Ouaf... j'ai pas le temps de ecrire ca en francais, ca me prends trops longtemps, allors pour une fois... c'est anglais.
I don't think some of you guys actually understood what you were looking at
There are THREE kayakers in the WORLD that can paddle like this on a wave... and only ONE KAYAK.
It reminds me of the time I had the Fury proto, and I was showing somone in an RPM what it could do. I paddled to the edge of the hole, and spun counter to the natural direction, and paddled out, all pleased withmyself.
They said so what? I can do that in my RPM!
Look again... Back to the hole, spun against the current, on the green section and back out.
Still didnòt get it. it was MUCH too sublte for him to understand (actually, about 5 people in the eddy said so what??) But ONE guy there got it. He suddelny realised, tried to do it in his Kinteic, was unable to, tried the Fury and did it. ONE guy in the eddy got it.
Same thing happened when I was doing Blunts... People just looked at it and said 'so its a retendo with some speed. So what'.
Look again... its subtle, ut it IS different. Its on the green. its a blunt, not a retendo. 90% of people just didnòt have the ability to see the subtle, but very massive differance between a Retendo and a blunt. Today, its obvious. its obvious that a flat hull is very different from a round one, and a blunt is very different from a retendo. But back then, like here today, 90% of people said 'Yawn' or 'big deal' or 'seen it 100 times'.
Trust me... you havn't. It took me two months of paddling that boat to learn how to do that. And it took Daniel Herzig about three weeks to learn it from me. I donòt care who you are... there isn't another paddler in another boat that can do that on a river... YET.
But there will be as soon as people get in this boat and learn how to use it...
The differance between the squastail and any other playboat on the market, is as subtle, but as important as the differance bewteen the Hammer and the RPM.
Those that don't get it, well, they just don't get it. And those that do, well their reaction has been clear. They are beyond belief with excitement to try it themselves!
I'm so eager to learn more. We are, with this boat, in the equivelent position of what the clean spin is to planing hulls - we have seen the light, smelled the possibilities of a totally new way of paddling, but now comes the fun of relearnihng all over again, and opening new frontiers.
Anyway, like I said... you understood it or you didn't... I will never be able to explain it to you if you don't understand because nothing I say will change that, and those that understood it... well, they understood!
Corran