C&K mag #31ss- final - Canoe & Kayak

The wave is a bit tricky but with plenty of practice
you can get the hang of it. For me spinning to the
right is easier, there’s a bit more of a shoulder to
use, I am a bit heavy to stay on doing left turns.
At the recent Tompkins rodeo, the girls were doing
wicked upside down surfing. Some were rolling
back up onto the wave and carrying on playing.
Cool indeed with major eyelid, nose, ear flushing
and mega shoulder wrenching down there in the
deep fast stuff! Wish I was light enough to do that.
Some of the paddlers at the rodeo showed what
was possible here and there’s a long way for most
of us to go before you can say “I tapped this spot”
Richard biggin it up in Huka Hole
Then they will invent a new trick like a
stinkohelixaflippaburgerdonkadiveapopturnythingamy
(which I have been working on in the shower with
the soap on a rope). The waters are nice and warm
here. In the winter this makes for eerie misty
conditions - like spooky. Even the road is in the
best order I have ever seen it. The guys drilling
for steam in the power station next door do
some grading.
So what’s your excuse then? Get to Taupo, slap
yourself into a playboat and throw down, cos you
know you love it.
ISSUE THIRTYone • 2005 15