At least it's giving you good roll practice! Interesting to hear different perspectives. Just got one and I feel like it really takes care of me. Stern never gets grabby river running, but you can still stern squirt great, surfs even better, and I can load the tail to boof waves and holes like a champ. My new favorite boat. All that being said it does tend to have more the tail of a full slice then a half slice. For reference I'm 6'1 and 215 lbs. and I have the seat in the center. Keep at it and it will for sure make you a better boater instead of a beater boater. LoL!
The whitewater park is a strange animal. It has strong eddy lines. It's very boily and that likely contributed to the chaos. I'm going to give it more love.
Thanks for a different perspective. All the other reviews I’ve seen are from advanced boaters talking about how great it is. I still plan on demoing one hopefully soon.
From all your other videos, you appear to be a solid paddler. I appreciate you're not at the level that some of the all-day-everyday-every-river paddler reviewers are. Not that i was ever gonna consider the Hot Whip anyway.
I let two of my friends try it and they loved it. They didn't beater around in it like I did! As a sidebar I took it to roll practice last night and almost got my first stern squirt in flatwater. As wild as this beast is I think it has loads of play potential!
