak Pool Sessions January-March

The Kalamazoo Sessions have been off to a grand start. Attendance has been awesome with 12-15 people for each session. Many thanks to Ken Nesbitt and the Great Lakes Adventure Club for the enthusiastic support of Lee’s and Go Kayak Now!


A pool is often a difficult place to work on strokes. Forward strokes in a [...]

Kalamazoo Pool Sessions Sponsored by Lee’s Adventure Sports

Lee’s Adventure Sports will be sponsoring Kayak Lessons and Pool Sessions throughout winter and into early spring.


Go Kayak Now! will be leading the ACA instructional program in the pool.


Please refer to the Go Kayak Now! Lessons Page for the calendar and details.


In short,


Every other Sunday starting Dec 13th 2009 between 1-3 [...]

Doug Van Doren Featured in Canoe Kayak Magazine


West Michigan’s own Doug Van Doren was featured in Canoe & Kayak Magazine as one of fourteen innovators of the sport. Conor Mihell formerly of Naturally Superior Adventures and a frequent writer and columnist for Canoe and Kayak wrote the article. I recommend picking up this issue for your scrap book.


It’s great to see [...]

Tides for Beginning Sea Kayakers ACA IDW Presentation

Tides are a basic subject that all Sea Kayakers should be aware of, whether from the Great Lakes or not. I created this presentation as a beginning step on my road to the ACA ICE, or the Instructor Certification Exam for my ACA Instructor Certification. The material is intended to be very basic as presented [...]

20th Annual WMCKA Symposium Guest Speaker Jeff Allen


Jeff Allen co-owner of Sea Kayaking Cornwall visited this year to instruct and speak. Jeff came a day early to give an instructor update for the WMCKA instructional staff. The topic this year was incident management. Jeff has written a series of articles for Ocean Paddler magazine. Jeff is also writing a book on the [...]

Diane Carr Michigan Kayaker and Artist

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 Carr!



Just to [...]