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National Series Notebook: A Red-Hot October
The USA Surfski leaderboard grew to 203 paddlers this week, with seven new names added in five days. Kieffer now sits just ahead of Wilson Reavley (A26), whose 1,959 points represent a full season of [...]
On Downwinding: Crosswind and Mixed Days
From the parking lot the water looks like nothing worth the drive. Wind chop runs in from the southwest, a leftover groundswell rolls in from the southeast, and where the two meet the surface has [...]
2026 Great Stone Dam Race
By Wesley Echols I really enjoyed myself today at the Great Stone Dam Classic, an 8.14 mile race in Lawrence, MA hosted by Shawn Burke, and Francisco. It was a perfect day New England day [...]
On Training: Decision and Commitment
A runner lifts behind you, and for half a second you know exactly what to do. Then the half second passes, and you're still thinking about it. The gap between the boat and the swell [...]
On Training: Orientation and Pattern Recognition
Your nemesis is two kilometers of confused water where the swell from the south meets a cross-chop off the eastern point of land. You've paddled it dozens of times. For most of those sessions it's [...]
On Downwinding: Leveraging Energy
The difference between flatwater paddling and downwinding isn't subtle. Grinding a flat stretch is the opposite: all work and no rest, every foot of distance earned stroke by stroke with nothing free about it. Catching [...]
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 [...]

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Doubleheader by Chris Hipgrave, North Shore Cup and Hunting Island Paddlefest

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Doubleheader by Chris Hipgrave, North Shore Cup and Hunting Island Paddlefest

Copied with Permission from Chris Hipgrave, http://chrishipgrave.com/ Thanks Chris! This past weekend marked the end of the 2014 surfski racing calendar and a rare opportunity to compete in a doubleheader with the 20km Northshore Cup Saturday and the 10km Hunting Island Paddlefest on Sunday. Northshore Cup This years Northshore Cup on Lake [...]

Weekend Winter Blast, 2014 North Shore Cup, Summerton, South Carolina
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Weekend Winter Blast, 2014 North Shore Cup, Summerton, South Carolina

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Weekend Winter Blast, 2014 North Shore Cup, Summerton, South Carolina

While I had planned on driving down to Summerton, South Carolina for the North Shore Cup Race sponsored by Elite Ocean Sports with Chris Chappell and our wives earlier this fall, we decided that drive was too long! So I put going to the race behind me until the Wednesday night [...]

What a trip, L2L… by Joseph DiChiacchio and Mark McKenzie
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What a trip, L2L… by Joseph DiChiacchio and Mark McKenzie

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What a trip, L2L… by Joseph DiChiacchio and Mark McKenzie

Part I: what a trip... by Joseph DiChiacchio At the start of this year I made the decision to feed my competitive inner child and give Surfski racing a try. So in my signature style I would entrench myself in the experience not unlike a cultural anthropologist in order to get a [...]

Australian National Champs – Race 1 Wrap Up
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Australian National Champs – Race 1 Wrap Up

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Australian National Champs – Race 1 Wrap Up

Re-posted with permission from Oceanpaddler. Make sure you check out their cool site!!! National Champs race 1 Wrap Up The cream of the Australian Ocean Racing elite were on show at Manly Beach in NSW last weekend for the first race of the National Championships, the Belle Property Manly King of [...]

Unusual Clockwise Suspects at Nayaug Race by Tim Hudyncia
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Unusual Clockwise Suspects at Nayaug Race by Tim Hudyncia

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Unusual Clockwise Suspects at Nayaug Race by Tim Hudyncia

I demand the best out of my competitors, and they do not disappoint, beating the snot and tar out of me month after month along the coasts of Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts (I’ve been told there’s something above the Commonwealth, haven’t been there yet). They come in packs, from the [...]

New England Surfski Downwind: Finishing Touches
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New England Surfski Downwind: Finishing Touches

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New England Surfski Downwind: Finishing Touches

The weather for the final race of the season went off-script, ad-libbing uncooperative winds and a light but steady rain. Despite the gloomy day that lacked proper downwind conditions, 25 skis, a rowing shell, and 3 SUPs gathered at Long Sands Beach in Maine for one last grab at fame, glory, [...]