Archive for the ‘Surf Ski’ Category

Hey guys sorry it’s taken so long but here are the highlights from this years marathon season, following myself and my friends around the world to various events, including both marathon world cups 1 & 2, the Nelo Summer Challenge and finally the Marathon World Championships in Banyoles Spain… Thanks to everyone for a great season of racing, I am already looking forward to next year!

Last weekend the famous boat manufacture Nelo ran their annual Summer Challenge Surf Ski event in Villa Do Conde in North Portugal. For those readers who might not be familiar with Nelo, get your self out from under that rock, have a shower and listen up; Nelo make racing kayaks and canoes. Their boat designs, build quality and service (all as standard) is unrivalled in the Flat Water racing community and they now make Surf Skis too. With the majority of Olympic medals won in Nelo boats, they don’t do things by half measures, and when they announced their new range of Surf Skis people started to get excited. Read the rest of this entry »

Stickering up and trying out the new Nelo Ski, I had never been in a Ski before so this was going to be interesting! Turns out it’s much harder than it looks, you can’t just pull harder to go fast, you really do need to know what the waves are doing and make the best of them. In terms of effort, little and often seems to be the way the best guys paddle, to try and catch ‘runs’. To be honest, I think it would be easier if there was some wind and some bigger waves! But this has to be some of the most fun I’ve had in a kayak, I want to order one right now.

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