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Inside: Your Best Year Ever!!! Surf Bus Eater, Bounce Higher, Shoot Better Photos, Start Your Dream Job, Win the Worlds; Freestyle is Dead. Long Live Freestyle: Inside Look at Stat of the Sport; Open Boaters: Change Your Angle Change Your World; Toughest Whitewater Trip Ever; Free Inside: Whitewater Tearout Scorecard;  PLUS Much more...

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Inside: THE LOVE ISSUE-Committed to the Core; Whitewater's Hottest Couples; Paddler Dating Tips Sure to Fail; Weddings We Love (But Her Mother Will Hate); Dirtbag Guide: 100 Ways to Save Money and Paddle More; Another New Waterfall Record; Kent Ford Predicts the Future; Tao Berman is Bored; Go Big, Land Safe; and Much More...

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Inside: The 30 Essential Skills: Paddle, Plan, Rescue and Read the River Like a Pro; Paradise Lost: Last Run of B.C.'s Best River; River Running Boat and Gear Guide; Never Swim Again; CREEKING: High Sierra's One-Hit Wonder;  Best New Solo Canoe; Dagger's Extreme Creeker; Wave Sport's Dream Kayak; PLUS: Why Shon Cottrill is the Toughest Man in Whitewater, and Much More...

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Inside: Best Whitewater Photos of the Year; 8 Top Kayak Surfers and their Favourite Waves and 16 More Breaks Near New; Surf Like Ken Whiting; Fasted Whitewater Tandem; Slave River on the Run; New Liquidlogic Remix; Ottawa's Secret Wave; And Much More...

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