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On Training: Efficiency and Friction
During any long session or race, most of each stroke converts cleanly into forward motion. A small fraction gets diverted into correction, stabilization, and adjustment. Some of that cost comes from outside: the ocean pushes, [...]
On Racing: Finishing Strong
Finishing well has little to do with who is most tired. Everyone is tired. What separates paddlers at the end of a race is not how much they have left, but how clearly they can [...]
On Racing: Expecting the Unexpected
The forecast you checked the night before is completely different when you wake up. The wind has increased, the swell period has changed, and there's a conversation happening near the water's edge about which direction [...]
On Downwinding: Reading Lines
The line appears before the decision to take it is fully formed. A shift in the water texture, maybe forty meters ahead, something about the way a long roller is organizing at an angle to [...]
On Training: Chain of Fools
The stroke catches and the boat runs. There is a feeling to it, a brief firmness in the water that holds long enough for the body to push through, and the boat moves with more [...]
Nationals: Meet the (Blackburn) Challenge
Every local racing community has a structure. You know who the fast paddlers are, roughly how you stack up against them, and what a good day on the water looks like for you. That knowledge [...]
18th Sakonnet River Race 2026
The 18th Sakonnet River Race went off without a hitch with a small group of New England surfski paddlers. Conditions were ideal for the 9.4 mile course. It was not the total grind up to [...]
On Racing: Current, Tide, and Timing
Current is the quiet architect of many races. Unlike wind, it rarely announces itself. There is no sound, no visible force—just the subtle difference between working hard and going nowhere, or moving efficiently with effort [...]
On Downwinding: Decision Scope
Around the ninety-minute mark, a bump builds ahead and gets left alone. Not because of anything physical. The opportunity was real. But a sprint that reads as obvious on a twenty-minute run reads differently when [...]
On Training: Recovery and Adaptation
The main concept behind "training" of any sort is that damage accumulates when work occurs, and adaptation happens during recovery. There's a well-established process at this point for optimizing our adaptation mechanism to quickly achieve [...]

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2017 Blackburn Start by Olga Sydorenko

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Jamestown Double Beaver: Sandwiched
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Jamestown Double Beaver: Sandwiched

As a final tune-up before the Gorge Downwind Championships, I had to make this year's Jamestown Double Beaver count. I was feeling pretty good about my stamina - this would mark my seventh race of the season - but my technique has been sloppy. Rather than pushing myself to new heights, [...]

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2017 Double Beaver Race

The Ride the Bull Race and the Double Beaver Race both held in Jamestown, Rhode Island are tough rough water courses by New England standards. Today was a typical day on Narragansett Bay, light winds but building, opposing tide and current, swells, refractory waves from all that water being pushed from [...]

Sakonnet Race 2017
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Sakonnet Race 2017

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Sakonnet Race 2017

Each year since 2008 I have held the Sakonnet River Race. We typically average 20-25 highly motivated paddlers and this year was no different. We did have some first timers spread thoughout the pack: Tim Hackett who has joined Tim Dwyer and I on our training paddles since Tim lives in [...]

Ride the Bull: The One That Got Away
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Ride the Bull: The One That Got Away

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Ride the Bull: The One That Got Away

Back in 2013, Wesley and Tim took advantage of Rhode Island's generous tax incentive program to bring the Ride the Bull race to New England's 6th largest state ("Small in Stature. Big in Hea... Hey, give me back my lunch money!"). Situated in the tempestuous waters off the southern coast of [...]

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You may need to turn on your brain’s synthesizer turbo boost function to follow my (somewhat convoluted) “creative rationale”:
1. This past Saturday (the day I did the editing of this video) was Mandela Day in South Africa, the day on which we recall his 67 years of public service and are encouraged to engage in 67 minutes of public service for those in need. This sets the scene with a shift in focus from ourselves, to others esp. those less fortunate than ourselves.
2. Regardless of one’s stand on religion, I believe that it is difficult to disagree with the assertion that our mission on earth (or at least, a significant part thereof), as individual human beings, is to do our best to make life on earth more like life in heaven. Where goodness, justice, mercy & love, firmly prevail over their evil counterparts.
3. Freddy: It just so happens that I have in fact heard God’s prompting, powerfully, through his music before**.
4. So, the implied question for each of us is: “What can I change in my life to bring the reality of heaven just a little bit closer to the here and now ?” ……….because, Heaven should be HERE and NOW !
5. Even if you don’t like the bigger existential assertion and personal question then, perhaps if you know Cape Town and its immeasurable physical beauty, you may agree, with my secondary, lighter, notion, that when God created Cape Town, he was experimenting with designs for heaven !

** I don’t wish to offend conservative Christians; I am not suggesting that Freddy IS a Divine messenger - I am merely asking you to imagine him as one, and with that mindset, to listen to any promptings you may hear in the song.

Music: Queen "Heaven for Everyone"

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Surfski is Life HEAVEN should be HERE

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