Shaun Baker has to equally crazy ways of descending through the torrents of a waterfall in a small kayak. He either paddles through a series of boulders that could smash him and his boat to pieces, or pushes his bout out into the air so that he free-falls through the air into the water below.
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He calls this extreme kayaking, Others maybe tempted to translate this as sheer lunacy
-----professional white-water rodeo* champion from just outside Maidenhead
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if i'm honest , it scares the life out of me
---- the real kick is when you hit the bottom and reappear from under the water .
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Apart from various national white water rodeo championship wins, Baker also holds the record for the highest free-fall waterfall drop in a kayak, as well as the world speed altitude drop of 50 metres. He is just about the only regular extreme kayaker in the 40 world.