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Ley Jam - 5 years ago

He should be fired for such shoddy work.

Alswo Ward - 5 years ago

lol you just didn’t want to do it

Eric Mason - 5 years ago

Yeah bad idea to try to go right where that current is ripping past the rocks. maybe 20 feet to the right would've been better, surprised you didnt' try that - or maybe you did but just didn't show it. There was clearly a lot of time edited out when you went from on the water at 8:45 and then the last time stamp showed 9:5something.

Eric Mason - 5 years ago

but glad to see a kayak video, regardless of the outcome :)

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bob rushing - 5 years ago

portions of the hudson river are dependent on ocean tides. i live in new york's orange county which borders on the hudson river. you can watch the direction of the hudson river in newburgh change. depending on tidal conditions, the river will flow up stream then later on in the day change to down stream which is the direction of the atlantic ocean.

Mikey Mike - 5 years ago

Regardless of his "outdoorsy" ness. This man is not a waterman and is woefully unprepared for boating.

TheKamsterninja - 5 years ago

Lol you were putting in ur paddle on the wrong side making you circle. If you would have placed the paddle on the side you were being pushed it would have countered it

Claire Behr - 5 years ago

What the hell was that? He literally turned himself around. By a bunch of rocks. Instead of being in the middle of the river. SMH. That was pathetic

Jessica Mason - 5 years ago

You can’t be so close to shore, you’ll get caught in eddies (currents going up river)

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HeyJay - 5 years ago

"the water is pretty clear" it's like he's never seen nyc water before

DarcyAdelaide - 5 years ago

.......that water is connected to the OCEAN which means it has CURRENTS that change SEVERAL times a day. Do you guys not fact check things. I mean the Ferry traffic alone could smack you off that kayak.

Uate Tamanikaiyaroi - 5 years ago

What time does buzzfeed starts work?

Daftshrimp - 5 years ago

Bro wtf

K M - 5 years ago

How did there kayak not melt in the Hudson?

Robin Masters - 5 years ago

You have with New York, the hottest city in the world. Yours, from so many nations yet open to strangers, residents, is exactly what America stands for and we tourists come again and again. Stay Safe, Nice Sport.

MooflesThaCat - 5 years ago

Still faster (and more reliable) than NJ Transit!

ohnoestheydidnt - 5 years ago

All this tells me is don't try kayaking to work from Queens. Sucks to be you, Christian!

robd761 - 5 years ago

As soon as you say "I am an outdoorsy person", all capable outdoors people roll their eyes.

Alexander Kaznowsky - 5 years ago

Try learning to row first

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Pierre Roy - 5 years ago

Cross the Eddy line at 90 degrees

Łukasz Zieliński - 5 years ago

Go home, hipster

okashi10 - 5 years ago

Maybe if you knew how to kayak... or paddle...

Sylphie - 5 years ago

I can tell he's never kayaked before.

Sophie Bailey - 5 years ago

The way you paddled is what flipped you around

Junior Sanchez - 5 years ago

Pretty much sums up millennials in one video...

HyPe_Dovaa - 5 years ago

Try paddling on the right side of the kayak next time. Maybe you’ll get further

GnomeSprinkles - 5 years ago

He was paddling on his left... the same way the current was pushing come on man

ecofriendlyhippie - 5 years ago

That is one state I have no interest in living in ever

Papi The Dog - 5 years ago

Next video: I tried not going to work

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Faye McCarson - 5 years ago

I'm an amateur, but controlling your direction with the paddle isn't that hard.

Iman Fadlalla - 5 years ago

why doesnt he just...not kayak as close to the current?

Vanessa Valentina - 5 years ago

I like Christian
I like the idea
I wanna see more
I don’t like how abruptly the video ..
The end.

Rman Nayr - 5 years ago

LOL WHAT'S NEXT? RAFTING OR JETSKIING TO WORK?!

wii guy - 5 years ago

he tried and failed

Jaime Lyerly - 5 years ago

I think it is pretty genius you even tried this. I wonder what other creative ways you could get to work?

campkira - 5 years ago

#fail may just well go back to bed.

Simon Buckley - 5 years ago

Why did they use someone who clearly can’t kayak to do this?

Eric Geraghty - 5 years ago

Stopping when you hit the current

Kat Mann - 5 years ago

You either have no idea how to kayak or are straight trying to fail. Stopped watching.

privatetutor1 - 5 years ago

Is this fitness or survivalist?

Ziqian Li - 5 years ago

might as well catch few fishes for lunch

Katie Fair - 5 years ago

Okay....so....when you were ‘turning around’ it wasn’t just due to the current. It was due to you only paddling on one side...further turning you haha

Niki Pea - 5 years ago

Sounds cold

GamersHunch - 5 years ago

Go around the current you ape

Rachel Frumkin - 5 years ago

My favorite part of these videos: the comments. Love reading all the clearly more qualified people just own this guy. In a totally constructive way but none the less own him.

kim mcdonald - 5 years ago

Definitely. not a Try Guy replacement. Even Zach wouldn't have gave up in after 3 attempts. lol

Quafflez - 5 years ago

this guy should be fired

Melissa Gomez - 5 years ago

Wasn't there a joke like this on Comedy Central's YouTube channel?

okashi10 - 5 years ago

I saw a recent video about swimming to work to avoid traffic.

lola lane - 5 years ago

my guy just take the 7 across lmao

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Cash Conway - 5 years ago

I started watching Buzzfeed's content again because you guys actually made some good stuff. This is not part of that stuff. Actually try to do the thing your trying to do. Please.

Wally - 5 years ago

The moment you find your kayak turning counter with a stroke in the opposite direction. Easy.

akadanielle - 5 years ago

he’s not even steering himself and he gave it 3 shots why was this even uploaded

The Dancing Chef Abby - 5 years ago

I would be interested to see if he succeeded.

Rohan Patel - 5 years ago

U should have gone on a Angle

25jazz25 - 5 years ago

So this guy’s obviously not an experienced kayaker but the way he launched almost caused physical pain.
His kayak and paddle aren’t going to last too long if he does that every time he heads out...

Halapecia shaniqua - 5 years ago

You didn't even try with this video, my god.

Aileen S - 5 years ago

Most important thing is to know the traffic pattern!!

bubobubo - 5 years ago

Did you forget about tides? You know, the ocean thing?

unadultr8dgeniuses - 5 years ago

bRUH why do people insist on getting in the water around NYC

New Title: I attempted to get full body cancer in under 24 hours.

what about elle - 5 years ago

He really should have had a helmet

Jenna Sorenson - 5 years ago

I want him to do this more realistically next time. Go around the current? Go to the middle of the river? I mean come one its not that hard. Or just paddle constantly instead of giving up right when you hit the current and the kayak turns. Really dissapointed with this vid.

okashi10 - 5 years ago

I don't think he knew how to paddle at all... just watching him paddling on the same side that would turn him WITH the current... guy doesn't understand basic physics.

TBcinema - 5 years ago

Next video: I try riding a bike to work... Has no idea how to ride a bike.

No wonder you didn't make it in time.

Joshua Moolman - 5 years ago

Theres a guy from South Africa who literally went with his wife with a small fishing boat from Cape Town to New York for a honeymoon get away. That's insane

Savannah Rosary - 5 years ago

Thought he'd knpw how to kayak before attempting it on a time schedule? The idiot is going straight for currents and rips, he also doesn't understand how physics work because he's trying to use the paddle to stop moving but should have been using it to change direction by putting on the other side of him.

Jason - 5 years ago

That was such a feeble attempt.

gang gang - 5 years ago

You take you car to work, ill take my board...

puking emoji - 5 years ago

I'm annoyed by the arrow while he is talking to him

Josie Kelpsas - 5 years ago

Boo

CraftyCreator - 5 years ago

He couldn’t do it because he wasn’t paddling the right way smh

KuroiandNoukon - 5 years ago

This was poorly planned on so many levels.

1) Despite the name, the East River isn't a river, it's a tidal estuary. This means that the current changes four times a day and he picked a time where he was paddling against the current.

2) Although his launch was smooth, he would have hit rougher waters once he got past the south end of Roosevelt Island because of ferry traffic. The NJ guys had it right by going at hours when the ferries weren't running. He ran a risk of capsizing if he ever made it that far and crossed over into the Manhattan side of the East River.

3) Not only is the water notoriously polluted in NYC, that specific cove is located near public housing that has been known to have sewage issues.

This video would have been more interesting if they took it seriously.

nick normal - 5 years ago

+airplainchild and I <3 you.

airplainchild - 5 years ago

I think I love you.

KuroiandNoukon - 5 years ago

+recoil53 It's true but I have a feeling that he didn't really read into what the current flows actually mean. If he had read that high tide (the water in the East River goes northward) wasn't until after he calculated when he would be out of the water, he might have disregarded it. However, the tide schedule tells when high tide is at it's peak, not when it starts, which can start between 30-45 minutes before it's peak.

Another problem I totally missed the first time is the Ravenswood Generating Station. There's an unknown outlet pipe that randomly spews out water at high pressure under the station. This could also contribute to the strong northward current he was dealing with in the video.

Also, it turns out that the part of the Hudson River that runs through NYC is considered a tidal estuary as well, so maybe the Jersey guy got lucky with crossing perpendicular to the current. I'm just upset because I know it can be done.

recoil53 - 5 years ago

He said that he read that the current would be going the other way. That meant he looked when the current flows in which direction.
He did ask the Jersey guy, who basically told him to just do it. Nothing about tides and such.

Jamie Lynn - 5 years ago

I'm just surprised the pollution in the river didn't eat his kayak

matt heimlicher - 5 years ago

That’s an Eddie on the side of the river it goes against the current

Anthony Nguyen - 5 years ago

I would have started maybe 3 hours before going to work

Faisal .Shalash - 5 years ago

Straight outta content...Get a real man/woman to do it not a snowflake!

Julia Rose18 - 5 years ago

Everyone in the comments are suddenly kayaking experts lol.

Jenn Cardona - 5 years ago

+Vusstar tf My dad's a pro kayaker so I spent a lot of my summers out kayaking with him and my mom

Either way, anyone with a concept of basic physics, as Vusstar tf said, can see he's an idiot when it comes to kayaking

Vusstar tf - 5 years ago

Paddle left you go right
Paddle right you go left.

If you need to be an expert to understand that then I'm the next Einstein.

Hannah Jones - 5 years ago

Not "kayaking experts", just people with half a brain.

Must Be - 5 years ago

Julia Rose18 Right lmao

GingerNotANinja - 5 years ago

you need more weight in the front of the boat to counteract the current pushing you

Mean - 5 years ago

They're not sending their best...

Moxie Fervor - 5 years ago

$1200 for the Kayak? I'll use the ferry instead.

Jenn Cardona - 5 years ago

Whenever you hit the current, you paddled in the same direction as the current, pushing you more in the wrong direction.

TheDenisedrake - 5 years ago

insanity: noun; "The act of doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."

David Poon - 5 years ago

If he makes another attempt, the East River can be better thought as a channel between two islands adjacent to the ocean... He'll want to consider how the tide changes at any given time as it will impact how the water will flow, if he tries to go south again.

Kenneth John Galeon - 5 years ago

Idiot!

Secret Zexyula Teloiv - 5 years ago

In the future you fly to your Job ! Plus you can also fly to your blowjob

Matt - 5 years ago

I tried to time travel back to my last paycheck

Lottie - 5 years ago

if anyone has a free few minutes, please can you check out my recent video and give me some feedback or tips on how to improve or what was good id be really appreciative, Trying to expand my audience and make my videos better, thank you if you have chance, have a great day if not!

I Look Like a Toe - 5 years ago

Ok so the folding kayak is theoretically a good idea - but what do you do with it once it gets wet? You gonna carry a dripping wet kayak on your back around NY?

djackio - 5 years ago

Too much arm paddling, you get more power when you use your core. I think this would be worth another attempt as long as you practice your technique.

flafaloon - 5 years ago

gross human waste water from a polluted place

Ryann F - 5 years ago

So did he make it? Did he end up with tetanus or Hep C from that water??? I have so many questions.

Kyle Dennehy - 5 years ago

...I mean, as someone who has kayaked upstream on the Colorado River to Hoover Dam, this seems like you either 1) don’t have a lot of experience with kayaking since you don’t use the paddles to change your direction at all (which is fine since a lot of people don’t get that when they start kayaking) or 2) you just don’t want to do this

Neckromancer Machete - 5 years ago

Um... What?! Just keep paddling

lindalately - 5 years ago

That’s a lot of work

Andrew Esquivel - 5 years ago

boo

Evelyn Exuma - 5 years ago

How to basic: how to kayak

Chinese Electric Batman - 5 years ago

1:40 I heard hour and a half, something tells he his time table is wrong.

Tracy Low - 5 years ago

You must as well use a Boosted board

sammy Lavasniper - 5 years ago

Marja Kuikka I’m 12 and I could kayaker better then him

Naomi Williams - 5 years ago

This was so lazy

jerron w - 5 years ago

:yt:

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V BEST FOOD - 5 years ago

Nice video

talliyah - 5 years ago

goes in the current

Erin McKenzie - 5 years ago

Just saying, if you tried paddling as if you were trying to turn against the direction the current is taking you rather than with the direction the current is taking you, you may actually go in a straight line. The attempts at going against the current were pretty weak and made him look like a bit of a defeatist.

talliyah - 5 years ago

Y-you know sometimes I sit back, and ask....why?

John Toodles - 5 years ago

What brand of life jacket is that its pretty nice

Mini Me - 5 years ago

In other news, water is wet.

Hcdgvc T - 5 years ago

Try paddling where the currents weaker and push against it more not away from it

Damien - 5 years ago

Who leaves the mouse cursor in the middle of the screen?! Like seriously?!

RadicalEd57 - 5 years ago

was looking to see if that annoyed anyone else lmao

Rusty Shackleford - 5 years ago

White people tingz

Bill Woo - 5 years ago

Yay! A fascinating, relatable, adventure filled buzzfeed video that isn't focused on gay people or gayness! Finally! Yayyyy!

Bill Woo - 5 years ago

+Must Be Tell me that would not be a cool thing to do. Tell me that would not be awesome. I can relate.

Must Be - 5 years ago

Bill Woo kayaking to work is relatable?

Ethan Wilson - 5 years ago

You should do this daily

Codename Keith - 5 years ago

67th comment

ExoticEnd - 5 years ago

i take a helicopter to school. I live right next to school.

ExoticEnd - 5 years ago

+Anthony DeSantis Well there is a lot of show and tells where i go to preschool

Anthony DeSantis - 5 years ago

ExoticEnd sounds like you’re taking a toy helicopter to school in your backpack hahaha

Ishan Ali - 5 years ago

Or you know. Just use a train like normal people

Ultra Graal - 5 years ago

When you dont have bus fare

wii guy - 5 years ago

When you dont have bus fare but can still buy a kayak ?

Deepika Rai Yábar Waqas - 5 years ago

Why doesn't he go outside of the current??

A OH - 5 years ago

Because it's too much for his brain.

GamersHunch - 5 years ago

Thats Americans for you

Matthew Wilson - 5 years ago

He’s trying to make interesting content, that’s why.

DARKNIGHT987 - 5 years ago

It’s because he works at buzzfeed

Anon Anon - 5 years ago

He's afraid to go into "open" water. He's been egding the whole time, he would've has an easier time crossing to the other side and then cruising down but he didn't think all that ahead. Even with an hour and a half he wouldn't have made it on his first try anyway. He planned this poorly.

curlyboy 22 - 5 years ago

When u run out of ideas

2764 Subscribers With Few Videos? - 5 years ago

Why?

johnathan stith - 5 years ago

The river here in NYC has a very strong current

Seb Pliego - 5 years ago

3:44 goes right into the spot where the current is strongest instead of into the middle of the river...

Slayden Ader - 5 years ago

Vusstar tf my thought exactly if he would’ve just paddled to the other side he would’ve went for it but my guess is he was committed enough to do this and was terrified of even crossing the river...

Vusstar tf - 5 years ago

+haxate here what this guy says ^ litterly paddeling on the wrong side of the boat

Vusstar tf - 5 years ago

3:50 you are litterly steering the boat to the right making the effects of the current even stronger.

Do you even know what you are doing? You seem to be oblivous as how to steer on the water.

Bagus HR - 5 years ago

I knowwwww

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GamersHunch - 5 years ago

Thats americans for you

Ryan Harnett - 5 years ago

where is this dudes brain

Andra Julinar - 5 years ago

I wonder too...

JAY DESAI - 5 years ago

+Cara Mico he is an idiot

Cara Mico - 5 years ago

+haxate thank you, it's almost like he's never been on a boat...

haxate - 5 years ago

and paddles on the side that will turn him in the wrong direction as he spins.

Kate - 5 years ago

I had the same thought was he scared to go to the center?

MATIWINGH - 5 years ago

LULZ

ExoticEnd - 5 years ago

43 comment peoplesss

johnathan stith - 5 years ago

No way would I kyack in the filthy water here in nyc

ebony berry - 5 years ago

I said the same thing!

LilacLover29 - 5 years ago

johnathan stith my brother pushed me in at a paddle boarding event there. Ick!

alex_ xo_ovo_ 15 - 5 years ago

reeee

Chipie - 5 years ago

I want to see you attempt this more realistically again,thanks

1,000 subs with no videos? ? - 5 years ago

Hello

Emma ? - 5 years ago

I love how this is his idea of a challenge but my idea of a challenge is getting off the couch to get a bowl of chips...

Blaming Days.1 - 5 years ago

Heyyy

Alix Moore - 5 years ago

Collapsing kayaks? Sounds like something I would never do

Beck Beck - 5 years ago

+Alix Moore so why would it being collapsing make a difference then bruh

Alix Moore - 5 years ago

+Kate im just scared of kayaking in general

Kate - 5 years ago

They ORU Kayaks and pretty cool for people who travel.

Nick Tokar - 5 years ago

I tried to slingshot myself to work.

Hannah Mathew - 5 years ago

I've been doing that too!

TheBigVeganGiant - 5 years ago

LMAO YES

Riyann Dosso - 5 years ago

I hate buzz feed so much there so annoying

I just wanted to write something mean don’t take thus seriously. I LOVE BUZZ FEED

be fokkinhappy - 5 years ago

I'll just stick to a bike

Llapacas - 5 years ago

I went to mcdonalds

In my car

eric asu - 5 years ago

Buzz feed copying other people.and failing.

danz beard - 5 years ago

I'd do it!

Josie Sakurada - 5 years ago

I wanna do this

Smith •_• - 5 years ago

ILL BE SUBBING TOO ON 2 ACOUNTS IF YOU SUBSEIBE TO MY OTHER ACCOUNT KAIZ GAMEZ

Chicken block - 5 years ago

I can never do that because im homeless wih wifi

Malak ElSadek - 5 years ago

Chicken block wait what

_Bob McCoy - 5 years ago

Next Video: I Tried Jetpacking to Work in New York City

Reigh - 5 years ago

tbh the current would probably stop them

john wayne - 5 years ago

Seems reasonable

Sara Wayne - 5 years ago

A water jet pack?

Blackshadow Baruah - 5 years ago

He tried Kayaking to work in New York city
I nvr got out my bed

Daniel Berry - 5 years ago

49th

IcePro10 // Minecraft - 5 years ago

How

Avery Lopez-Baines - 5 years ago

Didn't Casey do this once?

Kate - 5 years ago

Yeah, but he wasn't trying to go anywhere particular he's also surfed and swam in that river, then probably got a few shots to fend off whatever he got in that river.

awkward couch potato - 5 years ago

Well I'm gonna try kayaking now......

Selling Rice - 5 years ago

I tried to finesse the bus driver to work.....too that

christina Deng - 5 years ago

My arms are sore just watching this

10,000 subscribers withe no videos challenge Yay - 5 years ago

I like llamas

Like if u agree?

john wayne - 5 years ago

And the other llama that kept him sane

Sara Wayne - 5 years ago

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Killed a person by stabbing him 37 times in the chest
Cut off his hands, cooked them and ate them
Sunk an entire cruise ship
Fired a harpoon into the captain’s face
Headbutted children off the side of the ship
Made out with ice sculptures
Killed the elderly couple from 2B
Bit lots of holes in the lifeboats
Toppled the south American government
Pushed the resistance leader and other people into a giant fan
Swallowed a person
Caused a nuclear explosion
Turned faces into birthfay decorations
Made a crack in space time to collect millions of baby hands