Matt Cooke brings a quick Norway edit for Team Pyranha. The full Team Tour movie will be out for Pyranha Festival. Matt gives a huge thanks to Substantial Media House for their support in Norway and to Andy Phillips David Bain and Anton Immler for some sick boating and a great final stage to our Team tour.

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The Substantial TV takes on Fantasy Falls in California in this new 15 minute whitewater video. Fantasy Falls is one of the most demanding and difficult runs in CA and the crew pushed through 20+ miles of Class V-V+ with only 3 portages. Enjoy watching epic descents of The Untouchables Gorge, Jedi Mind Melt, Island Slide, The Thing, and get a feel for how amazing and wild California actually is!

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Substantial TV is back with a short edit from the Rio Blanco, Aregentina. Evan Garvia, his little brother Nate Garcia, Matias Nunez, and Derek Beitler drove deep into the Patagonia Mountains to run one of the most beautiful South American rivers. The Rio Blanco is 4 miles of clean class V drops and rapids with no portages and drinkable water. Amazing.

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In the Pacific Northwest, water is abundant and of the freshest variety. Old volcanic spillways have carved some of the most classic and stout river beds known to man kind. The Substantial TV crew take to the Columbia gorge to... Go To Church! Watch as the boys enjoy the Holy Waters in this episode 5 teaser.

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The guys at Substantial Media House have a special tasty treat for you today. They don't normally do freestyle kayaking videos but this is STAKEOUT! Enjoy some amazing wave surfing from some of the sports best at The Ruins in Ottawa. This wave is one of the greats in big wave surfing. Sit back, press play and enjoy!

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Substantial TV brings us another awesome whitewater kayaking video. This one features the crew styling a run on the Green Truss of the White Salmon River in Washington state. Sick edit with some huge levels. Check it out for sure.

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Watch the Substantial crew, while based out of Pucon, explore the old classics of the area as well as finding new waterfalls. The crew then follows the Whitewater Gran Prix from Pucon to Futaleufu. After weeks of racing, and heavy rainfall the crew returns to Pucon and spend the last couple weeks of the trip enjoying the classic whitewater in the Chilean sunshine.

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It's Friday, the rivers are flowing AND there is a new Substantial TV short edit. Today is a good day. Watch Evan, Isaac Levinson and Nate Garcia tackle the Rio Florin in Lago Ranco, one of the steepest runs in Chile. Enjoy.

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This past Saturday, I got to try out and review the new Jackson Kayak SUPerCHARGER SUP. I had never been on a stand up paddleboard before so I was a bit anxious. Read more to find out all the details on this new whitewater SUP and see how I did.

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The Substantial TV guys have a new tasty treat for us today. Here is a short edit from a fun day they had on the Roadside Section of the Rio Alseseca during their October 2012 Mexico trip. Check it out.

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Check out a teaser for the new Substantial TV EP. 4 called Balls and Elbow Pads. The gang was told that when whitewater paddling in Chile, you had better bring some balls and elbow pads and they were right. From the Whitewater Grand Prix to substantial hucks, this vid has it all.

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It's here! In the third episode of Substantial TV, the boys travel to the whitewater kayaking paradise of Tlapacoyan, Veracruz, Mexico. Check out their adventures as they paddle the Big Banana, Truchas, Roadside, and Tomatas sections of the Alseseca river, the Xico river, the upper and lower Rio Jalacingo and more.

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So I found myself looking for some info about the fabeled Stakeout 2 that is supposed to come out at some point in time... Anyway, I stumbled upon this old video and had to post it up. Ben Marr hitting a pretty substantial slide while drinking a beer. Epic.

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The guys from Substantial Media House bring us a teaser for their latest upcoming episode of Substantial TV, Viva La Agua Blanca. This is the third episode in the series and it looks just as awesome as the first two. Check it out and stay tuned for the full release!

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Ben Marr REALLY upped the ante this year with his Best Drop entry for the Rider of the Year Awards. Benny notched the first complete decent of Site Zed in the Grand Canyon of the Stikine River, one of the most brutal and committing whitewater rivers in the world.

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TiTS DEEP has just released a trailer for a short film releasing February 10th - the Whitewater Kayaking Chapter. TiTS DEEP is about ladies who are charging in Extreme Sports. They are real, powerful, and bring the most substantial amount of style, and ease into everything they do. Check it.

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Early in the fall, the Substantial crew headed to the Grand Canyon of the Stikine, which holds some of the biggest, gnarliest whitewater on planet earth. Watch as they kayak some seriously substantial whitewater including not only the Stikine but some additional BC rivers as well such as the Ashlu Box, Tatlow Creek, and Fear Canyon.

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Substantial Media House is back with another awesome vid. This is a teaser for Episode 2, BC. While the focus is on the mighty Stikine, which includes a first decent of Site Zed by Ben Marr, they also hit up the Ashlu Box, Tatlow Creek, and Fear Canyon of the Elaho.

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On a little break from trotting the globe, Team Substantial was in Bozeman, MT preparing for an upcoming Mexico trip. After realizing that the Malad River in Southern Idaho was at a good level for running the Devil's Washbowl, the crew headed out to run the substantial stout.

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Palo and Tomo Andrassy present a short edit of a trip in Norway this year. Rocking some ZET Kayaks, they are charging hard in this video. Whitewater kayakers the world over dream about running the brown in Norway. So beautiful and so substantial.

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