Fluid Flow

Today at four everyone should celebrate! At least, I’ll be celebrating, because…MY CAST IS GETTING CUT OFF!!!!!!!!! Finally, after six weeks spent in two casts (one above and below elbow), IT IS COMING OFF!!!!! too many exclamation points? NAAAAHHHH!!!) We’ll have to see how strong my arm is before figuring out when I can [...]

So, I’ve been out to Potomac Paddlesports’ shop (in Rockville,MD, near the White Flint Metro station) a bunch in the past week, and I love it. It’s only about a 40 minute metro ride for me, and then a little walk. I go out there because I really have got to [...]

FINALLY!!!! Yesterday afternoon, the humidity built as only Potomac humidity can. The night was almost exactly like what I describe in “Frikkin’ Drought” except: Around 1:30, the thunderstorm started, and it began to pour. It kept pouring until I fell asleep around 2. From here until Friday, there’s a chance of thunderstorm every day. LET [...]

Here’s some more about my family. There’s me, my brother, Ben (17) my sister, Eliza (10) my mom and my dad. We also have two neurotic cats named Spitz and Polly, plus a ridiculous dog named Capo. My brother has really been giving WW kayaking a chance, but has decided he’d rather OC-1 (since he’s [...]

In case you were unaware, the Mid-Atlantic is suffering (insert scary music) a drought. Though it has rained occasionally in the past 4 days, it was never for more than 45 minutes (AKA not enough). Last night it seemed we might be freed from the drought by some storms in the [...]

I just looked at a bunch of posts about kid’s boats, and they all had one thing in common. They were written by adults! Here’s the (semi) youngster’s view.
I started kayaking (not whitewater) about 8 years ago. At that point it was mainly flat water in an Old Town Otter. Then, [...]

Well, here I am! I’m Liam Malakoff, a fourteen year old avid whitewater kayaker. I live in Northern Virginia, so my main paddling is the Potomac. My current boat is a Pyranha s6f playboat. But since I’m soon to outgrow it, there’ll probably be several posts about boats I demo, either this season or next. [...]

The World Kayak initiative would like to announce the recent creation of a new blog Worldkayakblogs.com. This is a first post on this blog’s behalf.