I’m as happy as anyone to see this warmer than normal weather we’re having here in Wisconsin. (Hopefully, we won’t have to pay for it with a colder than normal June and July.)  I do have a serious concern, though, when we start getting these days in the 60’s so early in the season.  Cabin-feverish, [...]

I’ve had this dull, aggravating pain in my right upper arm all summer.  Even after the paddling season ended, it hasn’t gone away.  I was getting really concerned starting to imagine that I may have a bicep tear or some problem with my rotator cuff.  It wasn’t excruciating, so I didn’t want to waste the [...]

I’ve been spending a lot of time recently watching paddling DVD’s and videos.  Perhaps I’m just getting old and cranky, but in one of the whitewater instructional DVD’s students were told to “cock (their) wrist back” on the control hand in order to set the proper blade angle on the non-control blade when using a [...]