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I am elated to share with you all the some early details on our new Liquidlogic pleasure craft, the Braaap. Shane and I put our best and brightest ideas together to create the ultimate short race boat using characteristics derived from the new age Olympic Slalom kayaks among other things. This is a peak performance […]
Author: Shane Benedict
Sneak Peak at the Liquidlogic Braaap!
April 2nd, 2015
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Posted in Company News
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Tagged Braaap, liquid logic, liquidlogic, Pat Keller, Racing, Shane Benedict, whitewater kayaking
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Big Mountain Kayak Sledding
February 27th, 2015
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Posted in Company News
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Tagged Flying Squirrel, liquid logic, liquidlogic, Pat Keller, snow kayaking
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The Asheville home team went out for some kayak fun in the snow! There was high speed action and just enough carnage to make it exciting. It didn’t hurt that it was foggy to make it more ominous, scary, and downright sketchball. Yes there was carnage! Here are a few shots and a video down […]
How to Rock Spin in your Kayak
February 21st, 2015
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Posted in Company News, Instruction / Tech Tips, Shaneslogic
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Tagged kayak instruction, liquid logic, liquidlogic, Pat Keller, tech tips, whitewater kayaking
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Rock Spins add play all the way down the river, while helping you become more comfortable dealing with rocks. The basic gist of the move is: drive your kayak up on a rock until you can balance, use a sweep stroke and torso rotation to whip the kayak around and then slide off under control. […]
Lil’ A calls me Dad and now I have to let her go
I met Adriene when she was a rowdy young teenager at World Class Kayak Academy. Her outrageous passion and desire for kayaking and adventure clubbed me over the head immediately. She giggled and screamed at the top of her lungs with every success and failure when she was just starting in her paddling career. To say […]
Ricochet Technique with Pat Keller
January 28th, 2015
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Posted in Company News, Instruction / Tech Tips
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Tagged instruction, kayak, liquid logic, liquidlogic, Pat Keller, whitewater
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An untalked about move that can take your paddling up a level is the Ricochet: using rocks while working your way down the river. Rather than trying to dodge rocks or just boof over them, use them to your advantage to style a change in direction. Pat likes to Ricochet in two distinct ways. The […]
Day 3: The First Taste of Big Water
January 9th, 2015
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Posted in Company News
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Tagged Colorado River, Expedition, Grand Canyon, liquid logic, liquidlogic, Remix XP, Stinger XP
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Day three starts off fairly mellow. There are a few nice surf waves but not a ton of rapids. They will run into the confluence with the Little Colorado River fairly early depending on how quickly they got off the beach this morning. The Little Colorado is another feature that many paddlers have seen in […]
Day 2: Into the Grand Canyon
January 8th, 2015
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Posted in Company News, Expedition, Shaneslogic
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Tagged Colorado River, Expedition, liquid logic, liquidlogic, Remix XP, Stinger XP
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Well it looks like the weather let up for them and it is definitely warmer than yesterday morning, still sub freezing but a hell of a lot better than the teens. There were a couple great shots sent in from Woody and Gareth Tate of the launch morning. Today they start at mile marker 20.7 […]
Woody’s 7th Straight Grand Canyon Self Support Kayak Trip
January 7th, 2015
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Posted in Company News, Expedition, Shaneslogic
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Tagged Colorado River, Grand Canyon, liquid logic, liquidlogic, Remix XP, Self Support, Stinger XP
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It’s day one of Woody’s annual self support trip through the Grand Canyon. This will be his 7th straight trip in the winter, brrr. After this year he will have done more than 1500 miles of self support kayaking in the Canyon. I don’t think there are many people that are a part of that select […]
Linville Gorge: Falls to the Lake
December 2nd, 2014
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Posted in Company News, Shaneslogic
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Tagged Flying Squirrel, linville gorge, linville river, liquid logic, liquidlogic
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Sometimes you are so excited about a trip that you forget the little details, like that paddling from Linville Falls to Lake James on is 17 miles of fairly continuous class 4 and 5 ending with several miles of meandering braided flat water. I mean, you know it’s going to be a long day and […]
Legacy Paddlesports Hosts the Merger of Three WNC Conservation Groups
November 21st, 2014
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Posted in Company News
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Tagged conservation, eco, environmental, jmca, legacy paddlesports, liquid logic, liquidlogic, wnca
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Thursday November 20, 2014 Last night we were lucky enough to host three regional environmental groups, the Western North Carolina Alliance (WNCA), Environmental and Conservation Organization (ECO), and the Jackson-Macon Conservation Alliance (JMCA) for WNCA’s annual meeting and also for the three organizations to vote on their merger into a single organization named Mountaintrue, to serve […]