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How to improve kayaking safety
- Category: How to do
I ended up asking myself why accidents happened and what we could do to stop them. After consulting with a lot of experienced paddlers and with the help of risk analysis principles, I put together few concepts, which are not going to make a kayaker immortal, but at least help to better understand what we are risking and experience the river in more conscious way.
Is slalom useful for creek-boating?
- Category: How to do
Lots of creek kayakers want to buy a slalom boat to start training to get a better paddler. Is that a good idea or not?
Slalom kayakers have a better technique rather than any other paddlers but, is this enough to prove the slalom training is necessary to improve?
Kayak Session film of the year 2013
- Category: Video
Kayak session Short film of the year WINNER. Nice short video presented by the franch DK team about Maroc experience.
How to turn the boat
- Category: Technique
The kayak rotation comes from the power of the arms. Wrong, a good kayaker is able to turn it mainly using the body rotation to direct the boat. Only through the comprehension of this movement is possible to make a big step forward in the kayak technique.
The power stroke
- Category: Technique
The Power stroke is a propulsive action to push the boat forward using the body movement. It can be used to perform many operations in white and flat water with freestyle and creek boats. This stroke is very effective while getting into an out of the eddies and to boof (jump an obstacle). In flat water allows simple circular path through a series of strokes inside of the curve. This stroke is important to learn how to move your torso and increase its mobility.
