Check out this great edit from Rebecca Baltich on 5 ways to initiate a stern stall.
How many can you do?
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Continue readingAlthough the falls at Rock Island run often in the winter and spring, it’s rare to get the chance in the summer. Luckily due to some issues with the generators they released some water out of the dam, bringing in the spout line and sieve city. It was on the low end, but it was at a level we essentially never see! We knew it was gonna be runnable, but what tricks to throw was the question.
Dane Jackson
Continue readingThis Week on Kayak Support, we headed back to West Virginia and paddled the New River Gorge! We had an epic day working our way down the massive, pool-drop rapids, surfing, and of course, getting flipped! In this episode, we talk through what I learned about combat rolls in big water and show you some of my lines down this all-time classic river! YEW!
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Continue readingThe 4th video in the series shows how the shoulders and chest contribute to the generation of power and how they conserve the power and keep it contained in the body and boat.
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If you are using ropes on the water then there a number of knots that you really should know. This edit from Jez Jezz gives a run through the basics and possible applications.
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Check out this great edit from Plas y Brenin.
Have you got your roll working indoors, but always go swimming when you try outside?
Continue readingIn this video the Aquabatics Calgary team explain and demonstrate how to ‘get off the freight train’ of running rapids.
This tutorial highlights how to use cross current speed in rapids to start catching and tagging eddies to slow downstream momentum and to give more control and create time.
Continue readingIf you spend time on or around water at some point you will take a swim. Â Check out this great edit form Chris Brain and the guys from Palm Equipment on how to do it right.
Now this doesn’t mean that Chris swims a lot, simply that Chris knows the right way to do it.
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River signals are key to good communication on the water. But it’s important that the whole crew use and understand the same set of signals.
There are a lot of names to this trick such as the stern squirt, the squirt, the pirouette and the whooppie. But if you watch this video you are now only allowed to call it the Tailee from now on.
Eric Jackson Teaches Whitewater Kayaking – the Bow Pirouette. Although used as a little bit of a promo for the new MixMaster this is great instructional edit showing the steps needed to pull a bow pirouette.
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