I heard that the levels were ideal last weekend; we need less fearful leaders maybe.

It was a good time! Not as sunny as in your video though

"Someone just threw me here, honestly" Is also my go-to response when the people I was paddling with finally find me in the pub.

You know it! 🫳

Half the paddle, twice the man? A couple can be spotted by the observant in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4TRhZSHrdGCnKc But, in general, we've evolved since the troglodyte beginnings and naming of the club.

You'll walk in pain for the rest of your life!

Yep, that was well spotted. The club were there this summer, and it features heavily in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYLXlImFh5ytgq8 It's a really great wave and so close to the campsite

It was a scenic walk-the only reason I decided to get out of the boat!

kzbin.info/www/bejne/p5myhKCEfc5prtU From 3:00 onwards. (Though I come embarrassingly close to getting stuck in the very same hole again...)

Good to hear you enjoyed it! I think good paddlers just seem to glide over features; I think the lite-beatering adds to the immersion. The camera was a GoPro HERO7 Black. Shooting in 1080. I can't recall the frame-rate or other settings offhand, I'll get back to you.

We Dislocated 7 Shoulders, No. 3 Will Make You Go "That's Criminal Negligence" Enjoyed your short of Top Drop on the Moriston btw

Yep, actually rapping it and making a music video could be fun, but the result would be criminally bad. Saw you getting a bit of grief in the North Wales Facebook group for your Town Falls video-I'm glad they haven't seen ours... (kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4rGio2KZ51nmdU)

@@ImperialCollegeCanoeClub yeah I don't think I'm sharing there again

The rhyme scheme is lifted directly from Roll With It, but you're absolutely right it sounds a lot more like Nickelback.

You're welcome! Now that you don't have to train for p*lo anymore, you've freed up time for real paddling with a proper club.

If you want to watch a 1/2-freewheel into attempted shoulder dislocation, you can see that here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4TRhZSHrdGCnKc But I'm afraid that the 1/2-freewheel into swim combo is currently beyond us. I've heard rumours of a gnarlier kayaking channel where that might exist, but I haven't been able to find it myself.

@@ImperialCollegeCanoeClub I think youve gotta give the 1/2-freewheel into swim combo another go.😅

0:43 When that stops doing it for you, I find getting stuck upside down, in a hole, directly above a deadly siphon, really gets that adrenaline pumping! The near death experiences are what we kayak for really!

@@liamdonnelly625 2:51

So, at the higher grades, there's a particular "line" (i.e. "route") that one should follow down the rapid; what distinguishes 4 from 5 (and 6) is how hard it is to follow this route and how bad the consequences are likely to be were you to get "off-line". (Therefore, it's subjective and people will disagree.) Here, it's a bit intense and the moves take a little skill; hitting the right line is a lot more fun, but accidentally ending up somewhere you didn't intend to be isn't all that terrible: for example, the hydraulic "holes" won't hold a swimmer and the rocks aren't dangerously undercut. Probably somewhere in the middle of grade 4. A good heuristic might be: If someone offered you $1000 to swim down the section, would you? If absolutely not, then it's grade 5.

Thank you very much for the nice explanation.

Haha we definitely got a little too close a couple of times here. Danke!

The last person I recall shit-talking a rapid was Emilia-telling me she wasn't scared of the Defereggenbach...

You know what Mike, you're goddamn right! You've inspired us to write a new song: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4TRhZSHrdGCnKc We hope you like it.

Eh I paddle just as badly with a straight shaft tbh. Yeah it's a good run, we only did this section though, maybe the waterfall section's something for the future.

It's on the harder end of the grade-there's a lot of class IV that's easier-but there aren't any especially hard must-make moves (which I think is the distinctive feature of class V). (As you can see, I missed most of the lines and was fine.) That said, was a bit scary paddling it for the first time.

@ImperialCollegeCanoeClub Manu thanks for ur answer bru

I've heard that sometimes people get so feregged on this section that they end up getting taken to Lienz hospital by air ambulance...

I wouldn't be so critical of others if I were you, it's only a matter of time until the Soča Cataract video drops.

It's a great section, beautiful setting also-though you don't get much time to look around. Enjoyed watching your video on the Soča Abseilstecke btw.

Thanks for leading! (Even if insisted on beatering relentlessly and missing all the lines anyway)

Thank you, but the person editing this video is just very (and I mean very) unemployed.

Thanks for that! Haha I'm sure an actual videography student wouldn't be impressed (we're all in STEM), but yeah that was the idea-I think that the tempo is high enough that even when it's not quite right the cuts sort of work as syncopated offbeats

It's the simple things in life, and sometimes that's just standing on a bridge watching five people paddle into the same slot, one after another.

He's good; he just learned a valuable lesson about not blindly paddling off massive horizon lines in a playboat.

"This video is incomplete; you can help by expanding it."

You'd hope so with the massive blades on those carbon werners-one really wouldn't want to fall into a slot with them, they might get scratched.

Thanks! Good to be able to showcase some of these beautiful remote places-we wouldn't have been able to point to the country on a map at the start of the year. Keep after those trout.

FR FR-y'all not ready for the full album to drop ‼🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🏊‍♂

Swimming there would be inadvisable at any rate...