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Throwing your paddle of a waterfall is not something you should just decide spontaneously, if you´ve
decided you are going to throw it, you should know it before running it.

This move has some pros and some contras:

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Running waterfalls is one of my favorite things in kayaking, even thought it only lasts for few seconds, it is one of the greatest feelings ever. That doesn’t mean you should go and run every single drop you find, running a waterfall takes big responsibility and compromise with yourself and with all the people you are paddling with.
If you’ve decided to start running big drops, I mean from 50 feet up, here are some moves that might help you to get that perfect line:
1. First of all you don’t wan… Continue

Global warming is affecting Earth, that’s a fact everyone knows, or at least everyone should know.
There are hundreds of things you might know about global warming, from stuff you’ve heard in the news, or read on the books, like for example: cars and other producers of Co2 are one of the main cause, or the most popular one: polar bears are drowning cause of the ice melting.
All this information you get from the communication media it’s true and you shouldn’t ignore it. But right now I want to ch… Continue

Mexico is one of the best places to be a creek boater, it has so many rivers, with so much potential, and most of them unexplored. The other good thing about this is that kayaking is a new sport here, so that leaves a lot of FD for us.
This time our FD takes place in Cuernavaca, which is just 30 minutes drive from the big city, this river is like a ghost river. The first time we got to this waterfall, there was not enough water to even consider running it.

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