Beyond The Eddy Line podcast

My guest, Annelisa Pedersen, offers a unique approach to paddling development.

As a kayak instructor, classical musician, and somatic movement teacher, she helps paddlers build strength, stability, and mobility through deeper body awareness. In this episode we explore how sensory awareness and refined technique can help paddlers build confidence and move more fluidly. Annelisa provides some ideas for a dry land practice for paddlers.

Happy new year Paddlers!

In the third part of my conversation with J.F. Marleau, we explore what it means to live as sustainably as possible. He shares how fishing, foraging, hunting, and harvesting have become an essential part of his life.

He also explains key considerations for fishing while kayaking and his best recipe for cooked seaweed. This episode brings the conversation full circle, grounding expedition paddling in respect for place, resources, and self-reliance.

Kayak fishing course and trips: https://skils.ca/kayak-fishing/

In this second part of my conversation with J.F. Marleau, we talk about his role as a lighthouse relief keeper, while he and his partner were stationed at the Nootka Island Lighthouse.

Along the BC coast, there are 27 active staffed lighthouses, and J.F. shares what that responsibility really looks like. The daily weather observations that being report so vessels of all kinds, including kayakers, rely on for safe travel, repair and maintenance.

There isn’t much kayaking during this kind of duty, but there’s no shortage of storms and wildlife. J.F. shar...

In this episode I’m joined by J.F. Marleau, co-owner of SKILS https://skils.ca/ on Vancouver Island, now semi-retired after more than two decades of teaching and leading paddlers on big, advanced expeditions.

J.F. has spent over 20 years teaching coursed and taking paddlers into remote, powerful environments, pushing limits and embracing the realities of true wilderness travel. In this conversation he shares stories from some of his most extreme expeditions like Haida Gwaii and Antarctica where you’re no longer at the top of the food chain—and why that challenge keeps calling him back...

Today’s guest is a true play boater at heart. Chessy Knight, from Squamish, BC, is a Paddle Canada rolling instructor with a deep love for Greenland paddle techniques. In this episode, we talk about boat fitting, her favorite Greenland paddle, and how she brings those rolling skills into dynamic water.

In our very first episode, we’re joined by Spencer Jones — a rough-water sea kayaker known throughout the paddling community for pushing boundaries in some of the most powerful tidal conditions on the planet.

Spencer has become especially recognized for his feats at Skookumchuck Narrows in British Columbia, Canada — a world-class tidal rapid where, during the biggest tides of the year, a massive standing wave forms.

Paddling Skookumchuck demands precision, confidence, and deep respect for the ocean’s power, and Spencer has built a reputation for meeting that challenge head-on.

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