Cool moves in an inflatable on the Ocoee

[briansauer]

enjoy!

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[Eric Esche]

Nice moves for a double duckie. I'd like to see them in a C2 Or C2 Open, as I bet they would be fairly good in those as well. Reminded me of an offset Gemni C2 crew I used to know. They looked like they were having fun. Great when you have a tandem partner that wants to go for it with you. I'm feeling real old this afternoon.

BTW, Getting run over by a commercial raft on the Ocoee or any other river can get you munched. Been there more than once when I was blind in a hole and got rammed out by the centipede. 6 or 8 paddles chunking down on you for the too many seconds it takes to come out from underneath them usually convinces you to yield to those bigger than you in the future. Ocoee does get crowded at times and those guys sort of cut it close yielding the hole, but they were working it.

They were worth watching - Thanks for posting it.

Eric

[El Dino]

Classic vid. I haven't seen so many crossfires & pirouettes & dancers in a LONG time. I miss the Ocoee, but it can be a madhouse of paddlers.

[okieboater]

Awesome moves for the day and even now in a tandem

The more I see of these SOAR boats the better I like them. Should make an awesome low water multiday boat on runs like Selway, Middle Fork etc

[c8mb]

i don't know the terminology, but i liked the "keith moon" over the head paddle spin.

[Eric Esche]

The baton twirl used to be "proof" you had made an eddy, or were really seated in a hole, back when we were "counting" eddies like 7 eddies in Jawbone, 15 eddies in "Entrance" etc. Very old school, but it felt good. We also used to throw up our paddles and catch them majorette style or go into handsurfing on the down stream side while twirling the up stream hand. Hot doggin before there were play boats and all we had were pop-ups, enders, pirouettes, and surfing a ride in a hole. Remember first days I made 100, 200, then 300 enders in one trip. Yeah, I know I'm showing my age again. Like doing handstands on the gunnels in an open. I'm not sure I'm that limber right now even with a cortisone shot, but I sure am better.

Eric

[Eric Esche]

I agree with the appreciation of what Zoar, Aire, Hyside, and other inflatables can do today. Last year's TEFKACS was an eye openner for me, working with Mike Stanley and his K-13 section, which was half Aire IK's. Inflatables have come such a long way from the early rubber duckies. They deserve a class/section of their own as IK's, and to no longer be referred to as rubber duckies. They aren't the same craft as some of us may be thinking of, particularly if we are old and grey. But for available money, I could even see me trying them out someday. Hope to see more of them on the rivers here. And yes, I would like to try a Zoar or some of the other brands some day like SOTAR (if they are still in existance). Mike Stanley and others in ACC can probably show and tell us which current models are worth looking at.

Eric

[Phil in K.C.]

Sweet!! I just emailed Michelle to tell her she is on youtube!! ..

[Tim Eubanks]

Go Single-Bladers!!
Ya think those guys have done that a few times?

[Phil in K.C.]

Funny what you can find on youtube....funny.

Bunch of MWA paddlers past and present...Judy is an AWSOME open boater...only got to paddle with her a little before she left the area...paddle with Michelle lots....she was quit suprised at that little find! Thanks.