We were very lucky to have Matthew Norconk to take photos from the pier and shore with his Canon rebel DSLR. He got some great shots of the paddle surfers. It was a rough day for the surf kayakers looking to catch easy rides. It was a slug fest with a steady Southwest wind into …
Tag Archive: Surf Kayaking
Oct
13
US National Surf Kayaking Championship Results
This is the promo video for the World Surf Kayak Championships that will be held in the Outerbanks of North Carolina, Cape Hatteras in Fall of 2011. The qualifying event was this past weekend at Cape Hatteras. ESKA, hosted the tournament event. As it turned out, according to ESKA, it was an international event with …
Oct
04
Big Wave Kayak Surfing in South Africa with Steve Fisher
Steve Fisher in this short trailer for the film Wild Coast Heat is out riding giants in a surf kayak. What’s amazing to me is that his boats are a hybrid between whitewater and surf kayak. Not sure I could even get up to speed on those monsters without getting munched. I began day dreaming …
Sep
21
Self-Coaching Surf Kayak Skills
A new blog came out a while ago that I discovered via Facebook called SurfKayakSkills.com. This blog has a lot of great content created by members of the England National Surf Team, that frankly I wish I’d thought of creating first. The best concept piece I’ve seen on their site is in regard to Surf …
Sep
08
End of Summer Kayak Surfing
Each Summer there are weeks and weeks of flat water on the Great Lakes, to the point where the kayak surfing junkies are ready to start sacrificing puppies to the weather god for a 3 foot wave. September has given up her jewels like an oyster with a hiccup. I managed to get out three …
Aug
06
Ancient Crossover between Stand Up Paddle Surfing and Surf Kayaking
This ancient Peruvian crossover between stand up paddle surfing, and kayak surfing looks pretty sweet. It’s essentially a reed boat and a giant log. How simple could it get? I like the primitive simplicity in this type of paddle surfing. No carbon fiber, no shaped paddles, you get to use a log to paddle out …
Jun
24
Watertech Kayak Surf Session Portugal
It’s all things Portuguese this week, Portugal vs Brazil World Cup match, the death of our beloved Jose Saramago, and now Watertech Surf Kayaking Session Video. This Kayak Surfing video is on the long side, I like that about Vimeo BTW. But check it out, combo of waveski and sit inside surf kayak craft. Kayaksurf …
May
26
Surf Kayaking for Sea Kayakers Presentation
This presentation is being given at WMCKA, and a few other locations this summer. I thought this might be interesting for those that have e-mailed me and asked about surfing sea kayaks, or white water kayaks on the Great Lakes. If you have any comments or suggestions please let me know I am interested in …
Apr
19
Kayak Surfing at the Pier at South Haven Michigan
John Fleming and I made it down to South Haven to go Surf Kayaking on Lake Michigan this saturday. Wind was 20-25 knots on shore with 3-5 foot waves at the buoy. We managed to try and grab some rides very close to the pier based on how tame the conditions were. Plenty of wind …
Mar
29
Santa Cruz Surf Comp Results 2010
The Santa Cruz surf fest site has posted from all heats here. Individual Heat Results are also contained there. It looked like the men’s HP and IC categories were chock full of the best of the best hat’s off of all the competitors. Winner from HP Mens Galen Licht of Santa Cruz *Sean Morely 9th …
