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Show The Salt Lake Tribune OUTDOORS Tuesday, June 13, 2000 Kayaks: Explosive Growth, Change release one newka they’re releasing s @ Continued from C-1 boat, a large, round.hulled vessel for running tough rapids: a squirt Serious kayakers now need a “quiver”of boats to stay on top of the sport. Park City boat, which is wafer thin, or “slicey,” at the bow and stern so that the boat gets vertical in the current; a fiberglass racingboat; a ertced afull-scale revolution, all for newrodeo boat; and an old rodeo the sake of playing on theriver as boat, which serves as a good allaround kayakthese days. “These boats change the way thing are done. They are more user-friendly,” said Mills while watching rodeo kayakers pull stunts at Taggart Falls during the recentpaddlefestival. opposed to merely runningthe current. Boats are shorter, displace- ments are much smaller, and the bottomsareflatter. “Kayaksare going berserk,” said Perception’s Burbidge. “They are making leaps and bounds in design. It's way more that the shaped ski. That pales in comparison with what’s going’on her Some say ‘ahitewatee kayakingis second only to snowboarding in Mills won the downriver race, paddling the six-mile stretch from Heneferto Taggart Falls in 44 min- utes, 32 seconds.In theslalomrace, Mills came in second behind growth.Driving that growth is a recent revolution in hull design that has madedoing tricks, such as wave sarfing, squirts and spins, much easier, according to industry representatives. “Whitewatersport is exploding,” said Rich Bowers, executive director of American Whitewater, a advocacy group. “It's one of the hottest humanpoweredsportsout there.” Thereare 1.3 million whitewater kayakers in the United States, 40,000 of whom can be considered “enthusiasts, he estimated. “You have solitude and wildernéss on the one hand and excitementonthe other,” Bowerssaid.“It can be enjoyed by any one at any former U.S. kayak team member Jo-Anne Lee, who enjoyed a clean run through the 16-gate course at a spot called the Rock Garden. Sla- Brian Maffly/The Salt Lake Tribune KayakerAmirStark sinks his stern during a recent rodeo competition on the WeberRiver. said Carlson, who operates Gravity Paddle Sports, a kayaking guiding are too Slow and don’t track. The down-river skills are disappearing. and instruction business.“It allows Park and play is a growing phenomenon.” Promising play spots nearSalt you to do more three-dimensional Jom racers are docked time for missing andtouching gates, some of which have to be entered paddling upstream. Thanks to the dry winter and resulting low waterlevels in Echo moves.” Just like the inventionofthe tele- Lake City are at Croydon and Tagphone and e-mail have. forever gart on the popular Weber run bechanged the way we communicate low Henefer and at Bridal Veil on by makingit easier and more conve- the Provo River. This trend in the nient, so too have recent technical sport is akin to snowboaders innovations in boating and climbing Reservoir,flows in the Weber were a meager 250 cubic feet per second (cfs) during last month’s’ festival, The Luddites among us, meanwhile, The hydraulic at Taggart .was barely strong enough to allow it’s done right, it doesn’t even leave protection. other words, playboating and halfpipes. cross the great divide that footprints.” Kayaks for Play: Manyof today’s separates sport from utility. Kayakbuilders followed innovaInnovation, meanwhile, is- al“tions in surfboards to comeup with rodeo boats are too small and and boats that “plane,” riding.on top of sharply angled to be used for other lowing morepeople fo get into kayakingandto do different things ona the water es init, according thantricks. “A lot of the play boats aren’t river, to Carlson of er, one of about “People can progress faster than half a dozen manufacturersleading much fun for river running,” said Rob Heineman, a Salt Lake City de- they could in the past,” said Carlthe hull revolution. “The idea is your boat will lift fense attorney who is president of son. “It started four years ago. Back andplane. It hasverylittle friction,” the Utah Whitewater Club. “They then, manufacturers would WONDERFUL NATURE GIFT IDEAS FOR DAD. skilled freestyle boatersto. stagea , rodeo competition. In rodeo, the Ht marks an radical departure may lament the erosion of tradi- from the roots of these sports, which were bornfrom the need to readinga river andsetting climbing get from one place to another. In tional skills, such as letter writing, water sports version of acrobatic freestyle skiing, athletes get 30 seconds to ride a hydraulic “hole” in the river, using its energy to make the boat dance. upriver and wowed the crowd at Taggart by harnessing the current with just his body movements and hands. Randy Nate wonthe rodeo, with Matt Forsgren and Carlson alsoactivein several other formsof Enhances Awareness aerobics, manyofwhich have never given her the widerange of benefits yoga provides. “Tt gives you more ability and strength,” she said. “Withyoga. you really start feeling howstrong you @ Continued from C-1 are and yoga gives youthat focus to look into what your body does,” she said, adding that runners take her classes because yoga helps themwiththeir breathing. Denise Loizeaus, a former high it’s a lot ofdifferent muscles youneverstretch, even in aerobics and sports,” But yoga is more thanjust mus: cle work about incorporating the mind, bodyandspirit intooverane andenergy-inspiring “When we dodifferent twists, it buff, finds, yoga supplements her takes and helps with the digestion otheractivities. and elimination in the internal or- “T’ve been taking yoga for eight monthshere andit was something newwhenI started.” Loizeaussaid. “T get the complete bodystretch — but it is in no way a replacement gans,” said Dean Campbell, owner of Yoga Central. “It works on-the respiratory system and it also works on the nervous and endocrine systems, creating a balancea senseofcalm and peace.” LN Show Dad how muchyou care. Betteryet,tell him. BYU USsU } | Loizeaus said that shenot only playedsoftball and soccer, but she is for myotherexercises. taking secondandthird: Collegiate ~ ; kg ie. Yoga schoolathlete and currentexercise Corey Volt, a 16-year-old hotdog from Ogden, chucked his paddle Bird Houses & Feeders UofU | StephanSavoia/TheAssociated Press New England Patrots injured linebacker Ted Johnson smiles as he stretches before the start of practice in Foxboro, Mass., in this Oct. 20, 1999 photo. Johnson has been taking yoga classes to increase his flexibility after two injury-plagued seasons. illustrating whysome call the river. the Mighty Dweeber. watching eachother runningtricks wrought changes in those sports. downa halfpipeoroff a kicker. lével. As boating grows, it’s going to have more impact on the resource. If ' photographer Tom Mills, whois strictly a whitewater boater, uses five kayaks: a creek everr-have recognized the vessels they are hawking today. Around 1997, river boat hull designs experi- Maryland-based a year. Now year, just for whitewater. 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