Julie: Alright you can’t kayak without the gear and today the show has the goods to
Scott Murison from Wild Rock Outfitters, he brought a kayak and your paddles
into this studio. so Scott show us what you got.
Scott: Well as you said it I brought a boat, paddles, lots of good from stuff.
Julie: Alright, so two paddles here and this are for free style kayaking specifically?
Scott: These are indeed, they are little different from what you’ve used around the lake,
they’re shorter, they got bigger blades and they meant for power.
Julie: Alright, now these ones got kind of a funny curved shaft part here. Why is that?
Scott: Called the bend shaft paddle and is more anatomically correct for your risk and its
easier on your risk, easier on your elbows so you’re less sore and less tired at the
end of the hard day in the river.
Julie: Right and this one is really light too, it looks like carbon fiber?
Scott: It is indeed carbon fiber.
Julie: Nice. Okay and tell me a little bit about sizing. How would a person my size make
sure I have a paddle for my height?
Scott: Sure, for your height or shoulder width. If you think of it how your most
efficiently operated there’s a certain width your shoulders going to take when
you’re doing push ups and then that’s going to justify that length of how are you
going to get. So you might be at a 188 centimeters?
Julie: Right.
Scott: I might be at a hundred and ninety seven and later on might be 200 centimeters
because he’s a big guy.
Julie: Alright, excellent and what else you got? I’ll take the paddles.
Scott: Sure. I brought a life jacket.
Julie: Of course.
Scott: Pretty important safety thing.
Julie: Now this is pretty small life jacket, is it going to keep a person safe?
Scott: Sure is, it’s the same floatation as any normal coast guard recommended life
jacket. It’s just built a little differently, its very, very short so it doesn’t interfere
with your skirt.
Julie: Right or hit the back of the kayak.
Scott: Exactly, it all cut in to the arm pits.
Julie: Its just I’m going to say lots of arm movement?
Scott: Exactly, beam motion.
Julie: Oh its pretty thick, lots of floatation.
Scott: Lots of floatation and has a little harness system because you spend last time up
side down getting toss drown free style and you don’t air light jacket riding that.
Julie: Right and speaking of flipping over, you want to stay dry when you’re in the
kayak?
Scott: Yes sure you do. To stay dry, you can wear dry top and this floating thing will
keep up all the water from you. So nice and safe cold water conditions and out of
your boat.
Julie: Right, is this really a dry time, does this keep you actually dry or does it keep you
warm?
Scott: It keeps you actually dry, the latex seals at the neck, the latex seals at the risk will
keep the water out. So you stay warm and comfortable and your boat doesn’t felt
the flyers.
Julie: Excellent, I see you also got a skirt.
Scott: Absolutely, the other thing you need to keep water out of the boat is a skirt,
something to fill the big gaping hole in your boat. So this goes around your waste,
seals next to you.
Julie: Alright. So you could flip over.
Scott: And knock your water in your boat and roll back up.
Julie: In the boat which is I have been waiting for.
Scott: Exactly.
Julie: This is a free style kayak which is cool, I mean it’s so small and it’s got a flat
bottom you were telling me?
Scott: Absolutely. The flat bottom makes a lot of modern free style moves possible.
Julie: Oh yes so we saw the guys before in the segment were sort of literally doing
360’s, round and round.
Scott: Spin like a top, on a fast moving wave and that direction and it’s also squished
down the ends so that it can move in other dimension in a current will.
Julie: Excellent well thank you so much Scott, very, very informative. Please stay with
us because there’s lots more to learn about kayaking when Sweat returns.
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