What`s your favorite all time paddling video clip?
Here`s Mine..
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Submitted by fuzerider on Mon, 03/24/2008 - 3:51am
What`s your favorite all time paddling video clip?
Here`s Mine..
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Submitted by fuzerider on Mon, 03/24/2008 - 3:51am
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Fuze, you just love that video 'cause it features your favorite song in the world "It's Rainin' Men".
#1 Mon, 03/24/2008 - 4:13am
Don`t tell anyone else.
http://maineoutriggerchampionships.blogspot.com/
#2 Mon, 03/24/2008 - 4:17am
For that video the song should be "It's rainin' girls w/ bigger guns than the men". Holey Moley!
#3 Mon, 03/24/2008 - 4:39am
Amazing technique.
#4 Mon, 03/24/2008 - 7:37am
I'd say the video Luke, Keizo, and Kelly did was the best I've ever seen for oc-1. Maybe someone can post a link.
#5 Mon, 03/24/2008 - 10:40am
Kimo, check the videos section...
http://www.ocpaddler.com/videos
Also, I think Rambo posted a short clip of an OC-6 catching/riding an epic wave a while back that was pretty cool.
#6 Mon, 03/24/2008 - 12:04pm
the coolest part about fuzie's video is that in the last clip of the K4, one of the guys actually snaps a carbon paddle. fricken bad ass.
my herniated disk started tweaking just looking at the C1/2/4 guys though.
#7 Mon, 03/24/2008 - 3:49pm
it is very impressive what those incredible athletes accomplish but ill take free paddling my oc1 all day long.
#8 Mon, 03/24/2008 - 10:54pm
Wow. Itay? What a venue. Really inspirational. How amazing to be there on the podium. If there was a medal for effort, I would be up there, but I just was not born with the physical gift. My wifes brother is training for 09 rowing. His dad is an olympian. So exciting to see. It is a gift though, metal and physical.
It is pretty amazing when you realize how high up the pyramid these people are. You may be the best in your club, but there are so many strata of "best"...it is something to see when the genes, effort and technique come together perfectly.
Thanks for the clip. I think we will see better and better oc-1 compliations...a lot of great peices...My favorite is Luke's footage surfing the oc-1 "on the water"
#9 Wed, 03/26/2008 - 2:01am
It is fun to go out with rambo in some big surf...I dont know what I would do if I was thrown in that, probably just jump off and pull my life vest, LOL...no surf like that in southern california. Some day! Thanks for making the vids.
#10 Wed, 03/26/2008 - 2:02am
The love of your sport a passion for excercise and competition goes a long way to getting you where you want to be in your sport. Sometimes fate plays a pretty big part too . Lance Armstrong is a huge example. Greg Lemond took up cycling to strengthen his legs for freestyle skiing because that was the sport he was into at the time.
I know lots of paddlers who are paddlers because they have a bad knee or ankle , hip whatever.
I`m a paddler because I am deformed, I have an upperbody like Rambos avatar and legs like the road runner.
You will get really good if you are willing to do the hard work and have the right coaching .
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#11 Wed, 03/26/2008 - 3:17am
That genes/gifted thing is way overrated. Sure, some things like VO2 max seem to have a genetic component, and it's prolly good to have long arms and a huge back, but if you look at the numbers, most of these people are fairly average in size. There's some tall guys but it sure ain't basketball. It pretty much boils down to years and years of hardwork, and being surrounded by the right coaches and mentors etc. I'm sure there's some "optimum" physique, but there's probably guys who don't fit the mold, too. As for outrigger, well, it's hard for me to think of a sport where genes play less of a role.
#12 Wed, 03/26/2008 - 5:52am
If you `re a horse and you want to win the Kentucky Derby you had be pretty care full how you pick your parents.
On the other hand there are plenty of people walking around who were gifted at birth and have chosen to smoke a couple of packs a day.
What matters is what you do with the talents you have.
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#13 Wed, 03/26/2008 - 5:32am
Humans don't have near the genetic diversity of horses, fuze. Modern horses have been around for millions of years as a species, plenty of time for diversity/different strains etc. to develop, whereas modern human beings have only been around for 100-200 thousand years at the most, with the vast majority of people having an even more recent common ancestor. That being said, I'm sure Derby winners are a pretty inbred group, and even among them it's hard to predict a winner based on parentage. The point is, with the relative lack of genetic diversity among humans, I would argue that genetic factors aren't super important in the development of human athletes. There's probably some dude in Sub-Saharan Africa, the genetic homeland for all modern humans, who has all the genetic paddling gifts, whatever they might be, but he probably won't get a shot at the channel, or even Catalina. Maybe Fuze could send some of those boats down there!
#14 Wed, 03/26/2008 - 6:07am
Just give me the shipping address and I`ll get a container on a ship right away....
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#15 Wed, 03/26/2008 - 7:20am
did somebody say genetic diversity?
#16 Wed, 03/26/2008 - 9:39am
I think the idea of great genetics is throw in my face via my inlaws who have world class athletics on boths side of the family, and from my experience in sports, mostly football and weightlifting. The really gifted players may be the guys who dont practice too hard but they are just freaky tallented, strength, vertical jump, muscle fiber composition...on the field they seem like they are from another planet. Weightlifting is hugly effected by the proportions of your lower to upper legs, the placement of tendon insertions...so if you pec muscle inserts 3/4 of an inch further out on your upper arm etc...they screen out those with great potential in china etc as young kids and it is very obvious who has the gift in some things.
Paddling is probabaly much kinder in many respects. Kelly Foster says on the video that the most important aspect of a good paddler is mental toughness. So maybe I can be on the radar screen for speed and endurance in the 6 foot tall 265lb short armed guy division.
#17 Wed, 03/26/2008 - 11:18am
Yeah, those U.S. rower types are always quite convinced of their own genetic superiority. Luckily for them, they're competing against a limited sample of the overall population. My Grampa was an All-American football player, but that was when only rich white guys played the game.
#18 Wed, 03/26/2008 - 1:09pm