When a student who has been paddling for a while expresses that they want better boat control, they are specifically referring to their ability to make the boat move the way they want relative to the current. When they say they want the ability to read water better, they mean they want to know how to identify and utilize how the motion of the boat relative to the current’s momentum will make them move through the river and its features.
In this video, we take a different approach to the typical progression and discuss why the boat moves the way it does through the physics of the hull and our stroke-work.
Chris Wing has been an instructor for as long as he has been a kayaker. He started H2o Dreams out of a desire to spur growth and reverence for paddle sports education all while providing a different spin to the presentation of familiar topics. Visit www.whitewaterdreams.com for more info or follow H2o Dreams on Facebook and Twitter.
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