One day before class, Colin Hunt, Ty Caldwell, Clay Lucas, and Dylan McKinney decided to take advantage of the rains that Hurricane Frances brought in 2004. They rallied out to slides section of Laurel Creek in North Carolina, near 321, to tackle Trashcan Falls. Some great line and good camera angles. Check it.

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Check out this 1975 kayaking film from Russ Nichols! Some awesome old-school kayaking and roll instruction. Pioneers of the sport making it happen back in the day. Much respect and very cool to watch.

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Mitch Bearden and Kresh Productions bring us a short video of a great day kayaking the Cascades. The Nantahala Cascades are a classic Class IV-V Southern creek run located in North Carolina. The flow was 410 cfs for this run. Check it.

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If you haven't seen Huck, you should definitely take a few minutes and check it out. Released around 10 months ago, Huck follows Evan Garcia as he explores what it means to kayak off of big waterfalls—considering both the risks and rewards of a life driven by freefall. Great short video by Andy Maser.

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A new Currents episode is dropping soon. This one highlights the Rio Alseseca River in Mexico. Great editing, whitewater and scenery abound as usual. The Alseseca River is beautiful and I'm gonna have to hit it soon. Check out the video.

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Check out this video of Casper van Kalmthout and Sven Joos kayaking on the wave at Larcay (France) on the Cher river. Looks like a very cold day but what a great spot. Killer looking wave and some sick moves being thrown.

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Great new video out from White Box Magazine that allows you to live the Whitewater Grand Prix (WWGP), kayaking's premier event, through the eyes of the athletes. This year's extreme race series was held in Chile & Patagonia. Very cool stuff.

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WeStroke Team Rider Ben Ghertner brings us a video of him doing some kayaking in the Little River Canyon (LRC) in Alabama. He and friends hit the falls, Mammoth and Terminal Eddy in what looks like an awesome day. Even a little bit of carnage thrown in to boot. Check it. 

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The guys and gals over at the GDI Facebook group bring us a new video called Telliho. As you might have guessed, it features a bunch of openboaters kicking it on the Tellico River. Very cool stuff and boofs galore. Check it out.

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The guys over at Drop Nation (formerly known as Teenage Paddleland) bring us a trailer for their new whitewater kayaking documentary web series, D'eau Vive. Looks very cool and we can't wait to check out the first episode, which drops around March 1st. Check it.

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This past Saturday was the second event of the Plateau Creek Race Series, which is being brought to you by World Kayak, with help from The Outdoor Experience in Cookeville and we here at WeStroke.com. This event was a timed race on the Jett to Lilly section of Clear Creek, near Crossville and Wartburg, TN.

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Check out this great video guide to the Tellico from World Kayak ambassador Tommy Clapp. The World Kayak Initiative is doing this with support from GoPro to put together a great resource of POV river guides around the world. So far they have guides from all over the US, Canada, and Japan.

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Another Dagali Cowboys video to show you guys this morning. This is the third of their videos and the cowboys find themselves this time doing some whitewater kayaking in Voss, Norway. Great editing, beautiful scenery and some sick kayaking.

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Don't forget to come to the Nashville World Kayak Plateau Creek Race Series – Event 2 — Clear Creek Jett to Lilly Timed Race this Saturday. That's right, THIS Saturday, the 23rd. Come and join in the fun and be a part of your local kayaking community!

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We posted a pic yesterday on our Facebook page of a canoe getting huge air on a ski slope (see below). It looked like it couldn't possibly end well and we just had to know so we found some video of the event. Well... we don't want to spoil it but carnage sure is a whole lot of fun to watch. Check it.

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Hunter Katich brings us a video of him rocking out in his new Jackson Kayak Star. Hunter recently switched from a Rock Star Small to the new 2013 Star and he's loving it! He says that it is so good that can he perform most of his tricks without a paddle and he backs that claim up in the vid.

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Since I'm being nostalgic this morning with looking for info about whether Stakeout 2 will ever come out, posting the Ben Marr beer slide video, etc, I decided I'd post the actual Stakeout video. This is definitely one of my favorite kayaking videos ever and was put together in the spring of 2010 by Joel Kowalski and Rush Sturges. Enjoy!

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So I found myself looking for some info about the fabeled Stakeout 2 that is supposed to come out at some point in time... Anyway, I stumbled upon this old video and had to post it up. Ben Marr hitting a pretty substantial slide while drinking a beer. Epic.

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Check out a cool video called Portugal & Galicia Winter Edit. Features a short three day trip to the west Coast of Spain and to the border with Portugal. They found super low water on the Castro Laboreiro but the classic Panadeiro slide was at pretty high flows.

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Buck Fever is a freakin' awesome old school kayak video shot and edited in 1998-1999 and released on VHS in 2000. It was produced by Spencer Cooke, Jed Selby and Jake Cook. Do yourself a favor and put your kayak in front of the TV, grab a beer and enjoy some great kayaking porn.

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