I am Bill Dvorak, with Dvorak Kayak and Rafting Expeditions I am a native Colorado and we are going to talk about beginning kayak stokes, and maneuvers here. And then again, the big thing you have to do is be able to have your boat in the straight line and know how actually do your forwards strokes, so that they balance with one another and every time you put a stroke here on the right the boat will move left. So, you have to counter with the left stroke and you have to begin that progressively so as you start moving from side to side, to go down the river you can progressively make that strokes stronger so you actually start progressing down the river.
Alright again, basic strokes just making sure your nose goes in the straight line so you have to sort of feel how hard you paddle in each side and then you get turn around, you do a big sweep stroke, and then you are taking your paddle wide out to the side that can turn your boat all away around. So, we follows the paddle strokes around with his body, so I get his whole torso into it and you can go backwards. This is easy as you go forwards and you got to feel your stroke make sure the tail of your boat does not change direction to much. Joe is coming back down just forward basic strokes, big sweep to get turn around and right back up.
Okay, another basic skill that we try to work on real early is you feel yourself starting to tip on the side of your boat. All you have to do is put a paddle brace out to the side and then hip flick, you hips back up. There is a lower brace which is what they are demonstrating go ahead and do on both sides.
Okay, then there is a high brace where you actually roll your forearms underneath your paddle shaft. When you do a high brace and it is just like putting an outrigger out on the side of the sail boat or a canoe. What it does is it gives you a platform to go ahead and hip flick off it so you can flip your boat back right side up.
Again, the key to this notice how his head comes down, he is not bringing his head up out of the water and real common mistake these people think they need to breathe, and they bring their head out of the water first instead of leaving into last.
You realize the stoke in our basic maneuvers ferry gliding and eddy turning, so that we can keep nose of our boat pointed where we want it to go until we actually make that transition across the eddy fence for ferry gliding we want to maintain that angle all the way across the river so the river actually does his work force if you are going to do a eddy turn and then as soon as we get the nose of the boat across the eddy fence and start to turn us and we just want to follow through with the nice sweep stroke and then maybe a brace on the down stream side until we get stable again.
You can see that we are, we Zoë the water is actually moving back up stream that is call an eddy now what he is going to do is do a transfer out off the eddy across the current into the eddy on the other side and just call the ferry glide, and so that is one of the real basic skills you have to master as for packing is to be able to make a transition from one current to another. And there is two ways to do it one is ferry guide back and forth like this guy are doing, and see how this sort of change I mean as I come out of the down stream current and the eddy current, and then in the minute here we will go ahead and get them to do a couple of this eddy turns.
There they is going to come across for another ferry glide now, see how he angles his boat up stream in about of 40 to 50 degree angle, big stroke in the down stream side as he enters the current. Try to keep his boat straight as possible and then just paddle across, and then just paddle across and then changes lane to get into the current on this side which is again the eddy current is going back up stream.
Now, what he is going to do here, he is going to do what we call eddy turn where we are going to eddy and just let the current, spin your boat around and then you come back in to the bottom of the eddy with another eddy turn. You know very basic sort of control, skill you have to have for kayaking. He is to be able to ferry glide and eddy turn or feel out. So, he will just come up, he is going to come up right toward the top of eddy and he gets ready you put the nose of his boat in the current. He braces down stream, that is current spin is boat around, go straight down stream and I will come right back into the eddy.
This is rule it is pretty commonly talk called a screw rule or sweep rule because it sort of throws your body all away back and you get more power up out of your paddle. But we do not like that so much because if you miss and you are going to back into a to position you expose your face to the bottom of the river and if it is a rocky river you might crack your nose, or your head or something.
One of the key sometime is being able to getting into and out of your boats particularly if you are on rough ground and if you are sailing on a rocky shore, and you do not have a nice beach to land on like this, where you can run the nose and boat up, and what you do is you use your paddle for stability. You actually put it across at the back of your cockpit and you lean it against the rocks, and then you got to put one hand out there just sort of put some pressure down like a outrigger, one hand right on the back of your cockpit to hold your boat steady and then use that stability to go ahead and get in out of your boat.
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