RURFING

Here is the video of our 'Rurfing' If you can drop by the channel on youtube that would be great.

We can't stand up so it isn't surfing and we are not in a kayak so it is not kayaking. Hopefully someday soon more people will Realize that lying so close to the water with no paddle moving down stream with the current is worth a try. 

Myself, Paul Dwyer and Diarmaid Collins drove from Dublin to Galway the night before and stayed in a hostel called snoozles in Galway city centre. We stayed there for 2 nights. We planned and shot the video shots that we could the first day and then went to Roisin Dubh's for a few pints. 

As you can see the river Corrib in Galway was in Spate. It had been lashing rain all week and the river was flowing at great speed. We had rode the river before back in University, but it had been a little lower. We found that it was easy enough  to steer where you wanted to go. 

The closer we got to Wolfe Tone Bridge the larger the swells became. This Shot above is from the GoPro HD I had strapped to my head. You can See I am down in a trough and he is up almost on the crest. Creat crack. The adrenaline was pumping. Which led us to do it five times. Kayakers do this run all the time. But not that many do it when the river is this wild or high because it would be hard for them to get under the bridge in the sitting position. Thus allowing us to go down when the river is a little wilder :)

The final bridge . Wolfe Tone Bridge  had just enough room  under it for us to pass. 

On the far side of the bridge the standing  waves were bigger.. All the water was being forced through the narrow opening. We let the water drive us about 500 m down stream towards the sea near the mouth of the harbor and then calmly paddled out of the powerful  river current into the side.

Special thanks to Paul Dwyer who was chief camera man on the trip,

 and all the people who cheered us on and took photos as we flew under them on the bridge... Great bit of fun...

Peace 

Glowpunk.