Location: North Augusta, SC, USA Sex: Male Birthday: 1962-08-22 Height: 6'0" Weight: 275ish Types of boats you paddle (eg. kayak, raft, C-1, squirt, etc.): WW Kayak; "Recreational" Kayak; homebuilt 16' sailing Yawl First Season (year): 2000 Favorite Class: III Favorite Runs: Broad River (Madison Co., GA)

Personal info: I'm coming back to paddling and rivers after 20+ years away from it. I went through High School in Madison County, GA where I regularly paddled the Broad River in a 14' ABS Old Town canoe (this was in the late 70's.) After I graduated from High School in 1978 I moved to Valdosta for college. Sold the canoe for beer money after realizing S. Georgia rivers were less exciting than N. Georgia's, and took a coupla decades off. The beer worked. I spent 14 years doing undergraduate work - changing majors every time the threat of graduation reared its ugly head - at various colleges in and around Georgia, but never actually graduated with a degree. I spent 1980-87 doing radio for a living (News Director/PD/Air Talent) and have been employed/freelance as a video/multimedia producer and writer since leaving radio. I was also a medic (91B) in the Georgia Army National Guard from 1980-1986. These days I mostly work on longer format video/film/multimedia projects with a pretty strong concentration on training/education applications. I have done extensive work developing ancillary materials to accompany textbooks for high school and college students, including a number of Spanish courses. (If you take Spanish using "Ven conmigo" from HRW, I make several cameo appearances in the video materials...) I'm currently the Staff Writer and a Senior Producer for a production company in South Carolina. I'm working to develop kayak paddling skills, and hope to develop enough to become a confident and competent Class IV paddler. I work in Columbia, SC and live in North Augusta, SC, so my "home" rivers are probably the Saluda and the Savannah. My "Favorite Run" is the river I grew up on - the "Broad" - which runs between Madison and Elbert counties in northeastern GA. I go up and paddle it a few times a year, and even w/o skills it still takes me right back to the summer I was 15!!! I'm single - never found a woman who could tolerate me long enough to marry me, though I've come close a couple of times - and I live in a small house with a big dog. (She's an Old English Mastiff named "Mouse".)I'm an avid golfer - I play 2-3 times a week year round - and for the past year or two I've split my recreational time about equally between golf and paddling. I'm hopeful that this year (2002) I'll have the chance to really work my boating skills up to the point where I can paddle more of what's within a few hours drive of home. (Chattooga/Ocoee/Nantahala/French Broad/etc.) My sole contribution to the world of playboating thus far is my development and naming of the signature "Funkmop" move - the "Inverted Wavetrain Clusterfuck" and numerous variations on the "IWC" theme - which I demonstrate at every available opportunity while paddling. (It involves becoming inverted and then thrashing wildly and ineffectually until eventually swimming - all AFTER running the "difficult" part and then getting trashed below the rapid while trying to eddy out.) The gifted practitioner of the "IWC" is also capable of making the move more exciting by attaining the inverted position BEFORE reaching the rapid. This can add considerably to the difficulty and excitement of the move for the person executing it, and makes it even more enjoyable for spectators.