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> Mini Bus, Ottawa River, Ontario
Patrick camblin
the 2004 Big Gun show winner and 2005’s Best Freestyle Kayaker as
voted by his peers, Patrick Camblin helped lead the way from old school
to new school. As the Ottawa River’s first favourite son, World Champion
Ken Whiting says Camblin “was the changing of the guard. When holes
changed to waves he was leading the revolution.” how did he get so
good? In the summer of ‘99 when Camblin when was just 16 years old, he
and a group who called themselves the Island Boyz camped on the banks
of the Ottawa River.
“We’d just go surfing like eight hours a day, most of the time on Corner
Wave, every day, all day, all summer. they were good times,” Camblin
recalls. “I’ve spent the last eight years searching out the best waves the
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world has to offer, but as an all-around experience, it just doesn’t get any
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better than Mini Bus at 16 and a quarter.”
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Brave Wave,
Zambezi #11 Steamer Lane
top Wave and
Livingstone, santa CruZ,
Braver Wave
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roCk isLand state Park,
Arguably the best big whitewater on the not for chrubees or zaboobs, kayakers are
tennessee
planet, few, if any rivers rival south Africa’s welcome here if you’ve earned your wings. Rock Island state Park in tennessee is home
Zambezi. the 11th rapid, known as Overland- home to the santa Cruz Kayak surf Festival to a wicked mile-long stretch of class II to
truck eater to the locals, is the mother of and right in former u.s. Kayak surf team class IV+, including three park-and-play
them all and the wave where pro paddling paddler ed Martinez’s backyard, it’s a place spots that are a favourite training ground
legend steve Fisher continues to innovate. he calls “the best surf spot in the world.” the of four-time World Freestyle Champion eric
he tags it as his preferred surf wave, but it’s waves in steamer lane average more than 15 Jackson. Brave Wave, Braver Wave and top
infrequent, appearing twice a year for about feet and can top out at 40 feet. locals advise Wave helped hone the most prolific freestyle
two weeks just after the new year and in early you earn a reputation a little further down the champion the sport has known and although
July. this phenomenon creates the perfect road at Cowell’s or Capitola Beach before he says they are dynamic and tough to set
ocean-like tube when at work and a nasty taking your chances with steamers’ towering up moves on, master your surf here, and the
hole when at rest. waves and the skeptical boarders. world is yours.
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