New 128 foot waterfall
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Topic: New 128 foot waterfall
Posted By: Travisimo
Subject: New 128 foot waterfall
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2011 at 3:17pm
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/41491510#41491510 - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/41491510#41491510 ------------- H2O please |
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Posted By: Blair
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2011 at 3:27pm
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I remember reading about this from Canoe & Kayak and how difficult the lip is at the top and having to recover from the auto-boof ledge to be able to tuck and pencil it. BTW, MSN is predy huge for this event... Did Bradt get MSN news coverage on his 189ft plunge because I don't remember seeing any and that is anyways the world record... I've only heard an audio interview from some radio station. ------------- |
Posted By: GHannam
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2011 at 2:09pm
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I also remember this article from C&K but I thought the same thing-- I don't remember there being MSN coverage on Tyler's record breaker?? Just the same, congrats to the guy-- nice line!
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Posted By: Wiggins
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2011 at 3:52pm
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MSNBC did cover Tyler Bradt's descent, but they did it months after the boating community found out about it. I remember because for a month after the story was on MSNBC everyone at work started asking me if I knew about the new waterfall record. Since this usually happened at the end of a long night shift I kept thinking "who the hell broke Bradt's record?"
Kyle ------------- I smell bacon |
Posted By: James
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2011 at 4:25pm
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I know I am going to get slammed for saying this since I have never done anything near as extreme to what these guys are doing, BUT these interviews all sound the same. Same questions, Why, How, What do you feel, What are you thinking and are you going to keep doing it, and the responses are always the same too. If you did something this extreme how would you respond? |
Posted By: jhoff
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2011 at 5:23pm
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Rafa Ortiz is a great boater but he's not the most articulate guy (but you should keep in mind that English is his second language). His voiceover at the beginning of Rush Struges's new kayaking movie is borderline embarrassing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVT6QsRDt_M David Foster Wallace has this great piece about the banality of athlete interviews. He's talking about tennis players, but he ultimately concludes that these interviews are ultimately unsatisfying because the moment everyone wants to hear about - taking that big shot, or in our case paddling over the lip of a big drop - is a fundamentally inarticulate moment. The reason top athletes succeed is because they're able to turn off their conscious though processes, and focus on simply doing what needs to be done. Which is precisely why they have nothing interesting or exciting to say about it. I thought that was a pretty cool insight. |
Posted By: irenen
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2011 at 7:33am
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Originally posted by slickhorn
Well I think you kind of just did. :) (Although I'd love to hear a middle school teacher from Iowa's take on it.)For me, extreme or not, the true joy of paddling is that suspension of the internal dialog, when you no long think "gotta get left" you just see and react in a timeless, egoless, indefinitely long moment of NOW. The clarity and peace of that mental space is the internal reason I paddle. The external is all about the place. How do you say that in 10 seconds in a way a middle school teacher from Iowa can understand? ------------- It's all fun and games until someone loses a paddle. |
Posted By: JoesKayak
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2011 at 7:53am
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Originally posted by James I know I am going to get slammed for saying this since I have never done anything near as extreme to what these guys are doing, BUT these interviews all sound the same. Same questions, Why, How, What do you feel, What are you thinking and are you going to keep doing it, and the responses are always the same too. If you did something this extreme how would you respond? I would love to hear the next kayaker to plug something huge and get interviewed by a network show say "I just did it for the p***y"  |