The Show Will Never Die

3/6/06 was a day I Paul Twist will never forget, a good friend passed away, one of the original Team Special Ed members has moved on to the land of new rivers and adventure, on mission to find the perfect wave. Adam Craig Horton was the definition of the pure soul of Kayaking. He was always ready to boat with or without water. He was the creator and brain child of the urban kayaking rail slide, which we all have seen Corey volt put to work in the Revolution kayaking videos.




Adam had a charisma about him a willingness to try new things and go of the beaten path to find him self, immersed in a new pure, one of a kind moment. He was not afraid to fail and did not care if others thought it was dumb, he was an original, one of a kind 100% swell guy. He will always be with us on the river helping us stick the sickest lines we come across.

I feel I speak for the whole team that Adam was Special and he touched so many lives on and of the river and the Shows story will never die as long as all of us remember the great times and the lessons learned from this man, our felling cant be summed up into word, cause they are to powerful and hard to explain. I leave you with a video of a drop that Adam a.k.a Freakshow found in western NY, this drop was his first, first decent. And when you look at his smile it will say everything that I am trying to explain.

Enjoy Adams First
Riot Paul Twist signing of for Team special Ed.

Blue light

I don’t know what to say, so I will sit and type, thinking about you on this cold winter night.

I sit in my room and wonder what could have been or might, why is this so hard to type.

I ask why you felt so alone the other day you could asked and I would have came right away.

I sit here alone not knowing what to say trying to expression my emotion in some sort way, but my hands hurt and shake and don’t know what to do.

They just want to reach up and wipe away my tears, but I can’t because I am afraid, that I will miss a feeling and lose what I want to write.

I don’t know what to say, so I will sit and type, thinking about you on this cold winter night.

I am still here trying to hear your voice travel through the whispering blue light.

I sit here not asking why.

But I want you to know, I will see you on they other side.

It’s just a matter of time before our boats cross the same line.

I know not where you are, but I know you are close, and that makes me feel a little safer on this bitter night.

I don’t know what to say, so I will sit and type, thinking about you on this cold winter night.
I am starting to sweat and my tears are wiped away, I can hear my heart pounding as I am typing away. I feel as if that is your voice traveling through the whispering blue light, then in to my blood, coursing through my veins, and ending up at my heart. There is room for you to stay the night, maybe tomorrow you can help guide and protect me through my day.
I don’t know what to say, so I will sit and type, thinking about you on this cold winter night
The tears have gone away and bricks have been lifted of my chest, I think I have found the way and am getting more comfortable not asking what happened on that sad sad day, I live to remember the great memories that we had, we where a team that looked for the perfect wave the perfect river and the perfect waterfall in the journey we shared. All the rocks we lifted and wrong turns we made, we never realized that paradise we made. This perfect place existed in our minds; it was the moments in time that we did find. We will remember them forever and, no one can take them away, and those memories will be forever ours and I will cherish them until my heart passes away.

I don’t know what to say, so I will sit and type, thinking about you on this cold winter night
I pull up my blanket and turn off the light and I will sleep allot better knowing ALL of US will be alright.
Riot Paul Twist