Marc Ornstein

Think Tom MacKenzie popularized “obedience training for your canoe” back in the Adirondack canoe symposium days. It originally started...

To me personally I see freestyle as 2 words. Free and style.. To me the style part are the manouvres. The free are all the non standart...

I don't have a problem with the term Freestyle as it relates to the interpretive side of the "sport". The individual maneuvers have been...

Thanks Tom. I couldn't have said it better myself. Come to think of it, I couldn't have said it as well.

Nine of the places involve rivers or lakes, and the other one involves views of them plus lots of frozen water in winter.

I feel qualified to speak to the term "functional freestyle" as I believe, I coined that phrase. When I began learning the various...

I agree that the article doesn't distinguish between "functional freestyle" and "interpretive freestyle". I can tell you, from 1st hand...

A bit over a year ago, USCA dropped their insurance coverage. The stated reason was cost. They told all event organizers to purchase...

Jim, I believe I met you, a couple of weeks ago on the Itch. I was paddling a Savage River Illusion. We sat in an eddy and chatted for a...

I didn't either, until I moved to Florida.

Coating the foot area with varnish or UV Shield, as Swift recommends, are good options but also consider wearing some sort of light...

All of my solo canoes are symmetrical and all have seats with the front edge, approximately 5" behind C/L. I find that any "fine tuning"...

The ultra-light, freestyle paddle that I've been working on, for the past several weeks, is complete and ready to be shipped. It's made...

The wider blades are good for rivers. A friend made me some blanks of laminated white ash, cherry, mahogany, and walnut. I cut the...

The 1st step was isolating the best grain patterns and sectioning the board into lengths, suitable for paddle blades. Each piece was cut...