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About
WaveWalk
Improving and Expanding Your Kayaking Experience
WaveWalk has become a powerhouse of invention and innovation
in personal water sports and recreation. We created a paddle craft that offers more than canoes and kayaks from every aspect, and that anyone can easily sail this small and portable boat while standing and using one hand.
We enable more people to take part in water sports and activities that were previously too uncomfortable, difficult or practically impossible to take part in.
We believe a single personal watercraft should enable its user to
practice multiple sports and activities, and we proved we can offer
such a product for a moderate price.
Our new boat technology is protected by US patent #6,871,608
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Who needs a new type of kayak, and why?
The short answer is "everybody - for every possible reason"...
People have been going on water for
thousands of years
during which they have created and developed many ways of doing so,
including
paddling.
There are hundreds of types of paddling boats in the world, and Native
North
Americans had dozens of different types of canoes and kayaks.
But all those boats had in common the fact they were made to be utility
boats
by and for people with skills, capabilities, habits and needs
significantly
different from those characteristic of modern paddlers.
Modern canoes and kayaks use traditional designs adapted to sports,
touring and
recreation, but the fact they are not initially conceived to serve as
such
causes considerable problems and constraints. This situation
affects millions of paddlers and potential paddlers, and requires a new
type of boat for paddlesports.
A "revolution" in paddlesports boats doesn't sound very good since we
like our boats to be stable and not revolve, and it doesn't seem
appropriate to
say about a new boat that it is "groundbreaking", or even "all
terrain"...
So, what do we believe in and what are we offering?-
WaveWalk wants to deliver the best paddling experience in
every dimension:
First of all, we
believe stability is the most important feature in a boat since it's
the basis
for both comfort and performance.
The ancient root
of the word stability means standing, and we believe the fun, appeal
and
success of a sport has a lot to do with the way it makes us use our
legs,
simply because by nature we are bipedal.
People all
over
the world, including native North Americans have been paddling, poling
and
sculling in the standing position whenever possible.
Polynesians have been surfing standing for centuries. Millions of snowboarders and skiers prefer
to go on snow in the upright position rather than use sleds in a seated
position, and for every
recumbent bicycle there are
thousands of regular
bikes.
Why? -Because standing
is natural and essential to human powered motion, sports and
recreation, so sports
and activities practiced standing are more fun.
From
a different perspective the tremendous success and rapidly increasing
popularity of multi-hull sailboats and motorboats prove the
hydrodynamic advantages of the multi-hull concept.
We believe
that-
- Paddlers should not have to
choose between speed and stability, and they should
get both.
- Paddlers should be able to
go on water like they are used to go on land,
snow and ice, namely standing.
- Paddlesports boats should be
adapted to paddlers and not vice versa, and a
boat should be comfortable and easy to paddle.
- Paddlers should be able to
choose between several paddling positions and not
be forced to stay in one position.
- A kayak should
offer its owner multiple uses, and deliver high
value through versatility.
And that's
what we deliver.
I'd
be very
interested
to
know your thoughts on this,
Yoav
Yoav Rosen
WaveWalk
Email:Yoav
Tel: 1 (617) 916 2250
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