If y'all gonna show and talk about whitewater k^*#king just to be rambunctious on a rare occasion in one thread . . . okay, because I love whitewater . . . but you should at least know who and what you are talking about.
That is Dane Jackson, probably the G.O.A.T. extreme hairboating kayaker in the world . . . !!! . . . and many times world champion in whitewater freestyle competition in both kayak and C1 as recently as last month.
Dane is of the famous whitewater Jackson family. He is the son of Eric Jackson, multi-time world freestyle champion, member of the U.S. whitewater team for over two decades, and founder of the top selling whitewater kayak company in the world. Dane's sister Emily is also a freestyle and slalom kayak world champion.
Dane doesn't just "gravitate" down waterfalls, unless perhaps he is going for personal height records. He will frequently do loops, flips, screws, cartwheels and other freestyle tricks as he drops and boofs off big falls.
Here are two short videos that demonstrate Dane's world-class skills in some of the world's hardest and biggest waters:
Just two weeks ago, Dane became the first boater to finish the class 4-5+
Green River Narrows Race, the hardest whitewater race in the country, in under four minutes. Below is a POV video of the entire run in one of his signature pink Jackson boats. He ballets and slices through class 5+ Go Left and Die Rapid and the multi-drop class 5+ Gorilla sequence of rapids as if they are riffles. The heart of the Gorilla sequence is the Flume, which is the rapid near the end with the biggest crowd of spectators and rescue ropers on the shore.
I'll post a video of the first open canoe run of Gorilla elsewhere in the whitewater forum.