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be05068906 - 6 years ago

class 2 maybe class 3 is possible after a week of training if you go to norway and get both main requiered courses in sjoa but class 4 no chance im still at class 3 after 2 years of training and i train upto 8 hours a day in the kayak season thats from mid april until the ice settles in october november

Ethan Schwartz - 6 years ago

how much did this adventure cost?

Bill Halbert - 6 years ago

I am a solid Class 4 whitewater kayaker from North Idaho that routinely finds myself in Class 5 situations . When I was starting kayaking the best advise I got was, keep your bow pointed downstream and paddle like hell". I ran the Lochsa River at spring levels with three months experience on the water. One week to run solid Class 4 whitewater seems pretty optimistic, but I admire his efforts.

Stephan Zumsteg - 7 years ago

Asehole

James Iliff - 7 years ago

Epic!!!

Jimmy Elsen - 7 years ago

He forgot class VI

Jimmy Elsen - 7 years ago

He needs to work on his brace a lot during those laterals, but I don't know how he even got into that boat with balls that big.

Amir groove - 7 years ago

I have been kayaking since 1979, so, I would say I am pretty experienced. I must say, I admire this guy. He has done something pretty cool, something he never did before. Yes, he had a big support from experienced kayakers and the whole crew, but still, I think he is brave, so lets not hate, lets support and respect.

Jr Man - 8 years ago

shit not that hard

Sean Waine - 7 years ago

Jr Man oh it is I have been kayaking for 7 year at very high level that is serious water

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Luke Metzger - 8 years ago

Dude you are such a bag of tools and dicks.

Logan Froriep extreme kayaker - 8 years ago

If the instructor was such a knowledgeable kayaker he would of rejected the idea of getting a beginner on class 4 in one week! disappointed! although.... he did surprisingly well

John Housh - 8 years ago

Not all Class 4 rapids are equal. What they took him down was big and scary to a beginner, but pretty low on the risk factor. He was also surrounded by several quality kayakers there to rescue him if something went wrong. And that instructor is a rather legendary figure in whitewater.

mrchevycelebrity - 8 years ago

thats chris spelius...

Heather stubbs - 8 years ago

I couldn't agree more. I think this guy is on it for himself, and he'll pay someone anything he can to accomplish whatever he wants, because that's what selfish people do. It's really sad, because others most likely will try to do the same from watching this, and they'll most likely lose their lives or come close to it. That's why I disliked the two comments above yours. It's just not worth it, unless your life depends on it, or you're doing something for others who may have to depend on it. I know if someone needed to do it to deliver life-saving medication to another person, I'd want the best training. I would certainly appreciate it, too.

SteepVisions - 8 years ago

He's good for a beginner. Quick progression won't teach you as well though. Either way, congratulations on giving the sport a try. It get's pretty scary when you start hitting class V+.

Kevin Robben - 8 years ago

where is the class IV water? only saw clas 1, 2 and 3

onaraggatip961 - 9 years ago

Hey guys, I don't think you should be giving this dude a hard time. We all started somewhere, I think it took some serious balls to run that with his skill set. Ok, so it's for tv, it'll be made to look more knarly, but I was willing this guy to succeed all the way! Fair play to him.

Sean Waine - 7 years ago

onaraggatip961 no mate water like this is as knarly as they make out

Alejandro Yena - 9 years ago

With Spelius by your side you can do it :-). Futaleufu is the best whitewater river I´ve ever go kayaking, it has whatever level you want or can, Class 1 to 5, beautiful landscapes, blue water, chilean are very nice people......"Un paisaje pintado por Dios" :-)

Heather stubbs - 8 years ago

Yes, and if you're doing it for God, you're doing it for people who just might need that skill, because they might need something like life-saving medicine. If you're just doing it for yourself, that's a whole different ball game. Too many people try to copy what he did without the training and get themselves killed. If you're smart, you'll get a lot more training.

carter dunlop - 9 years ago

YOU DONT KAYAK CALSS IV WATER WTH A WEEK OF PRACTICE!

carter dunlop - 9 years ago

He a dumb fuck. I've been kayaking for 3 years and I just started kayaking the Gauley.

HULKEN1UP - 10 years ago

LOL at people calling this guy a sissy. In 1999 he was the youngest American ever to summit Everest. Base jumper, world class wingsuit flyer and here he just ran a class 3+ rapid in a glacier river in Patagonia in his first week ever in a kayak. Joby-you da man!

Nate Lanza - 9 years ago

+Daniel Ford I'm rather disappointed with the people that produced this episode. Their mad rush for good ratings and reviews took this guy on a river he really wasn't ready for. Even if they'd just given him 2 weeks, that probably would've been enough and still impressive.

Daniel Ford - 9 years ago

Yeah, Good on him for giving it a go. Have to say though it takes more than a week to learn to kayak. A lot longer. I don't like that this gives the impression you can kayak class 4 after a weeks paddling. It's fools talk that could lead to dangerous overconfidence.

hinkshonks - 10 years ago

Ok - fair dues for giving it a nudge and getting of the couch! But whats with all the sensationalisation - 'the Adventurist' REALLY - where's the humility gone.

John Housh - 7 years ago

I doubt most of that was a script. I think the disconnect people have about all his dialog, an fears is that he verbalized them. Anyone who has kayaked has had all those thoughts. They have felt all those fears. The difference is that he is telling us his thoughts, rather than holding them in.

It would be a boring film if he didn't let us know what was going on in his head.

HULKEN1UP - 9 years ago

That is not Joby speaking-that is Joby reading from a National Geographic script..totally annoying but it apparently ups their ratings in the US so I guess they`ll keep doing it. I have the NatGeoWild channel-same crap in many productions:(

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River Warrior Family - 10 years ago

I tip my hat to Joby...and for all those nay sayers...just stop...read this dudes Bio and it is like reading a comic or fiction. Thank you Joby for an honest look into a very challenging sport and being Man Enough to express your true emotion and taking on the big water...well done :)

Mitchell - 10 years ago

His paddling is a joke never got better either...

cody beauregard - 10 years ago

oh and i suppose all u a-holes that thought he was bad can do it. nah

Gracia Barr - 10 years ago

Amazing and exciting. Loved this~ a kayaker.

J. Borden - 10 years ago

Ditto

Mike BRAP - 10 years ago

start watching at 46minutes to see the monster river

Saint Mars - 10 years ago

That guy is such a sissy drama queen. In Washington state, that river is rated a 2 to with a class 3 drop. The guy needed some time and real instruction: he was was so stiff, he looked like he was a cadaver with rigor mortis. His strokes were too short and horizontal, as though he had penguin flippers, not arms.He simply doesn't know any strokes; thus, he can't control where he goes. If he had to paddle around a boulder or a real hole, rather than just coast down a mild wave train, he would be totally doomed.

Here, we have 10-12 year-old girls who are far better than him, who run real rapids.

If this is the thrill of his life, then he has a very sad little life. I hate videos like this that portrays a wimp as being more than what he is--a sissy, weak wimp. He needs serious physical and mental conditioning.

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Frode Hofset - 10 years ago

I liked this film a lot. Want to get a coach learning this river and try myself.

Martina Naplawa - 10 years ago

8 minutes in...what a fu#$en joke

kayakair1 - 11 years ago

Gosh...great film work, but the guy isn't an adventurist...he is an unprepared idiot in a kayak!

Jimmy Elsen - 7 years ago

Sean Waine true kayaking class IV is scary for me and I have been doing it for 5 yrs so for him to do it in one week would be super scary

Sean Waine - 7 years ago

Xyluss Nelms no he isn't an idiot I do kayak and have been for 7 years training for a week to do that borders dangerous

Jimmy Elsen - 7 years ago

Xyluss Nelms no because he is rich and I'm jelly jello

Xyluss Nelms - 10 years ago

What's with all the hate? Oh, because he is actually living life and you aren't?

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konstantin kaufhaus - 11 years ago

a roll is not even hard to do.

konstantin kaufhaus - 11 years ago

true <3

Callum Jeffcock - 11 years ago

Just a it over exagurated

Razzupaltuff - 11 years ago

Repost this in 720p please. The video quality is horrible.

madmiguelh2o - 11 years ago

it's a joke.

Fishman Fairclough - 11 years ago

Should have been green river in one week, that would have been interesting.

Bengazi Williams - 11 years ago

what do you mean?

madmiguelh2o - 11 years ago

oh really? I heard your bow should enter the rapid first too.

Bengazi Williams - 11 years ago

they do exaggerate quite a lot. i had 3 hours kayak time a decent right side roll before my first class 4. i did fine. btw, in a roll your head should come up last

raj dabz - 11 years ago

cant ! read h20 !!!!!!

NYpaddler - 11 years ago

He's lucky he had a head to bring up, considering he went in face first several times and never seemed to tuck.

NYpaddler - 11 years ago

It looks to me like it was largely a matter of whether it was just big waves that he was squared up with or if he was at an angle to things. He stayed upright though a lot of stuff that lifted him up or turned his boat, because that sort of stuff doesn't always impart much rolling force. The flips happened when he got sideways and his inexperience let the current flow under the boat or catch an edge. It was a good example of the difference between paddling class 4 and being a class 4 paddler.

madmiguelh2o - 11 years ago

for all you non kayakers. swimming in class 3 is fine, not life threatening. i know this is a reality show and all, but come on.

Sean Waine - 7 years ago

madmiguelh2o that ain't no grade 3 more like 4-5

madmiguelh2o - 11 years ago

dude! head comes up last!

Eric Newton - 11 years ago

Personally I wouldn't recommend going into class IV rapids without a solid roll, but I guess its okay since he had a few experts around to clean up. Also not as if there's any keeper holes in that section, just big wave trains. I just hope people don't watch this video and think they can go run class IV's without a roll...

TheAnticapitor - 11 years ago

he flipped on the easy rapids and rode through the difficult ones without a problem in the class IV. How'd he manage that?

Jack Sladden - 11 years ago

Who ever thought that iy only takes a week to get to class 4 is... well not right

Jerry Curtis - 11 years ago

Cannot believe this guy did know this roll, he has no business out there, must have more money than brains

holly priddy - 11 years ago

Joby is a tad dramatic, it's not the end of the world if you can't make the class 4 rapids.

Chris Noland - 11 years ago

Does anyone know the type/brand of paddle that Chris Spelius is using? The wooden shaft with carbon? blades?

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mokotramp - 11 years ago

Well done mate! Your rescue team were fantastic too, couldn't have done it without them! !

Sues Lifestyle - 11 years ago

If whitewater rafting is scary for you, try out some other adventure activities they are all fun. Check my video to see where I had fun.

elfenvine - 11 years ago

I can so relate: Bobbling, rolling, rollilng and crying! That is some sick fast water! That is one hell of an accomplishment!

Uttam Gala - 11 years ago

lol the adventurist.. crying like an emotional bitch

Alex Bush - 11 years ago

The Adventurist - Looking for new ways to activate... Can guess where this guy is from!

Danny H - 11 years ago

Holy cow! keep your head down, you can breath after you roll. Pretty impressive for 1 week though.

chris love - 11 years ago

at the end of the day, how many kayakers here can say they could do all that after their first week of kayaking.

christian noon - 11 years ago

OH SHIT REALLY MAN TEARS, COME ON. YOUR GETTIN PAID FOR THIS.

christian noon - 11 years ago

NAH LENS LOOSEEANA? HILLBILLIE ROLL YOUR ASS OUT THAT WATER SON.

christian noon - 11 years ago

DEF NEEDED A 1980'S SPORTS MONTAGE

Hugh Canard - 11 years ago

He did really well considering his roll was consistently 'head up', and he didn't get the hang of railing in those laterals.

Aaron Lieberman - 11 years ago

Amen, brother.

MrAddicted2net - 11 years ago

I started in a canoe on class 1-2 and stayed in a canoe I just got a canoe designed for Whitewater class 2-4+...A canoe is much more comfortable and more challenging :D

TheHikingDiva - 12 years ago

A high-5 to him for completing it but he doesn't know what he doesn't know. The issue I have with this is endangering others - those that would have to rescue his butt. Laughed out loud as his description of Class IV rapids. If he had more emphasis on bracing, he wouldn't have had so many opportunities to "improve" his roll. Never seen a swim so overdramatized. Don't we all learn more from our swims (unless you're an idiot)? I've never had so much fun getting my arse kicked.

Solange Peyssard - 12 years ago

Crying or not crying that's is the question ! L'important c'est de remonter dans son kayak et de s'accrocher. C'est bien d'apprendre à eskimauter avant de savoir naviguer, mais...

mesabott9 - 12 years ago

I miss this place. Nice work Joby!

murfleblurg - 12 years ago

yeah, it's a shame really that he never really got a decent roll. A bit more time spent on that, with a better teacher, would have made a lot of difference - he kept coming out of his boat, exhausting himself, and eventually tearing up his shoulder, all for lack of a move that was easily within his grasp.

murfleblurg - 12 years ago

I agree - I think he did amazingly well. Really impressive.

murfleblurg - 12 years ago

He needed a montage.

Michael Crane - 12 years ago

Theres no crying in kayaking.

Michael Crane - 12 years ago

Im surprised he can roll up with his head that far off his shoulders...

MnktoDave - 12 years ago

I think it's pretty awesome that he could learn to roll, and build his skills enough to paddle that in just a week!...good job!

Connor Coultas - 12 years ago

The JacksonKayak method for teaching the roll only takes like 30 minutes. storngly reommend checking it out if you havn't.

Connor Coultas - 12 years ago

Rolling has nothing to do with strenght as long as you do it right.

Connor Coultas - 12 years ago

When you rush the sport like this you miss all of the amazing aspects of it.

Connor Coultas - 12 years ago

Me too and im thirteen too. lol

Tom Vaughan - 12 years ago

im 13 and i can get a better line in a playboat

George Smith - 12 years ago

I think I would be able to do it, on my first ever whitewater I went o Grade 3 for 2 days and didn't capsize once

Chucknorris - 12 years ago

honestly you have no idea, my channel has no bearing on the level of kayaking that i do, if i had a go pro i would show you some of the rivers i paddle on a regular basis, i have been kayaking for 22 years and believe me i have done some major white water, the water in this clip is nothing short of a trickle in comparison

Eoghan King - 12 years ago

he is shit little or no edging

dtroy15 - 12 years ago

really? just went to your channel. you have no room to complain.

Chucknorris - 12 years ago

this vid is greatly over exaggerated, i run this stuff in tiny playboats, its not as hard as these dumb americans make it out to be

Dylan Ivers - 12 years ago

how did you apply for this? i want to do it !

Brawlsack - 12 years ago

You'd be changing your undies for the 3rd time by 40 seconds.

tubeneophyte - 12 years ago

very impressive! I was amazed that Joby stayed in his kayak when he flipped on a pillow (45:57 – 46:16) and got caught upside down on a turbulent eddy fence - he persisted and rolled up exhibiting skill way beyond his experience level. I think I'll refer new paddlers to this film so they can experience what is possible.

North East Whitewater - 12 years ago

Spectacular !

Duncan Farrow - 12 years ago

Class six is runnable with serious danger to life or limb.

mrgreenpagan - 12 years ago

class 6 is unrunable. once it becomes run it becomes a class

x0einstein0x - 12 years ago

While the whitewater footage is interesting, that guy's blabbering and the dramatic music is extremely annoying.

Dave Hathaway - 12 years ago

For those who really want to learn how to roll a kayak... check out anybodycankayak ...I used their videos and taught my self a couple different rolls.

falconerpdx - 7 years ago

Thanks. Checked their site out and will definitely order dvds soon.

Rob Compton - 12 years ago

That's only class 4? I must be blind.

dojo149 - 12 years ago

he said all of the classes but class 6

Jason Phillips - 12 years ago

Mad props to Joby for conquering his fear. I would imagine the wing suit he puts on in another video is way more dangerous. But water has a special place with fear. Its a prolonged beat down amounting to torture before the end. The boil line he rolled in wasn't an easy place to roll. Great job and great video.

Adam Holeman - 12 years ago

lol Ive been white water rafting since I was just a small kid (Im 18 now) and kayaking for three years. I took my friend who had never even been in a kayak before and he made it down a class four. But the class four rapids where I live are closer to a class three size, but still.

eowdaoc - 12 years ago

where are u, 720p??

adamdoyle3 - 12 years ago

I'm 18 and I've been kayaking for about 7 years now, i regularly kayak CL 3-4 and am starting to be asked to go on CL5 and this really reminded me that what we do is not safe, and it takes allot of practice. he has allot of guts doing this, i would have never thought anyone would ever achieve something like this. even CL3 in a week is amazing

Justin Worth - 12 years ago

dude got the hardest part down.... the roll in like 6 hours!. The rest take time on the river!

Jimmy D - 12 years ago

Spent a year doing CL2, the following year I ran CL3 and marginal 4. That was 2005. Up until I got to Florida last year, I really have not done CL5. A much faster learning curve would have been had if I had a good play wave/hole within a half hour reach. If you have a good play feature on a CL2-3 without hazards, it will really speed up your skill for rivers, even creeking. If you can get to a sticky hole, one that skill is needed to get out but pushes you out if you wet exit, even better.

Anonymouse - 12 years ago

-_-

Anonymouse - 12 years ago

Yeah. I guess but its hard to do the harder stuff

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Anonymouse - 12 years ago

Wow i'm a beginner And I have done Class Two. I'm kinda young so i cant roll. When i get older ill be able to do it. I want to really Try Class 5 one day. That moment when i do my first class five ill be crying. Just like him expect way more overreacting