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Playak Weekly Digest
The world's top paddling news in week 29, 2016.

News Watch Scenic SUP Yoga Session In Oregon SUP Magazine - For SUP yogis, the days of practicing within the confines of a yoga studio are now a distant memory. Instead of staring at four walls in a stuffy room, these flexible athletes can exercise their mind, body, and spirit while floating on nature’s most calming element: water. What Does Brexit Mean for the Kayaking Industry? P&H Paddlers - The British public have spoken, and they’ve elected to leave the European Union. When You Want Something You’ve Never Had Girls at Play - This past weekend I had three ladies come out to an Intro to Whitewater Clinic. We experienced both sunshine and a thunderstorm together, worked with wet exits, strokes, ferries and eddies. Lessons from the Trail: Delaying The Inevitable Canoe Kayak - Here are few tips that can help you on your wilderness adventure, involving paddling and portaging. Read on, be adventurous, outdoors but also be safe, wise and equipped to do your adventure!! Tips are given by experiences of a wilderness canoe paddler himself. Mobile Waterway Blues Kayaking the Mobile - Tensaw River Delta - This is what kayaking in Mobile's Trashy urban waterways is like. Sadly, this is after 5 years of filing complaints about the City's waterway trash pollution problem to the City of Mobile and to the Alabama Department of Environmental Management. Tip of the Week: How to Fix a Dent in Your Kayak Canoe Kayak - It happens to all of us at some point, that moment when all the fun, excitement, and exhilaration of paddling whitewater comes to a screeching halt. Reality sets in and you realize, that was NOT a soft hit. It can be a piton off a drop, a wrong angle through a slot, or even just a hole with a hidden rock in it. Sometimes, however, the dent in your boat will linger, hurting its value or even its performance. Middle Kings - First Day on the River Reiner Glanz - So we spent our first night just before Palisade Creek joins from the river left side and brings an essential amount of water to make the kayaking more worthwhile. Our breakfast consisted of  a nice little combination of two slides that marked our start into our first full day on the river. Big Ocean Bumps and Insightful Athlete Interviews From Maui2Molokai SUPracer - Just in case you weren't in Hawaii on the weekend, here's a great clip from Saturday's Maui2Molokai race, featuring some big ocean bumps and insightful athlete interviews. Maple Street Canal Kayaking the Mobile - Tensaw River Delta - After almost 5 years of filing complaints to Environmental Enforcement Agencies about the trash pollution in Maple Street Canal, how is the Canal looking today? SUP Fishing in Yellowknife, NWT Norm Hann Expeditions - My trip up north originated with a phone call from Benji Straker, co owner with Ivan Gloeden, of Old Town Paddle Co in Yellowknife, NWT. Into Washington The Next Horizon Line - After more than 2 months of gypsy living, we finally took a break in White Salmon, thanks to our Uncle Jim and Aunt Cindy who have called it home for something like 40 years hosting us for about 10 days despite being super busy preparing for their daughter's wedding.  We spent quite a few of those days enjoying the Little White and Green Truss and even got to paddle with our Dad from Husum to the Columbia through the old Condit Dam site. SUP Yoga Hong Kong Boga Boards - Sup yoga Hong Kong was born out of a passion project by Nadine Bubner and myslef (Diana Cheung). Living and working in a densely populated city surrounded by sky scrapers, meant that even yoga on a mat could often feel crowded. Plan 2014 is Necessary for Tourism American Rivers - As the owner of Uncle Sam Boat Tours, I have directly experienced the damage poor water level management has had on the environment and area businesses. Northumberland kayak puffin competition. Jackson Kayak - Saturday the 28th may was a date set on the calendar for the Northumberland puffin kayak competition. A first of its kind and very welcome to see yet another event and venue for budding salt water kayak anglers to attend. Kawarau River - New Zealand Jordan Searle - New Zealand is famous, or infamous, for it's rivers and whitewater. Pristine, remoteness, continuous gradient and often helicopter access are all images that resonate when people dream about paddling in New Zealand.

Factor Athletes with top online media coverage in July 1. Bart De Zwart 2. Lina Augaitis 3. Connor Baxter Videos ICAST 2016 - BUFF® USA (The Heliconia Press) New Okuma Komodo SS Baitcasting Reel - ICAST 2016: Episode 371 Paddling Pocono Mountains Whitewater (The Heliconia Press) Top tips – simple drysuit care (paul.robertson) Seaguar Fishing Lines with Shaw Grigsby - ICAST 2016 Upcoming Gorge Downwind Champs US, OR, Columbia River Gorge , Jul 18 - Jul 23 Missouri American Water MR340 US, MO, Kansas City , Jul 19 - Jul 22 Dagali River Festival Norway, Dagali, Jul 21 - Jul 24 Washburn Board Across the Bay US, WI, Washburn, Jul 22 - Jul 23 Hudson Valley Paddlesport Symposium US, NY, Cold Spring, Jul 22 - Jul 24