Kayak Practice
As soon as you start shopping for whitewater kayaking gear you realize there are quite a few choices to make about each item, and it can be hard to know what to buy when you don’t have a ton of experience. The stuff’s expensive too, so you really want to buy gear that you won’t want [...]
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Here are three great videos by Shane Benedict from WhitewaterInstruction.com about different types of whitewater kayaking boofs. I posted one of these on here a long time ago but recently found them again and this time read the accompanying notes on their blog, which was also helpful – so here they are all together, with [...]
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If you’re a beginner to intermediate whitewater kayaker around the Seattle area and are looking for people to boat with you might want to check out this sticky thread on Professor Paddle for beginners to organize runs. I always tell people to join the Washington Kayak Club too, because even if you don’t see runs [...]
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If you’re looking for whitewater kayaking classes around the Seattle area, check out the Northwest Outdoor Center on Westlake Avenue in Seattle. I took their five-day Whitewater Fever class nearly ten years ago and I highly recommend it. This is a great class to take if you have a busy schedule and don’t want to buy [...]
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Scott Henderson posted a really poignant account a while ago on Professor Paddle about how he nearly didn’t make it out of a hole on the Middle Middle run on the Snoqualmie – a mostly Class III run with a pretty easy IV section that most of us Seattle area paddlers are used to bombing after [...]
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As usual, after watching videos of my friends creeking Class V, I went searching for some instructional videos on kayaking slalom technique because I know I’m weak in the eddy-catching / boat control department. After plugging around for a while I finally found this awesome site called Canoe Slalom Technique that has a big section [...]
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I’ve been meaning to do a series of posts on the Eskimo roll for a while – I know, this is very optimistic, considering my posting schedule. But I really am passionate about it. Getting a good roll is key to enjoying whitewater kayaking to its full potential – you get to have more fun with [...]
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Shane Benedict from Whitewater Instruction has some nice whitewater kayaking how-to videos on Vimeo, here are two that I found on boofing. This one talks about boofing in general: Here’s one that talks about how to boof into an eddy: There’s more on their Vimeo page, here’s a link to all of the Whitewater Instruction [...]
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I was surfing around this evening looking for videos that might give some pointers on whitewater kayaking slalom technique and came across this one showing Eoin Rheinisch, Dave Ford, James Cartwright, Campbell Walsh, and Laura Blakeman training for the Canoe Slalom Olympic Test Event in Beijing 2007. I can’t say someone like me can pick [...]
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I was surfing around some of the Seattle area whitewater kayaking sites this morning and was reminded to give a shout out for a great beginner whitewater kayaking class offered by Northwest Outdoor Center, it’s the Whitewater Fever course that I took nearly ten years ago and I highly recommend it. (Don’t be like me [...]
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