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Whitewater Classics
Fast and Clean -- NOW available on DVDVHS tape or DVD, Russ Nichols production, 1979. A must have classic film for anyone interested in slalom racing. This great whitewater film follows slalom athletes like Jon Lugbill, Cathy and David Hearn, and others on the journey from the Team Trials to the World Championships $25.
Every Crushing Stroke: The Book of Performance Kayaking By Scott Shipley, 2001. Incredibly detailed look at what it takes to become the best in the world at whitewater slalom racing. Detailed workouts included, 110 pages. $28.95.
The River Masters: A History of the World Championships of Whitewater Canoeing By William T. Endicott, 1979. Index of racers 1949-1978. $12.
To Win the Worlds : A Textbook for Elite Slalomists and Their Coaches By William T. Endicott, 1980. 294 pages. Including More Than 200 Drawings, Diagrams, Tables, and Photographs. Written after the World slalom sweep by our USA C1s in 1979 at Jonquiere. Reviewed by Ray McLain. Out of print, please visit The Endicott Files, currently a work in progress...
The Ultimate Run: Canoe Slalom at the Highest Levels by William T. Endicott, 1983. 524 pages. Technique in detail for each racing class; Physiology; Periodizing the Year; Psychology; Case Studies of 11 champion athletes, written after two years of interviews with top paddlers in every class. Out of print, please visit The Endicott Files.
The Danger Zone: Downriver Canoeing at the Highest Levels By William T. Endicott, 1985. 365 pages. Racing technique for wildwater canoes and kayaks. Types of workouts, World Champions case histories. Out of print, please visit The Endicott Files, currently a work in progress...
Classic Virginia Rivers By Ed Grove, 1992. Excellent guide to the Potomac River and over 80 other rivers. 350 pages. $15.
The River Chasers By Sue Taft, 2001. Detailed history of American whitewater canoeing & kayaking , tracing the evolution of paddling though the people, rivers, and events over the last 60 year. 480 pages. $34.95.
Carter River GuideWe turned up a cache of Randy Carter’s famous book Canoeing White Water River Guide, eighth edition, 1974. This guide to running whitewater in an open canoe in Virginia, eastern West Virginia, and western North Carolina is a classic of canoeing literature, which should be in every serious paddler’s library. $6 paperback or $10 for the hard-cover edition. Details here. Burmeister River GuidesWe have also turned up a supply of Appalachian Waters, Walter F. Burmeister’s series of guides to eastern US whitewater streams. These were originally published by the Canoe Cruisers Association in 1962 in two volumes in 8½" x 11" format. They were republished by Appalachian Books as an expanded and updated five-volume set in the mid-1970s. They appeared in both paperback and hard-cover editions. We have Vol 1 in hard cover and the others in paperback except for Vol 2, which remains out of print. These are plain-text books without any photos or drawings or any color. Each stream is divided into short sections, usually bridge to bridge, with distance and difficulty rating for each section and accompanying descriptive text. The descriptions are obviously dated since they contain no information on changes that may have occurred over the past 25 years. The maps referred to below are very generalized location maps. These books are primarily of historical interest. Most of the statistical data are accurate and remain useful to paddlers; however, readers should be aware that Burmeister ran many of these streams from his living room via topo maps, hence significant features are occasionally omitted from the descriptions.
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By
Tyler Williams, 2004. Destined to be a Whitewater Classic this is
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