Idiot Savant

I don't have a back forty to keep me in shape, but I'm also a cyclist and I work on muscles for doing stuff like loading a canoe onto my...

The Bull and some of the other machines you guys have posted look pretty good, but I spent less than $200 on my rower. I'll take a look...

I'd like to see a photo of your friend's set-up. It's hard for me to picture it from your description. I use the rower one arm at a...

I don't live in an area where you can paddle year-round and I'm not inclined to watch football and drink beer all winter and expect to...

I'm pretty sold on inflatables, but my experience is strictly with IKs, but I have quite a bit with them. I paddled a friend's all drop...

I think it was Gumotex that said they were the biggest. Name recognition here may be very different from that in the rest of the world...

A guy in my club had one of the Travel Canoes and he said it wasn't very stable. I'm sold on inflatable kayaks. There must be a good...

I don't remember exactly what I was searching for, but I came across a bunch of videos, by some British guy, about paddling Gumotex...

Some of the backbone members of my club are gradually easing their way out of the sport due to old age and heath/injury issues. In 2021...

My biggest complaint about my Echo is the low freeboard. I left it home on my last trip for that very reason. I was worried it might...

If you hand someone a bent shaft for the first time they almost always hold it backwards. The effect of using it backwards is it tends...

I have two boats with asymmetrical rocker, a Northwind solo and a Northwind 17. Typically boats like this are meant to be paddled from...

I thought I'd throw in two cents about using the legs with a double blade. I hope I've got this right because it's been a several weeks...

I'm probably repeating myself, but here goes. For the last few years, during paddling season, I've been going to a local lake, to paddle...

I have several inexpensive action cameras now. If you check them on Amazon frequently you see that the price goes up and down and what...