Paul Kuthe

Paul Kuthe — Paddler

Paul grew up paddling.  A canoe. A kayak. An intertube. You name it.  The river was the place that he and his father escaped to. During a long weekend to Colorado’s Arkansas River, Paul’s father suffered a massive heart attack while paddling.  Terrified of the water, Paul decided that he would continue to boat. Now, Paul, 26, has found himself at the center of sea kayaking, and pushing the traditional limits. He and his core group of friends have been applying a white water boater’s style to the nooks and crannies of shoreline where ocean becomes river. This summer, Paul and his team traveled to the Butze Rapids, one of the world’s largest tidal rapids deep in the heart of British Columbia’s unforgiving coastline. Paul discovered that it’s easy to talk about changing a sport, but it takes character to push the standard.