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There is a season just beyond the horizon where the talents of kayakers and lip hair farmers join forces to become one big idiotic mess all over the internet. This season is known as the Curt Davis Invitational Mustache Growing Contest of Paddlesports. This year IR has title sponsored the event to bring you The Mustache King 2008. As title sponsor IR will be providing their top-of-the-line DoubleD drysuit to 1st place as the grand prize. Yip, you read correctly. All you gotta do is grow a stache and you will be styling it up dry as a bone in a brand new drysuit. Check out the video for a little motivation.

Remember, only a mustache demands respect and is truly rewarded.

Enter while there’s still time. Visit TheMustacheKing.com

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I think we all know that this had to be done. Is it embarrassing? Yes. Am I completely humiliated? Not really. Was I proud to have documented such an occasion? Yes. After all, it’s just nature doing what nature does. Please send thank you cards, snacks and money donations to the below address.

With love,
Spencer Cooke, Effort Inc

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Today is May Turd and as an ode to my former “News on the Turds” I give you the Morocco Surf Experience.

Click HERE to see the video, download the podcast, read the journal and live the experience… so to speak.

Our silly crew of surfing chalkies on the beach at Tafadna, Morocco

Joey and I experiencing life in Morocco.

This was incredible kayaking trip for me. I hope you enjoy as much as I did.

Later,

Spencer Cooke, Effort Inc.

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Two new Rapid Transit videos have been posted in the past couple weeks.

1) Cooper Lambla’s second video journal installment from New Zealand. This time, the South Island.
Click to view the video at Cooper’s Rapid Transit Library
Cooper drops into a huge rapid at Nevis Bluff

2) I did indeed attend the 4th annual NAWF at Short Creek and the Locust Fork in Alabama, followed by an incredible trip down the Little River Canyon. The video event coverage is a little late but it’s here nonetheless, featuring tons of happy paddlers.
Click to view NAWF/LRC video
Here I was NAWF morning, cooking breakfast in the snow. Twas freezin’ ase cold. (photo Adam Motes)

As always you can subscribe to the Rapid Transit Video podcast via iTunes or at the Podcast page on the RT site. Enjoy and see you next time.

PS. The Magnum 80 and Thunder 76 by Riot are out now. These two new big boy creek/river boats are incredible additions to the lineup. If you’re a biggy then give a try, you likey. You float high, go fast, boof drop, punch hole. You like.

Later,

Spencer Cooke, Effort Inc.

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Dear bloggitizers or boatertalkitizers,

Some folks have made mention of “only three videos up on Rapid Transit.” Au contraire, mon frère! If one were to visit the Library one would find oneself finding lots of other videos for one to watch. Recently added/archived in the Library are the Effort.tv 2007 Mion videos. Twelve videos to be exact, all waiting there to be watchitized by your eyezizz. Peruse the site and you might find warm lovely things that make you happy. So, please visit and please please enjoy.

Soon more videos come to Rapid Transit:
Cooper Lambla New Zealand S Island
Daniel Windham BC’faganza
Effort Inc/Deadman Morocco Surf Trip
Alabama Love Fest

… and more and more and more. Takes little bit of time to edit. We trying our hardest.

Love,

Spencer Cooke, Effort, Inc, looking my smoothest.

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Face Hair Fans,

Due to some unforeseen circumstances the Mustache King will be postponed until June 1st. The new contest dates are June 1 - July 31. There is still room for competitor entries so please feel free to enter between now and then. Visit TheMustacheKing.com for more info.

Besides, Mustaches are way more fertile during warm, summer temperatures.

Thanks, The Mustache King

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Check out Cooper Lambla’s first video journal installment on Rapid Transit. http://rapidtransitvideo.com


Notes: We have been having some major problems with the server we were using but we have changed the whole thing over as of today. It’s a real bummer because the site has only been up for a month now, but I think it’s all taken care of. It’s loading way quicker now.

If you have trouble viewing Rapid Transit Videos via our site, please notify us. Some suggestions to help you view the videos if you are in fact still having trouble.

1) Make sure you have the latest version of Adobe Flash. There is a link directly on our home page for the latest download.

2) If that does not work for some reason you can view some of the RT videos in quicktime format in a few different spots.

First, you may go to MionFootwear.com and view in quicktime from their home page.

Next, you may subscribe to the Rapid Transit Podcast. Right now all our featured videos are available there and we are considering just putting all our stuff up as podcasts. You can go to the iTunes music store and search for Rapid Transit and get the free subscription. You can also subscribe on the Podcast link on our web site.

Lastly, on the Blog or Podcast link on our site you can view the videos in a Quicktime Popup Window.

I hope this helps all the interested viewers have a more enjoyable experience on our site.

Thanks and enjoy the videos,

Spencer Cooke, Effort Inc

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April fools? You be the judge of that. On Tuesday, April 1st a handful of the boldest paddlers from around the globe will show off their freshly shaven faces in hopes of becoming the next Mustache King.

Competitors start off skin to wind in hopes of having the finest stache on the planet two months from now, when the contest ends.

IR, the industry’s leading kayak gear company, has put up the title sponsorship this year, setting the bar way up high. 1st Place wins IR’s drysuit! People will do ridiculous things for an IR drysuit. Wait and see. Among the other prizes we have an Aquabound carbon 4 piece breakdown paddle, Shred Ready helmets, Mion shoes, Zeal Optics sunglasses, some Astral Buoyancy stuff. We also have a feed to WorldKayak.com for our blog, so you can keep up with the hairiness there as well, whatever makes you happy.

Go to TheMustacheKing.com to see all the details.

Please do enjoy,

Spencer Cooke, Effort.tv

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Recently Heehaw Jones left a voicemail for me regarding the Green Race Movie. He didn’t seem all that psyched about it. Here’s the link to the video. CLick HERE
Also, heehaw emailed me regarding the launch of Rapid Transit last week, and i quote, “WTF….I had the idea for this years ago.”

I’d also like to thank Playak.com for linking me up on their page. I’d like to provide a link to them right here. 100% Independent Kayak & Canoe News

Later,

Spencer Cooke, Effort Inc
Effort.tv

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Dear Blog Nerds,

I am pleased to announce a brand new video product from Effort Inc. It’s called Rapid Transit. You may check it out at http://rapidtransitvideo.com

It is a kayak video site deriving from the collective efforts of various kayak video producers who I like to work with. You may watch lots of videos there, subscribe to the video podcast, read the blog and learn about the producers involved.

Mion Footwear and Riot Kayaks, two of the coolest and most progressive companies in the outdoor industry, are the sponsors of Rapid Transit, bringing all these videos to you for free.

Please enjoy and visit frequently.

May I also remind everyone about IR’s Mustache King contest, beginning on April 1st? Please visit the official web site at http://themustacheking.com

Thanks,

Spencer Cooke
Effort Inc
http://effort.tv

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