NY Times article on river surfing (feat. Corran)

[Lobes]

Saw this pop up on my twitter. NY times has a long piece on the growing sport of river surfing. The journo goes surfing with Corran. Worth a read and I'm sure The Big C can elaborate for us 

Modern river surfing on standing waves evolved on the Eisbach River in Germany in the mid-1970s. Tidal bores have been ridden for years on the Severn in England; in Bordeaux, France; and on the Amazon. New standing waves are being pioneered almost daily in rivers in places like Colorado, and in Ontario and Alberta in Canada.

Corran Addison, an Olympic kayaker and three-time world freestyle kayak champion, was the first to tackle the Habitat wave with a surfboard, in 2002. Mr. Addison's river-surfing school, Imagine Surfboards, has taught 3,500 students since 2005, and has expanded to include a surf shop and board line. A second Montreal river-surfing school, KSF, has hosted 1,500 students a year since 2003. From fewer than 10 original surfers, Mr. Addison estimates the current participants to number around 500.

http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/travel/escapes/10Riversurf.html?src=twt&twt=nytimes

[corran]

He was a lot of fun to take out ;-)

Corran