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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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Ride the Bull:The Longest 8 Seconds by Greg Lesher
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Ride the Bull:The Longest 8 Seconds by Greg Lesher

Nobody finishes the Blackburn Challenge or the Essex River Race and says aloud "Man, was that fun!" That was the universal refrain after the inaugural Ride the Bull race, however. Actually, one of the paddlers did tell me mid-race that he "wanted to go home", but since said home is in New Jersey, [...]

Ride The Bull Video – by Borys Markin
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Ride The Bull Video – by Borys Markin

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Ride The Bull Video – by Borys Markin

Check out this great video Borys took from his boat at the race!!

RePost of 2013 Ride the Bull, Summary and Pics, Super Fun!
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RePost of 2013 Ride the Bull, Summary and Pics, Super Fun!

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RePost of 2013 Ride the Bull, Summary and Pics, Super Fun!

This winter I thought there should be another race before the Blackburn Challenge and after the Sakonnet River Race since there was a seven week gap. So I came up with the Ride the Bull Race, conferred with Tim about the course off and on during our winter paddles. So today [...]

Ride The Bull Race
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Ride The Bull Race

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Ride The Bull Race

Join us for this exciting nine mile rough water ocean race. Can you Ride the Bull? This series is part of the SurfskiRacing.com Series sponsored by Stellar. We laid out the course to go along the rocks and small cliffs to test your rough water skills. Course starts at Fort Wetherill, [...]

Sakonnet River Race Report by Greg Lesher
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Sakonnet River Race Report by Greg Lesher

NE US Surfski Race Reports - 2013

Sakonnet River Race Report by Greg Lesher

Sakonnet River: Huki! Huki! Huki! Mary Beth and I pulled onto the beach at McCorrie Point an hour and a half before the start of the Sakonnet River Race and watched in growing anticipation as car after car parked alongside us. When the last stragglers arrived from points West, there were [...]

Sakonnet River Race: Great Turnout, Glorious Conditions, Great Fun!
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Sakonnet River Race: Great Turnout, Glorious Conditions, Great Fun!

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Sakonnet River Race: Great Turnout, Glorious Conditions, Great Fun!

Thanks to everyone for coming and to my wife Betsy with registration, pics, and timing. Thanks to Chris and Razz for taking pics. We had 24 paddlers today coming from all over the Northeast, making it an excellent turnout for the 5th Sakonnet River Race. Conditions were as good as they [...]