Rush Sturges running pool/drop with hand rolls

[chrishenderson1983]

i would love to have been reading his mind while this happend. well done most would have bailed long b4 u did.

[Taylorvanaaken]

that was unreal, way to hold it together till the bottom.



[BANKSYSKNAB]

WOW!  awesome!!!

[pedro583]

@Boilerblues Just because you can run doesn't mean it automatically drops from grade VI to V. These guys are already running shit that no one 10 years ago would have gone near. The very reason most of these guys paddle with such motivation (and sponsoring) is because they are dedicated to making the unrunnable runnable.

[Gonwyld]

Thats the main problem with watching video's about extreme sports. Gifted and talented people make places like Cherry Creek and Ausable Gorge look like a walk in the park. Noobs look at the video's and convince themselves that they can do it too........... Ummmm No you can't.

[MrDazzaster]

@Gonwyld - You obviously have no Idea who Rush Sturges is. He's definately not, as you called him, a "noob".

[triplestan666]

I remember watching that go down Rush is a crazy mofo I thought he was done for. I love YouTube comments. ha you people are so dumb. Nice radio commentary by Billy Jones haha.

[bpressnall]

Now I know where the sayin' "Up shit creek without a paddle" came from! Yeah that's Cherry Creek, one of the most awesome canyons in the world!

[jonnybravo2001]

crazy!!

[ajghkasjgfklahlghalf]

that didn't look like it took any skill

i would be impressed if he made it down without bailing but all he did was continuously wipe out and roll back over

balls? yes

skill? i don't think so

[kiksurbals]

are you fucking retarded?? I'd like to see you in there without a paddle and see how you'd do.

[sbeck206]

Obviously your a dumb ass. I'd like to see you do that many hand rolls through drops like that. Do everyone here a favor and keep your dumbass comments to yourself.

[riveroo8]

It take skill to fucking hand roll in a pool let alone this shit,Fuck its hard to roll in this kinda water with a paddle!NO skill???wtf are you talking about

[woodman916]

SUPER SWEET!!!!

[madmiguelh2o]

FYI, the portage around Cherrybomb is easy and beautiful. Rush at least didn't get sucked into the pothole on the right which is virtually impossible to swim out of. At that flow i can only imagine.

[olaschico]

so - is there a sieve or sump in the runout to this section? he has serious skill to do that many handrolls and keep it together for as long as he did.

[vivitar45]

he should had a string tied to the padle so he will no loose it they can be expensive to loose

[Boilerblues]

Not a good idea. Tying a rope to a paddle is a good way to get strangled in whitewater.

[jeremymcoy1e]

yeah and the fact that he snapped that paddle in that first hole you didnt see him roll up with half a paddle?

[madmiguelh2o]

it was broken, he threw it.

[riveroo8]

OH shit! do people think at all before they post?Fuck losing an expensive paddle,worry about losing your life dip shit

[henchmanguru]

@vivitar45 his paddle snapped in half so string would not have helped

[dmgsboy]

@vivitar45 they get free paddles

[ShortGrumpyKayaker]

Balls of steel.

Savage paddling or should that be handing?

[kinekcinek]

this guy is inmortal :-) hehe

[fude45]

skills hats off all round

[martman800]

bad ass...fuck the paddle.

[fubarjew]

first of all robhendy guy its upper cherry creek class 5+ and one of the most comitting gorges in the entire united states, second of all we all know only brits call it "grade 5" and the reason you dont think its "grade 5" is because you apparently lack the ability to run the class of water

[stanounet1]

Oh yeah

[RobHendy]

Is awesome. most people would call that grade 5 too, personally i dont think its grade 5 if that can be done (excluding first drop)

[Boilerblues]

Under the AW rating system, it would be a Class V+. Class VI is considered unrunnable.

[madmiguelh2o]

@RobHendy yer right its class 3. you should do it a little higher in a duckie.

[sssshatch]

what creek is this? and where?

[Boilerblues]

I think it's Upper Cherry Creek in CA.

[gryfrst56]

Sick video. Amazing paddler.

[lesatseaside]

amazing handrolls, just sick.

 I can hardly do that in flat water... and he did that in those pool drops? wow.

[mattkayaker]

Yea Hes a badass!

[thamuddler]

damn that was awesome recover, damn near made it

[geeimawesome]

rush is my hero

[mrkayaker]

his everyones hero ! including me