At heart I guess I'm still a whitewater kayaker. This morning I did a search of Google Video for some kayak eye candy and the only ones which caught my interest were the extreme whitewater videos. Actually I'm posting this video for my young coworker who seems to have drifted down the wrong road in life. Last week we had a chat about how he needed to find more appropriate "hobbies" and my suggestion was that he take up whitewater kayaking. The Washington, DC area happens to be a training ground for Olympic whitewater kayakers so we have some of the best instruction in the country. There is also a new man-made whitewater river/playspot opening up in McHenry, Maryland this month. This man-made river is shaped like a donut which solves one of the constraints of whitewater kayaking ... the shuttle. It also features hydraulic boulders and river features which can change the rating of the course from Class I to Class IV in less than 20 minutes. If he resists ... I might have to drag him up to class myself.

-Susanita