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Put Your Leash On – A Downwind Mishap

17 Sep 2015

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If you are still doubting the importance of wearing a leash during a Stand Up Paddle session, this video should help you. How to go from having downwind fun to catastrophe due to, not one, but two leashes missing.  Watch until the end. 

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