As a kayaker/film producer I have been striving to produce professional whitewater kayaking videos, improve my editing, and my filming. These are some of my best shots from the past couple seasons.
Thanks to all kayakers in here for producing good lines to film.
Filming and Editing by Fred Norquist
Shot on Canon 7D & GoPro HD
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The Palguin river runs off the flanks of Volcan Villarrica, there fore it almost always has a runnable flow. Being summer time rats here in the small town of Pucon this fits perfectly into out busy agenda. Only 20-30 minuets from downtown this river offers close reliable class IV-VI rapids for us to run whenever we want. 8am-9pm there is enough light to head to the Palguin and either run fun class IV boofs or go huge off 40-80 foot stouts! What more can you ask for?
This season the water was prime when we arrived, but has been on a steady decline from day one. This has made for a mad dash to get all the runs and levels opportunities we can in a short amount of time. Once we were warmed up with a few Nevado runs we went straight to the Middle Palguin for some test dummy action. Good lines through Stout 10 and varying lines off the big one…Aniol and I went back up for round 2! A good day of hucking for sure…a few days later Aniol was feeling Salto Palguin so we went back for a Todo Palguin! Aniol laced the stout and we went on to run the entire river with only 2 portages.
This year Chile has been better and more sweet than ever before! Coming off a bad bad injury from a fall I took in Africa I was on the couch for a full month and a half. It’s funny how time and your personal happiness can connect in curtain ways. When you are happy time flies! When you’re not time can creep by! That’s just how the human mind works at times. Therefore when I arrived fresh out of my walking boot, I was nervous to see how I would do and so excited to get back in my boat!
First day off the plane I was greeted by Anton, Ian, and my Dad in Santiago. We loaded up Ian’s new truck and drove straight to the Rio Claro. Finding the level was still super high my nerves set in big time knowing we were gonna drop into the Garganta Del Diablo canyon and run the Twirly Bird at high flows. I felt a bit bobbly in my boat, but after the first few class V drops I was back in my element feeling good as ever.
There it is installment number 1 of the BFTV episodes. Hope you enjoyed watching and stayed tuned for part #2 Patagonia! Couldn’t fit all the epicness in one movie. Share this movie, tell your friends, put it on facebook, twitter, let the world know about Bomb Flow TV…
Later E.G.
So here it is we have been working on trying to get something like this together for a long time now! We have gone through many ideas and failed at a few, but we have finally hatched something of worth I believe!!!!!
Bomb Flow TV will be Fred Norquist and Myself’s newest project. BFTV will be a Bi-weekly edit coming to you on bombflow.com, Facebook, and this blog for free for your enjoyment! All of our latest Chile video will be featured in the next few issues so keep your eye on the prize and get ready for some serious kayaking content coming your way! Fred was rad enough to get this thing started and put together the first video, which is the trailer, showing what this Bomb Flow biz is all about. Check it out!!!!!!
Hope you guys enjoy the small teaser of what’s to come in the future…If all goes well we will be rolling in the cash and straight on our way to Hollywood…Shotgun!!!!
Later E.G.
