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The Gauley Fest weekend is only 2 weeks away and already several fellow c-boaters are planning on showing up! :D So far, these boaters are planning on attending: Mike Elsea(open boater) Paul (PAC) Joey Tim (Timzjatl) Will (Cosmik Debris) Whitewater Bernie (yeehaw!) and me plus assorted guests (shudd...

Would you be willing to give a little more detail on the back surgery? Was there a traumatic injury or a chronic condition that needed work done on it? What got worked on and did you go through physical therapy? What is your flexibility like at this time? Do you have any "Do not" rules? It's good to...

As of now, I am planning on going up to WVa the weekend of Gauley Fest, Sept. 19-21 (that will be Friday through Sunday). Whoever wants to hook up on Friday, we can run either the Upper or Lower Gauley or the New Gorge, depending on crowdedness, water levels, and our moods that morning :lol: . For S...

We are now registered for the wilderness medicine course in Chattanooga, but I need to revise the dates we will be down there. I will DEFINITELY be paddling on Saturday, October 11. My wife will probably take a rafting trip down it (just this once, though :roll: ) so if the Tellico is not running, t...

I have only one question. Do you personally recommend that we start slashing our necks everytime we stick a roll? Ha ha ha :lol: ! I'm trying to be funny again. I only watched the first 2 videos (back deck roll, classic) and really like them. Thanks for putting them up here for us. Maybe "Sir Adam" ...

If I remember correctly, the c-1 paddler from Perception (I can't remember his name) paddled a converted Method Air back around 1999/2000, or whenever the boat was new on the market. I snagged the boat from him up at Potomac Fest and ran off to the river with it and tried it out. I remember that the...

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Welcome to our c-forum! First question I have for you is "where do you live?". I ask this because if you are near one of us other c-boating participants, you may be able to get together or join us at one of our paddling trips and check out all the different gear that are being used (e.g. paddles, he...

You know, "Sir Adam", it seems like whenever you are getting groups together to paddle the Hudson, I gotta go run off somewheres else and paddle something different :( . This time is going to be no different. Ellen and I are heading to Chattanooga, TN, the first weekend in October for a wilderness m...

Since "Old Fogy" posted about rolling in wave trains, I was reminded of where I developed the ability to roll with the blade upstream. It was Middle Keeney in the New River Gorge :D ! As is still the case today, I usually get knocked over by one of the two wave holes located near the bottom of that ...

Regardless of river currents, the direction I flip, and where my paddle is located when I flip, there is only one roll I ever use--it is my onside roll. All the exotic methods I mentioned previously in the other post all serve to get me set up on my onside--so, how does a c-boater roll up when the b...

Dang, PAC :o ! I'm glad you're doing okay, but ya gotta stop checkin' river depths with your noggin' and start trusting the river guages :wink: . You should have asked me that question when I was paddling with you a couple of weekends ago. I have a Grateful Heads Hard Hit that I have used for 5-6 ye...

Hi, Aric, and welcome to C-boats :) . Plenty of boaters have pointed out the obvious reason to not use the back-deck roll predominantly (your face and front of your torso and arms are exposed :o ). I want to point out that everyone needs several rolling methods because every flip is not the same eve...

Ellen and I spent the weekend with PAC and his family at their place near Ohiopyle and it was a great time. Thank you, Paul, and to your family for hosting us and taking the time to paddle some really neat stuff. :D There were three highlights from this weekend. The first was paddling PAC's converte...

All right. That does it! There have been several posts recently about some of our fellow c-boaters that have been playing around with the "dark side" :evil: . We need to bring these individuals to the light and EXPOSE their weakness. Only then will they truly be "respectable" in every sense of the w...