Paddling Industry News
Paddling’s latest news and product reviews. Paddling Life keeps you informed on what’s new in the paddling industry. From new product launches, paddling trade shows, company mergers, advances in paddling technology, and more – Paddling Life is here to inform you.
Athlete Stories
Jimmy Blakeney on TAHE’s Acquisition of BIC Sport
Last year, after more than 40 years as a French-made watersports icon, BIC Sport merged with Tahe Outdoors to become a new brand, TAHE,...
Paddling Industry News
Hellooh 2022: Slew of Acquisitions Lead to Changing Face of Paddlesports
In the past few years, there’s been a changing of the guard of sorts in the paddlesports sector, with new CEOs and companies behind...
Paddling Industry News
American WW Year-end Wrap!
Let's put it this way: If the nonprofit was an MMA fighter, it'd be fighting up a class or two... As American Whitewater ED Mark...
Canoeing
Watersports Up: Johnson Outdoors Reports Record Sales, Earnings for 2021
Racine, Wisc.’s Johnson Outdoors Inc., owner of Old Town Canoe, announced higher revenue and earnings for the fiscal year ending October 1, 2021. Continued...
Accessories
Mustang Survival Acquires Stearns’ Government and Commercial Business
Continuing its recent buying spree, including its purchases of Ocean Rodeo and MTI Adventurewear, Mustang Survival has announced the acquisition of the Government and...
Inflatables
Level Six Introduces 3 New Whitewater Specific Boards for 2022
According to Level Six COO Kevin Cook, “We have had quite a few people ask us over the years for a whitewater specific board...
Inflatables
Inside AIRE’s Outcast Sporting Gear (OSG)
Want whitewater-worthy beefiness with your fishing craft package? Look no further than AIRE’s sister company, Outcast, designed to offer just that, bringing the company’s...
Apparel
Testing the Level 6 Australis
Want a sweet-looking and performing shortie for warm water/weather paddling? Look no further than the Australis from Level 6, a short-sleeve semi-dry top constructed...
Events
2022 Big Gear Show Update
It’s back. The Big Gear Show, which held its inaugural trade event at Park City, Utah’s Deer Valley Resort in August, will hold its...
Inflatables
Advanced Elements Launches New Packlite+ Packraft Series
Advanced Elements, a longtime maker of drop-stitch construction inflatable kayaks, has launched into the packraft market with its new Packlite+ Packraft Series. “What makes them...
Paddling Gear
Sneak Peak: Bent Shaft, 4-Piece Breakdown from Aqua-Bound; Bonus: Beyond the Paddle Vid!
Aqua-Bound (and sister company Bending Branches) consists of a tight knit group of more than three-dozen dedicated paddlers that walk through a factory door each day...
Paddling Industry News
PL Q&A: Solo Stove’s CEO John Merris Discusses Acquisition of Oru Kayak, ISLE SUPs
There’s a new paddlesports conglomerate in town, built by fire. Southlake, Texas’s Solo Stove has been lighting a fire under fire pit and campstove sales...
Paddling Industry News
Largest SUP Accident in the World? 4 Dead in Wales
Perhaps the biggest SUP accident in the world unfolded in Wales on Oct. 30 when four standup paddleboarders died on the flooded Cleddau River...
Evergreen
Inside AIRE Environmental
Sure, AIRE makes awesome inflatable craft for everything from whitewater and touring to fishing. But did you know that it also has a sister...
Kayak Fishing
Three SOTs from Pelican
While Pelican Sports might have recently acquired Confluence and its coveted watersports brands, including Dagger, Perception, Wilderness Systems, Mad River and more, that hasn’t...
Apparel
Inside Level6’s Duke Drytop (with Video Walkthrough!)
Our friends up in the great white north have been working on a three-season drytop the past few years and the updated 2021 Duke...
Inflatables
Testing the AIRE Sabertooth
Want to sink your teeth into the perfect R2ing rafting machine? Try the new frameless AIRE Sabertooth, suitable for everything from kids to Class V…
Apparel
NRS Inks Deal to Use Gore-tex
Northwest River Supplies (NRS) has inked a deal with Gore-tex to bring the high-end waterproof/breathable fabric into a new drywear line. Previously, W.L. Gore...
Paddling Industry News
360 Adventure Collective Announces Dates for 2022 Paddlesports Experience
The 360 Adventure Collective (Formerly EORA / NESR) has earned more than 40 years of success connecting the most comprehensive offerings in outdoor apparel,...
Paddling Industry News
Senators Bennet (CO), Romney (UT) Raft Colorado
A pair of U.S. senators — a Democrat and a Republican — jump in a raft and head down river...It sounds like a lead-in...
Athlete Stories
Hydrus SUP Co-founder Nicholas Zawadzki Dies Paddleboarding Payette
Nicholas Zawadzki, 36, co-owner and co-founder of whitewater paddleboard company Hydrus Board Tech, died on Monday, Aug. 9, following "a complete freak and unexpected accident"...
Paddling Industry News
OARS Launches “Cathedral in the Desert” Dory Down the Grand on its Inaugural Voyage
Family-owned and operated river running outfitter OARS launched its newest dory, Cathedral in the Desert, on its inaugural run on the Colorado River through...
Accessories
A PL Q&A with Mustang Survival’s Josh Horoshok
Forget singing that catchy little song "Mustang Sally" by the Committments. Established in 1967 by Irv Davies, the inventor of the world’s first Floater...
Paddling Industry News
Catching Up With Former Pro Boater Luke Hopkins on BG’s New Tandem SUP, Built for the Pandemic
For Body Glove, Nautica and Spyder licensee Surf 9—whose 45 employees are based in Benita Springs, FL, including 10 added in just the past...
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Jimmy Blakeney on TAHE’s Acquisition of BIC Sport
Last year, after more than 40 years as a French-made watersports icon, BIC Sport merged with Tahe Outdoors to...
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6 Days/6 Rivers: A Costa Rican Kayaking Odyssey with Amazing Vacations
“Buenas Lineas,” says our guide Arnaldo Cespedes. “Good lines.”
We just finished scouting a Class IV rapid called Robin Hood...
2021 Photo Contest Entries Are In
2021 Photo Contest Entries
2021 was a great year to get out and paddle. Check out some of the incredible...
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Hellooh 2022: Slew of Acquisitions Lead to Changing Face of Paddlesports
In the past few years, there’s been a changing...
Inside AIRE’s Outcast Sporting Gear (OSG)
Want whitewater-worthy beefiness with your fishing craft package? Look...
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The Paddling Life: Let My Children Raft!
Call my wife and I hippy home-schoolers if you will, but with apologies to my daughter’s second-grade teacher, Mrs. Stoddard, there’s no better instructor than the Great Outdoors. Which is why it's odd that board members from Meredith, N.H.’s Inter-Lake School District objected to an Outing Club-sponsored rafting trip for students on the Dead River...
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