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        <title><![CDATA[Olivier's Blog: kayaking, skating, etc...]]></title>
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    <title><![CDATA[Mojo Rojo (aka. DaReds) freeboard wheels for 2026]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 06:45:16 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I just received my new Mojo Rojo wheels, which are similar in shape to the DaBlues, hence the nickname "DaReds". I bought them not because I was out of wheels and absolutely needed new ones, but to see if they'd work better than DaBlues on my carbon flangers.... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Two carbon freeboards ready for the season]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 11:36:06 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I continued working on my carbon freeboards over the last few months. I had already introduced them in a previous post and also explained my building techniques. Now, exactly two years after the first prototypes, I have reached a major milestone, with... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Freeboard: To have a rocker or not to have... this is the question]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:18:47 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Freeboard (or FREEBORD as per the name of the pioneer manufacturer) is a 6-wheel skateboard that reproduces the sensations of a snowboard on the road. Traditionally, the edge wheels are off the ground, creating a "rocker" when transitioning from edge... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Building a carbon freeboard: Details from behind the scene (2024-2026)]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:12:15 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I already wrote about the current "final" version of my carbon freeboard there. Up to that point (early 2026), the board had already been for almost 2 years in the making. So here, I want to give more info about the building techniques which I have used,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Skateboard suspension (2021-2022)]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 12:58:33 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[It all started through a Kickstarter crowdfunding for a skateboard suspension: the cruz control boost plate. When I received it, I was disappointed because these metal pieces were super heavy (500g each if I recall well) and completely stiff, at least... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Light Carbon Freeboard]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 21:44:11 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[How light can a freeboard get? Freeboards are notably quite heavy, owing to the fact that they have 6 wheels and bindings. The FB 5 and 5x are respectively roughly 5.5 and 6 kg. This is quite a weight to carry around and under your feet, so I set myself... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[25 years of custom kayak building]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://panipio.over-blog.com/2026/01/25-years-of-custom-kayak-shaping.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 06:19:31 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I started kayaking in 1995 (I was then 13 yrs old) in Toulouse, southern France. The region was a breeding ground for some famous kayak shapers and manufacturers, in particular ZigZag (competition composite kayaks) and GuiGui Prod (maybe the most successful... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Freeboarding is like finless (kayak) surfing]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 22:16:55 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I love freeboarding, but probably not exactly for the same reason as most freeboarders do. The sport was invented in the late 90's, it is a 6-wheel skateboard that reproduces the movement of a snowboard on the road, to "snowboard the streets" during the... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tournolive]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Longboard 2.1: tuning for carve &amp; slide]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://panipio.over-blog.com/2019/11/longboard-2.1-tuning-for-carve-slide.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 10 Nov 2019 20:54:06 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[It's time for updates about longboarding (meanwhile rather shortboarding, because of the turn :-)). Nothing revolutionary has happened since the last article which I wrote after discovering the carver surfskates. This year (2019), I've just been doing... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Building a surf &amp; freestyle kayak (2019)]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2019 20:46:44 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[My quest for the optimal "surf & freestyle" kayak blend is continuing. This is an evolution from the previous shape from 2016, and from the first one in 2012. The picture below shows the new profile (brown cardboard template) compared to the previous... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Children's Kayak (2018)]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2018 20:47:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[This is a 160 x 50 cm kayak I built for the children. The weird thing is that I can't try it... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Building a short surf kayak (2016)]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 29 Apr 2017 09:52:40 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[After the experience of 2012 when I first built a surf kayak, there were many errors to be corrected on the shape. Overall, the cockpit and the seat were too much to the front (note: I moved the seat backwards later on), and I also wanted to reduce the... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Longboarding 2.0]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 16 Apr 2017 21:39:05 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The season 2016 was quite exciting. Many things happened after riding more or less the same board (Bastl Bolero / Caliber 50 / Orangatang The Keanu) for almost 3 years. First, I discovered the Hoots wheels from Remember. These wheels slide like butter... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tournolive]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Longboarding]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://panipio.over-blog.com/article-longboarding-122042268.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2014 14:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Since I started longboarding in Sept. 2012 I have almost stopped paddling... This is a bit strange for me because I had been so focused on kayaking for almost 20 years. But honestly I was more and more frustrated with kayaking. The last few years I had... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Reverting desertification with a simple method?]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 06:51:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Allan Savory & The Savory Institute (http://www.savoryinstitute.com/) promote Holistic Planned Grazing: a cattle intensification and planned grazing managemant, to stop desertification and regreen the arid regions of the world. Since I started my scientific... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tournolive]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Construction d'un kayak de surf en &quot;one-shot&quot;]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 20:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Cet article décrit la construction d'un kayak de surf court (190 cm), inspiré de kayaks tels que le Element (Fluid), le SRR's et le Max (Mega), ou le Squashtail (Dragorossi). Comme c'est le premier kayak de surf que je concois et que je n'ai jamais testé... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tournolive]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Cloth diapers and paternity leave]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 22:23:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Since the birth of Raphael 2 months ago, we've been using mainly cloth diapers instead of disposable ones. There are different types of cloth diapers but we use mainly flat ones, the most simple type. Here is a short how-to manual for folding and swaddling,... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tournolive]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[New mezzanine bed]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://panipio.over-blog.com/article-new-loft-bed-for-the-whole-family-54376279.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Here is a photo of our good old tree-bed which we demounted with a lot of nostalgia... ... then we started installing the new mezzanine bed (2m10 * 2m90): Here is a try to give a global view of it: Now there are hooks for hanging hammocks: How to climb... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tournolive]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Empty tomatoes]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://panipio.over-blog.com/article-slug-s-tomatoes-55119053.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:59:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I mentioned in a previous article that slugs are a nasty pest in our garden... Here the proof: The garden is far away from where we live, and because we had no time to take care of them the tomatoes grew too close to the soil where the slugs are. ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tournolive]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bicycles in Amsterdam]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://panipio.over-blog.com/article-bicycles-in-amsterdam-54509315.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[While visiting the Netherlands, one of the most amazing things for me were the few hundred thousands of bicycles in Amsterdam. First, there are giant parkplaces but generally there are bicycles chained everywhere... there are familybikes... lying bikes...... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tournolive]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Big Wave in Amstetten]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://panipio.over-blog.com/article-big-wave-in-amstetten-51626417.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 23:36:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[This wave on the Ybbs in Amstetten (Austria) only appears at high water level (350 to 500 cm at the station "Opponitz", see www.kajak.at in Flussinfo>Online Pegel>Niederösterreich). After the heavy rains yesterday, there has been a lot of water during... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tournolive]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Stern stall]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://panipio.over-blog.com/article-stern-stall-51567662.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 23:48:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A session of flatwater training on a lake near Vienna. Good for the balance... Although sometimes eskimo roll without paddle doesn't work... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tournolive]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Garden 2010: No-till maize trial &amp; other experiments]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://panipio.over-blog.com/article-garden-2010-no-till-maize-trial-other-experiments-50432845.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 21:03:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[This year we will probably be in Vienna for a large part of the summer, and we've just found a community garden for growing some vegetables. But because I am interested in agriculture and not only in gardening, I started an experiment with maize in a... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tournolive]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Videos sur l'agriculture sans labour]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://panipio.over-blog.com/article-diverses-videos-sur-l-agriculture-sans-labour-48975856.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:37:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Voila quelques videos sur l'agriculture sans labour. Sans commentaire, elles parlent d'elles memes: ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tournolive]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Strawberry juce for all]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://panipio.over-blog.com/article-strawberry-juce-for-all-48007613.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:07:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[It is often a difficult question when you are invited: what do I bring to my hosts...? Here is a new strategy that I started using. I go to my local supermarket, preferably after it has closed, and find the garbage where the unsold goods are disposed... ]]></description>
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