{"id":187,"date":"2026-09-22T18:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T18:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whitewatervideo.com\/?post_type=aiovg_videos&#038;p=187"},"modified":"2026-09-22T22:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T22:59:12","slug":"open-canoes-on-big-sandy-and-the-day-we-met-jeff-snyder-standing-running-waterfalls-read-description","status":"publish","type":"aiovg_videos","link":"https:\/\/www.whitewatervideo.com\/index.php\/video\/open-canoes-on-big-sandy-and-the-day-we-met-jeff-snyder-standing-running-waterfalls-read-description\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Canoes on Big Sandy and the Day We Met Jeff Snyder Standing Running Waterfalls (read description)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 16, 1995 &#8211; Don Kinser, Milt Aitken &amp; Steve Frazier made a pilgrimage to West Virginia.\u00a0 On our first day, we ran Big Sandy Creek.\u00a0 While waiting in the parking filed for the shuttle ride, a guy showed up with a Ducky and a really long paddle.\u00a0 I asked (condescendingly) if he was going to run the river in that.\u00a0 He said &#8220;Yes, but I stand up&#8221;.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t believe him, but we had a video camera and he wanted some video of it.\u00a0 So, we ran the river, and sure enough, this guy stood in the ducky the whole way and ran 18 ft Wonder Falls standing.\u00a0 Then he ran Big Splat standing, although he wiped out and pinned the ducky on the splat rock.\u00a0 But no big deal, he got out, stood on some unseen rocks under the surface, unpinned it, carried it up and ran Big Splat repeatedly successfully, all while standing.\u00a0 His name was Jeff Snyder and he called it &#8220;Striding&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>For the rest of our week long trip, we told this story and people from all over, including Europe, knew who he was, but all were impressed with the video of him striding over big drops<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 16, 1995 &#8211; Don Kinser, Milt Aitken &amp; Steve Frazier made a pilgrimage to West Virginia.\u00a0 On our first day, we ran Big Sandy Creek.\u00a0 While waiting in the parking filed for the shuttle ride, a guy showed up with a Ducky and a really long paddle.\u00a0 I asked (condescendingly) if he was going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","aiovg_categories":[14,17,10,13,21],"aiovg_tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","aiovg_videos","type-aiovg_videos","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","aiovg_categories-milts-raw-video","aiovg_categories-open-canoeing","aiovg_categories-people-and-paddlerrs","aiovg_categories-raw-video","aiovg_categories-westvirginiausa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitewatervideo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aiovg_videos\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitewatervideo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aiovg_videos"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitewatervideo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/aiovg_videos"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitewatervideo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitewatervideo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitewatervideo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"aiovg_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitewatervideo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aiovg_categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"aiovg_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitewatervideo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aiovg_tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}