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Finally someone
showing off. Here's Vincent, taking the middle line, boofing, that's it.
He's a little bit off center, 'cause just left of him, you see a little
V-shaped triangle, that's the lip, the center line, over the rock. |
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And when
hit that line, it's airtiiiiiime, booooffing, all the way down. BIRDY
flieeeeeess. Yeeeeehhaaaaaa.
A little
railgrab would have completed the show, but hey you can't expect all in
once.
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The pickies
of the next two rapids were underexposed, too dark. Lucky me, no pickies,
'cause I stole the show another time, unfortunately not in a positive
sense.
Two 2 meter slides, 1m50 wide, no lines, just take the middle,
have balls, there ain't much you can do.
But halfway
the second drop was a slight curve to the left, the water formed a mushroom
against the outside rock. It looked very much like any paddler taking
this on, was going to hit that rock. But Dirk and Steven passed without
a problem. They didn't touch a thing.
But I calculated, that if I started totally right and boofed left, I could
avoid the mushroom and the rock. Unfortunately I never got there, upright.
Instead I missed the boof and got pinned in the drop. I was pinned vertical,
right up, not a good place to be in. Although my head was out of the water
and I could smile and wave to Steven, waiting in the eddy below. I could
reach out to Michel, our photographer. But I felt water on my knees and
thought the spraydeck had gone loose, so I had to get out of the boat.
I gave my paddle away and Vincent and Michel started pulling me out. But
on the first pull, the boat came loose and of I went ... without paddle.
Lucky surprise,
the spraydeck was still on.
The first drop, no problem, then
the mushroom and the rock, a problem, and over I went taking the last
drop upside down. I was expecting some headbashing but I didn't hit anything.
Then I was thinking, shit I 've got to handroll back up. The first attempt
failed, but I saw Steven in the eddy, so the second try, I grabbed his
little XXX and pulled me up. Héhé, man, wow what a ride.
Just felt like a blooper video scene of "Full on" :-)
I should have kept my mouth shut, criticizing Steven on using a XXX for
steepcreeking, 'cause when I pulled myself up, grabbing his XXX, he just
smiiiiled ...
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