Fairwell Tao!

[HarryWats0n]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxSDdaHzTJM

[Dave Manby]

Oh yeah? How soon the come back?

[Poke]

Oh yeah? How soon the come back?

Cynic :-)

Impressive waves...
Though what I really want to see is the beatdowns reel... Now that would be epic!

[DaveBland]

Not sure I see the big deal. I've watched loads of Waveski vids with equally big waves.

[slaughter950]

Whats everyones opinion on Tao? I personally think he is a bit of a knob with balls of steel.
Might be controversial...

[HarryWats0n]

One of my friends was telling me a story, As for it's credibility, I don't know.

Little White Salmon River - one of the hardest grade 5 rivers in the World.

Some guys are in a group about to put on the river, one of them has forget their helmet. Tao rocks up to solo paddle the river. He then gives this guy his helmet, and proceeds to solo the LWS without a helmet!

[Jones Chris]

For some reason it really annoys me that someone with his talent can just say, "that's it I'm gonna give up kayaking." I hope he means pro boating/ extreme stuff and not he's not getting in a boat again. Otherwise where is the passion, the dedication and the love that most people on here exhibit.

If he can give it all up just like that then to me he doesn't deserve the success he's had.

Chris

[jmmoxon]

But if you're naturally talented at something then you don't find it as challenging as those of us who have to work at it & thus not as interesting, so it is easier to move on to something else...

Mike

[Dave Manby]

But if you're naturally talented at something then you don't find it as challenging as those of us who have to work at it & thus not as interesting, so it is easier to move on to something else...

Mike

Rick Paris is the most impressive guy who gave up the sport. He hand paddled a big stretch of the N.F of the Payette and was one of the original Stikine team (with Lesser, Wasson, Banducci and Holbeck). Soon after the Stikine run moved to the Bay Area just as windsurfing was taking off - he switched sports and stopped kayaking. He never swam in his whole kayaking career. No idea about his windsurfing career.

Doesn't alter the fact that Tao was/is allegedly an "arrogant little brat".

[HarryWats0n]

http://www.canoekayak.com/whitewater-ka ... ao-berman/

[Sickboy]

I'm sure he could have pushed the deal a little further, maybe something a little more, you know, extreme.
Mavericks, then if he was still feeling like theres nothing left Cyclops

Good luck to him though, hes done some great videos.

[Croft]

Maybe he is going to run for President?

[Sickboy]

Maybe he is going to run for President?

Not sure he'd be allowed, I've never heard him mention jesus or the bible..

[Chrace]

Oh yeah? How soon the come back?

Cynic :-)

Not at all cynical. It's in his blood, he'll be back.

[Tom_Laws]

Whats everyones opinion on Tao? I personally think he is a bit of a knob with balls of steel.
Might be controversial...

Not met him, wouldn't be fair to comment....



My mate's girlfriend's dad shagged his mum

[SimonMW]

To be fair I think the video gives a false impression. In the written interview with him he states that he is retiring from professional paddling, but that he still wants to do things like running the Little White Salmon river at higher levels than anyone else has done it in the future.

[feelingjustfine]

Whats everyones opinion on Tao? I personally think he is a bit of a knob with balls of steel.
Might be controversial...

Not met him, wouldn't be fair to comment....



My mate's girlfriend's dad shagged his mum

Silver Moon if I'm not mistaken...

[Big Henry]

Taken from http://www.canoekayak.com/whitewater-kayak/end-game-tao-berman/:

“Look, you have to know how to monetize your story. If you ask a lot of kayakers how they’re going to monetize their press, it’d take them a minute to know what ‘monetize’ means.”

W..........T..........F!?! Made up word alert! Monetize! They take a minute because it's not a real word and need to work out what in hell's name you are on about!

[Poke]

W..........T..........F!?! Made up word alert! Monetize! They take a minute because it's not a real word and need to work out what in hell's name you are on about!

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/monetise

mon·e·tize   /ˈmɒnɪˌtaɪz, ˈmʌn-/ Show Spelled[mon-i-tahyz, muhn-] Show IPA
verb (used with object), -tized, -tiz·ing.
1. .....
2. .....
3. .....
4. Economics . to convert (a debt, especially the national debt) into currency, especially by issuing government securities or notes.

Origin:
1880, from L. moneta money (see money) + -ize

[Big Henry]

W..........T..........F!?! Made up word alert! Monetize! They take a minute because it's not a real word and need to work out what in hell's name you are on about!

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/monetise

mon·e·tize   /ˈmɒnɪˌtaɪz, ˈmʌn-/ Show Spelled[mon-i-tahyz, muhn-] Show IPA
verb (used with object), -tized, -tiz·ing.
1. .....
2. .....
3. .....
4. Economics . to convert (a debt, especially the national debt) into currency, especially by issuing government securities or notes.

Origin:
1880, from L. moneta money (see money) + -ize

There is no such thing as American English. There's English and there are mistakes!

Alternatively:

Monetize: from Monet - Claude Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant).

-ize - 3/4 of the word size, therefore to make smaller to 75% of how big it originally was.

Giving:

Monetize - to reduce a dead painter by 25%.

[Dave Manby]

W..........T..........F!?! Made up word alert! Monetize! They take a minute because it's not a real word and need to work out what in hell's name you are on about!

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/monetise

mon·e·tize   /ˈmɒnɪˌtaɪz, ˈmʌn-/ Show Spelled[mon-i-tahyz, muhn-] Show IPA
verb (used with object), -tized, -tiz·ing.
1. .....
2. .....
3. .....
4. Economics . to convert (a debt, especially the national debt) into currency, especially by issuing government securities or notes.

Origin:
1880, from L. moneta money (see money) + -ize

There is no such thing as American English. There's English and there are mistakes!

Alternatively:

Monetize: from Monet - Claude Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant).

-ize - 3/4 of the word size, therefore to make smaller to 75% of how big it originally was.

Giving:

Monetize - to reduce a dead painter by 25%.

Bloody 'ell an etymologist in our midst!

[Big Henry]

Bloody 'ell an etymologist in our midst!

Sorry, I don't know anything about insects. ;->

[Dave Manby]

Bloody 'ell an etymologist in our midst!

Sorry, I don't know anything about insects. ;->

But I think entomologists do:-) (not sure how all this :-::-)> works).

[Big Henry]

Tilt your head to the left to view the text smiley, so ;-> becomes a smile with a winking eye (signifying that I was mixing etymology and entomology up for humourous effect!)

[howhardcanitbe]

I met Tao on the Wenatchee river in Washington state, he's from round there by all accounts, I'd not been paddling long so didnt know who he was until I got off the river and one of the other lads told me. I'd just missed getting onto a wave, he paddled over, gave me a couple of tips and carried on his way - from that meeting, nice bloke, his arrogance or perceived by some may well be part of the image that is Tao the industry.

[Adrian Cooper]

Are you sure than wasn't his twin brother, Oat?

[banzer]

I met Justin-G on a river once. Similarly, he's much nicer than people make out.

[SwamP]

But if you're naturally talented at something then you don't find it as challenging as those of us who have to work at it & thus not as interesting, so it is easier to move on to something else...

Mike

Rick Paris is the most impressive guy who gave up the sport. He hand paddled a big stretch of the N.F of the Payette and was one of the original Stikine team (with Lesser, Wasson, Banducci and Holbeck). Soon after the Stikine run moved to the Bay Area just as windsurfing was taking off - he switched sports and stopped kayaking. He never swam in his whole kayaking career. No idea about his windsurfing career.

Doesn't alter the fact that Tao was/is allegedly an "arrogant little brat".

I found that update very interesting!

And true, arrogant and brat both seem like apt observations of the midget nipple show'er in question.

Anyway Lost legends (dead and alive) would be a nice thread if it contained stories and photos. (not just names, that would be gash!)

:)