Sea Kayaking: A Different Kind of Race | National Geographic

Typically, sea kayakers dream of calm waters and soft tailwinds. It's preferable to navigate around waves and whirlpools. A team of young adventure kayakers redraws the sport's horizon by seeking out the sea's most turbulent places, called tidal races, and diving right in.
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Sea Kayaking: A Different Kind of Race | National Geographic
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[@IanSlade1984]

Amazing! This is what I call sea kayaking

[@COMADORK]

LOVED THIS PLEASE DO MORE!!!

[@Wollemiwanderer]

Impressive kayaking!

[@Roman007M]

Amazing! I tried some kayakin in Atlantic Ocean, waves weren't that big at the time it's just super Fun!

[@PawlowskiTHR]

Love it! Beautiful. I'm stoked to film some big whirlpool action at Max ebb Skook soon. Just trying to get some other THR boys into it!

[@orkcooper]

Great to see not all State side paddlers have huge boats with rudders!!( joking) good work guys... Ever looked paddling my homeland, Orkney and the Pentland Firth, North of Scotland? up to 16 KNTS tide recorded here. lots of overfalls.. I would gladly paddle with you guys... :)

[@ALanBushizzle]

awesome

[@EinavRachel]

WooooW

[@siempreafavor730]

Gran vídeo

[@EditGuy6610]

I'm so there!

[@__Wanderer]

awesome =D ^^

[@seacoastkayaker]

Looks like crazy fun, will try to get there next summer

[@Sluggecko]

Hardcore spot!

[@purplefryer1987]

beautiful video and boats love tiderace i got a tahe marine but think a tiderace might be a future purchase

[@jfoz7602]

Epic

[@TheGdevheiman]

Very cool! this makes me want to use my touring kayak in places it's not meant to be. Just for kicks

[@sweetcaroline96]

Amazin

[@lovinlife4ever]

Skookumchuck narrows in BC...this is one of the most famous playboating waves in the world! Must have been hard to find hahaha

[@BiggC514]

I'm not sure how far you guys have to go to get to these races, but it seems like a sweet spot for a playboat, using your sea kayak is just making your life hard.

[@Alexmcgruer3]

Newfoundlands surfers. Bertgs add an eliment where the ocean bottom can come at you from below, they can split from above, rupture and surge sideways. Then there is the normal stuff, Wind Waves sub zero water temperatures, pointy rocks etc.

[@y0seph12]

Some of those waves with no pile at all would not be surfable in a playboat, and others probably not. You also have to factor in that there is a long paddle out to these places.

[@fishingbanditsilva8257]

Well I thought I was gonna die on my second time out on my Hobie Compass out in Palos Verdes California didn't know if I was gonna get out the currents 😭 God bless these crazy guys hope they have fun.

[@joethi4981]

What happened?

[@MrEDDFire]

is this the song from little big planet? btw awesome vid!! keep it up :D

[@Alexmcgruer3]

I am sure the boat could handle the pounding but I know there are places my Capella's hull speed can't keep up with the water flow. The Exxplorer is a bit better. I know my smaller boats could go through it but surf those long not steep high speed waves. I know my T Slalom couldn't , perhaps a larger flat presentation of a surf built kayak could.

[@oShytt]

sweet

[@davidpalmer8328]

A good video, however, too many image changes, it looks like TV

[@paulandre89]

nice video ! why u guy dont paddle a whitewater boat ! awesome spot where is it

[@lovinlife4ever]

Skookumchuck narrows...one of the most famous play boating waves in the world

[@gbenzon]

Hull speed is completely irrelevant once you've caught a wave and are planing, whether it's a playboat or a sea kayak. You're way above hull speed then. It's pretty easy to catch a wave in any sea kayak, including a Capella. Keeping the boat going straight and upright is a whole different story.

[@BenTheWierdo]

@PigLvl3 this is awesome

[@kayakman9845]

very brave but dangerous too

[@SideSwipez77]

i wanna see these guys try the Congo river on for size. That'll ought to make them rethink their careers.

[@CruisingTube]

What kayaks are they using?

[@cheskybaba4864]

Sea Kayaks.

[@SeadartVSG]

Where is the haystack at 1:38???

[@penguinchris796]

Sea Kayaking Fuck Yeah!

[@shaunduke7064]

mint, I would love to give it a try,but then again I would die 😎

[@nash002300]

can you tell me the music on the last part? i kinda like it =) what title?

[@Thermagicalwonders]

You have to be crazy to do some thing like this in risky waters.

[@eldril1009]

yeah playboat ftw

[@Alexmcgruer3]

Speed... Not sure a play boat would have the hull speed for some of this stuff. Other spots a play boat rules, normal surfing for example.

[@Ievolovel]

2:57 The noble fisherman. Just for being him he should receive half the worlds riches.

[@conndawg747]

FIRST COMMMENT, and may i be the topped like to say this video is insane and amazing -Thumbs Up if you agree

[@ibstrd]

balls of steel

[@AndreasNV]

1:18 WTF

[@nopseudosleft56]

Bloody 1:30 advert before the video!!! way too long!!! You should be able to skip it after 10 secs or something!!

[@studebaker4217]

I hope nobody who might think of trying sea kayaking are not put off by this film. Many enjoy sea kayaking with skills nowhere near this kind of water state, me included.

[@gomercindodasilvacorrea1316]

E agora broder

[@gomercindodasilvacorrea1316]

Túnel do tempo,

[@YouSirAreNoob]

he looks and sounds like Mike Portnoy from Dream Theater

[@paulkuthe886]

Wish I could play drums half as well as him. ;)

[@ali_films]

1 person didn't make it through kayaking ... oh wait, that doesn't make sense..

[@onesagotoomany]

Why on earth would you playboat in a sea kayak? Get a freestyle boat. Sea kayaks are long and keeled for distance.

[@paulkuthe886]

Been there done that. Try paddling a whitewater boat to some of these places and you'd spend your entire day just getting there. Plus... Why not challenge yourself? Also... When you pop an ender in a 16 foot boat or start throwing ends it's a really cool sensation. Give it a try! If you can control a long boat on the wave short boats become easy.

[@Codlipps]

I would shit a brick 😀

[@damagnan]

Three people shouldn't have started watching in the first place.

[@kuloodporna]

4 people dont like kayaks......fuck them;)

[@NEWjafan12]

Why wont you let me watch your Are We Alone video?!?!

[@TomCelar]

damn... i want nature videos .... not these

[@Aleadergear]

Amazing! This is what I call sea kayaking