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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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ICF Women’s World Surf Ski Championship Highlight Video
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ICF Women’s World Surf Ski Championship Highlight Video

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ICF Women’s World Surf Ski Championship Highlight Video

It was wonderful to watch the race LIVE Streaming on Youtube. Michele Eray(South African/USA) was in the lead the entire race (32K) with Teaneale Hatton(NZ) keeping in touch. With 3k to go and flatter conditions, Teaneale made her move, coming along side Michele and passing her. Michele countered by riding her [...]

Cape Cod Downwind: Instant Classic
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Cape Cod Downwind: Instant Classic

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Cape Cod Downwind: Instant Classic

Say what you may about Chris Sherwood, you have to credit his Prospero-like powers to bend tempests to his will. After an impressive inaugural effort in 2014, this year's rollicking Cape Cod Downwind cements him as New England's preeminent Weathermage. With an unseasonable northeast wind (a bit of showing off there) [...]

Winners of SurfskiRacing.com Race Series: Jan 1st,Greg 2nd ,Eric 3rd, Mary Beth 1st.
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Winners of SurfskiRacing.com Race Series: Jan 1st,Greg 2nd ,Eric 3rd, Mary Beth 1st.

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Winners of SurfskiRacing.com Race Series: Jan 1st,Greg 2nd ,Eric 3rd, Mary Beth 1st.

The SurfskiRacing.com Series is made up of 12 races starting with the Snow Row, a four mile sprint in frigid conditions in March. It ends with the new (2nd annual) Cape Cod Downwind. Over the years I have added more flat water races so there is an excellent mixture of flat [...]

Great Peconic Race: It’s Kieffer, Lishchuk, and… Lupinski
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Great Peconic Race: It’s Kieffer, Lishchuk, and… Lupinski

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Great Peconic Race: It’s Kieffer, Lishchuk, and… Lupinski

Everyone has that friend. The one that tells you that you just have to go to such-and-such a restaurant and try their possum sliders (I'm assuming your friend is from Appalachia). Bob Capellini's not quite that friend (too refined a palette), but he has been tireless in promoting the Great Peconic [...]

USCA Nationals by Steve Horney
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USCA Nationals by Steve Horney

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USCA Nationals by Steve Horney

A “Stellar” Nationals As competitive paddlers, we’re blessed to have many outstanding races throughout this country, and in fact throughout the world. Few, however, can mimic the flavor of the USCA Nationals. Hosted annually, and at a different location each year, this is river racing at its finest. No matter the [...]

Battle of the Bay (Featuring Sean Rice)
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Battle of the Bay (Featuring Sean Rice)

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Battle of the Bay (Featuring Sean Rice)

Nobody can deny that Rhode Island has a proud history worthy of appreciation. Crafting a full-fledged state out of a forgotten parcel small enough to be written off as a surveying error? A real credit to Yankee ingenuity. Let's say on that basis that Rhode Island merits a couple of surfski [...]