Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Skyaking


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The result was delete - Philippe &#124; Talk 03:59, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Skyaking
Hey, hang on a minute, folks. I put this on, and I can assure you that the sport is genuine: there are a lot of people pushing the limits of what can be done in skydiving: as well as kayaks, there are folks skydiving on snowboards, and there's even a guy done it on skis. If that particular video is a spoof (and I've no reason to think that it is:it's from the playak website, which is pretty reputable)there are plenty more - just have a look on Youtube. I just put that one on as an example: I wasn't trying to park anything anywhere as the guy below suggested. Here's another one

I'm really surprised by people's hostile reaction to this: I'm just a kayaker like the rest of you: it's just that my interest is more in toward the extreme end of finding out what you can do in a boat. If you don't believe the skyacking, have a search around for snow kayaking - downhill, slalom and luge. It's good fun and is really taking off. Indeed, some people are beginning to modify boats for this. And if you still don't believe in the extreme, take a look at the hydrofoil kayak, the "flyack" or "flyak".

And then, of course, there's Shaun Baker's jet-powered kayak which was shown on the BBC TV programme "Top Gear".


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This is made up stuff, for sure, but I can't justify it for a speedy delete. Gary King (talk) 17:44, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Made-up tripe, only link is to NN video. All other ghits are to NN sources, mostly to other videos. Doc StrangeTelepathic MessagesStrange Frequencies 17:58, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete I would have speedied this: half made-up nonsense, half feeble excuse for a place to park an external link. Andrew Lenahan -  St ar bli nd  18:28, 28 February 2008 (UTC)


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