Playak News Watch: Range Life: On relevance, style, semantics & carnage: Filled attempts

As luck would have it, neither rain nor sunshiny heat would hit the Island in time to justify our intended departure. So the Mainland would have to suffice in the meantime. We could always just blast over to the Island for a quickie if flows cooperated.

Interesting read, and some even more interesting comments at the end... Similar to the AW Cutting Edge debates a while back.

I would vote The Range Life as my favourite kayaking blog on earth, no doubt about it. I give it more than the double thumbs up. World class photos, well written and good quality drops being run. I know no other that can compete. Except for Jefferson State Creeking by Darin McQuoid, which also has incredible photos... Good to see high quality stuff on the net!

Yep, that was an excellent story.

Adrian, do you think,that middle class and ghetto language mix well ?

Hahaha... Semantics ey Petteri? I don't care much for it. Doesn't seem to blend too well but the way people live these days and the backgrounds they come from and the environment that is shaping them (and us) seems to dictate a lot and I guess it's each to his/her own... The 'rules' are falling by the wayside it seems..

I've never seen so many comments on a blog before. I've been checking it via an RSS feed and the last comment was pretty interesting:

"For all those offended: You would only be offended if you take yourself too seriously. Lesson: Don't take yourself so seriously.

And I can't believe any of you would say these guys haven't run the shooshoo. Sorry, but running the "stouts" 70 footer 1000 times in a row when someone else did all the legwork is nowhere near as impressive as rapping in and out of a scary dark crack in the earth day after day before even dropping in, and then finally reaping the rewards. Showing up after the buzz and running the shit is only part of the equation. And it is about more than stroking the ego and running big stuff. Unless you plan on dying at age 45.

Which brings us to the point that life is more than kayaking. It sure is good, but if you don't plan your future, and incorporate dynamic change into your life such as education, career, family, and spirit, it doesn't matter how high you ran the middle kings last year, or how many words you make up to describe the sickness of your crew. Life will eventually seem stale and one dimensional.

So don't hate on TG for doing some inner and outer reflecting on both himself and the paddling community. We are all guilty of making the claim. It is being aware of that and being OK with the our imperfections and quirks that make it all of the sudden just another funny conversation, and less of an afrontal to our egos."