flipping the boobtube whilst getting my supper yesterday when I see a guy in an old C1 (maybe a Hann?) running some pretty gnarly water. Cool! Cuts to a scene with badguys talking about "stoppng him at the bridge" cuts to the bridge where the sherriff is hanging nets across the river! Here comes our heroic C1'er. He flips, slides under the nets, rolls back up and he's off. Cut to a park along the river with lots of cheering townsfolk as up comes our paddler. Cut to our paddler pulling out his boat in dry bluejeans and running shoes and getting arrested by the sherrif for running without a permit. My God! It's James Brolin. I didn't know he paddled.
Next comes lots of lousy dialog and story line with Daisy Duke as the female reporter. Then at the end, a wonderful chase scene with Brolin and DD in a C2 being chased by 3 goons in black Mirages (early perception yaks) and the uberbaddie in a black C1(also maybe a Hann?).
Some nice footage of cranking water and decent paddling along with some wild west on the water heroics by Brolin.
I think the movie was called "White Water Rebel" and was shot on the Kern River. No idea who the real paddlers were. I'm going to try to rent it so I can fast forward through the "story" and see the cool paddling again.
I rememeber that scene from years ago, but forgot it was a CBoater! Mind you, when I saw it I don't remember knowing what a CBoat was.... . Maybe that's what triggered this strange "addiction" .
If that IS the movie, please confirm it-I'd like to rent it too!
ive heard of that too. ill have to rent that. that upside down thing is a nice move! I wonder who the real boater was . . .
you know, someday they're going to wake up and do a movie version of "The Last River" (about the Tsang Po). And, if they want to be true to life, they are going to need a C-1 stuntman . . .
Alden,
See if you can get everyone to agree to the move in Railroad on the Esopus this weekend. At the Open Boat Nationals only rodeo OC1s entered the X-class and they all boofed that big rock that Smerda had craned in to eliminate the possibility of all OCs being sucked into an extemely sticky hole. You can lead the pack in flipping on the entry to gate 19 and rolling to your offside to get a good line to river right and the small eddy that you must make for upstream gate 20 (if Kaz hangs the course I'm imagining). Got that dry ice prototype ready for testing to smoke on down the course?
Now I'll have to get that movie as well.
Pat
I looked the movie up on imdb.com, and it is indeed called White Water Rebels, a made for TV movie released in 1983. It's not available from netflix.com, or at my local shops. If anyone locates an online source, I'd like to hear about it.
Well, I just bid on an ebay auction for it (the ONLY auction that came up when I searched! ); only place I could find it. As such, I may just treat it as abandonware for anyone who wants to cover the cost of blank VHSes and shipping (couple bucks, max).
I'll post a new topic when I get it, assuming I win the auction. Then I'll set up the VCRs and make a day of it and doing laundry or something. That there was a quick response
that is the movie, the Kern is the river, and I'll bet my guru, Tom Johnson had something to do with it. I'll check when I get back into town and update whatever has been learned by then.
Ric Taylor
. Maybe that's what triggered this strange "addiction" 
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