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griffen_williams wrote:http://www.vajdagroup.com/products/slal ... artikan-ii

Martikan's New boat! too narrow to put a c1 cockpit on...

plenty of rocker though...

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Martikan's New boat! too narrow to put a c1 cockpit on...

I don't know if this link will go through, but its a shot of the outfitting in Martikan's c-1, which is really a k-1, from what I understand. It may give you some ideas. After reading JFD's post, I'm tempted to convert the old Seda Climax slalom k-1 I use for attaining...edg ...

I believe that Martikan and Estanguet are dropping their upstream edge coming into gate 11 in order to load the stern and set-up a slight stern pivot into and out of 11. It doesn't appear to me to be related to the line that they ...

IIRC the Makao is a full width boat... Never liked that style personally, it seems unneccesary to have such a wide boat... If you look at the boat Martikan has designed for 2012, it's so narrow in the bow they have to use a slalom kayak cockpit rather than a c1 cockpit; and it has 1½" wings on ...

... timing watching this after doing the boatercross this weekend in Richmond (Dominion Riverrock). I'm still pumped up after those races so watching Martikan is keeping me ramped up. 8)

Martikan is one of my all time paddling heroes. That footage is truely awesome.

Brian Miller's C1 Green Rivers Narrows footage is a big part of my inspiration to paddle a c-boat too.

the only two people I know that don't work on their forward strokes are Martikan and Tony Estanguet. Oh, actually they do. I couldn't disagree more with you on folks naturally having a good forward stroke. My forward took 3 years of coaching to get where it ...

... Marriott . . . Jiroslav Simek . . . Jiri Rohan . . . Reinhold Kauder . . . Frank Addison . . . Wilfrid Forgues . . . Robin Bell . . . Michal Martikan (top five). . . anyone named Estanguet (Tony, top five) . . . Juraj Mincik . . . Henry David Thoreau . . . Alden

Tony estanguet
Martikan
Ken Hughes
James Weir
kris van autenboer
mary stam

in no particular order , but some one have to remind you lot that there are other parts of this world .

... but pointed out that the material is designed to be fixed with normal composite materials if it breaks... I'll probably be buying a Styrolite Martikan when I have the cash...

Try searching on Martikan C1 in Plastic, there was a discussion about this when Vajda announced their Styrolight boats. Think it was a couple years ago. Sorry I was not able to put the link from that thread into this one.

thread steal cont. Martikan is such a beast!!!!! I have started to dabble in slalom boating and all my bad habits have been called to my attention quickly. One of the biggest was how much I would drop my elbow of my top arm. So i started ...

yeah, your cross j snap is bad a$$.
maybe you should teach it to these guys...

estanguet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t6fuY262J8

martikan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yoxf772zNo

bell:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNcoz1JWbHM

... attainments in a section of the Truckee river that is beautiful, goes for miles, but just seems to break c-1 paddles. I've heard that the great Martikan paddles k-1 almost as well as c-1, and that some of the French slalom c-2's would cross train at least once a week in wildwater k-1 for cardio ...