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Video: 5 Most Common Kayaking Mistakes

Wondering what mistakes you might be making when you’re learning whitewater kayaking? Here’s a helpful and funny video from the Unsponsored kayaking blog. (There are a few good pointers after it looks like the video ends, so keep watching until the actual end.) Just for perspective, one of the best kayakers I know says she […]

Boofing Waves and Holes Video

I really like this video from H2o Dreams on how to boof waves and holes, it explains some important concepts really well and the split video that you see at times is super helpful in showing the difference between two different approaches to the same rapid. H20 Dreams also has a good YouTube channel with […]

Smooth Whitewater Kayak Rescue Example

This is a good example of quick thinking in a whitewater kayaking rescue situation (that I somehow found in surfing around for a video for work – no, really, seriously. :) The video shows a kayaker rescuing a pinned paddler on the Cheoah River in North Carolina, taken from the rescuer’s head-cam. I think he […]

Whitewater Kayak Runs Near Seattle

Here are some great whitewater kayaking runs near Seattle ordered by difficulty from Class II to Class V. Most are around an hour from Seattle. Class II to III Headworks – Green River (SE of Seattle) II+ to III The ‘III’ is at the end if you run the optional last three rapids and use […]

Whitewater Kayaking Classes Around Seattle in 2018

Wondering how to get started whitewater kayaking around the Seattle area? Here’s a rundown of some 2018 classes. Northwest Outdoor Center I took their Whitewater Fever Class and I think it’s a great way to start. It’s 5 sessions that take place on evenings and weekends so a person with regular working hours can do […]

The Whitewater Kayaking Video that Has People in a Tizzy

Recently I’ve been seeing this video of a female whitewater kayaker making the rounds on Facebook, and it’s been pretty interesting to see the response. Most people appear to be put off by the title of the video, which is “Whitewater Woman Kills the Kayaker Sterotype” – in a sport where, I’ll agree, I don’t […]

Rolling – A Tribute to Hanging In There

I was so impressed when my friend Andy sent me this video of himself on Wall of Voodoo the first time he did the Cooper River earlier this year. Yes he went offline at the top and got pushed into the left wall (usually the issue is getting pushed right into a slightly undercut wall […]

Video: 3 Components to the Kayak Boof

The Aquabatics Calgary team recently came up with a good instructional video on how to boof a kayak. I think it’s helpful that it’s tailored to moderate whitewater, which makes it more usable for a lot of people (even though the concepts and moves are fundamentally the same as they would be on more difficult […]

Evan Moore Paddles High Water Cataracts of the Kern

Here’s some great footage of whitewater kayaker Evan Moore paddling the Cataracts of the Kern in California at around 4400 cfs (huge). Part of the reason I like this video so much is because of how comfortable he looks in the water, even when he’s submerging into or surfacing out of something massive. If you’re […]

A Good Forward Stroke Is Your Key to Kayaking

The fantastic kayakers winning extreme creeking races in big, technical whitewater all have a powerful forward stroke fueling their moves. It’s the key to virtually everything that gets you where you want to go in kayaking, including the boof stroke. But the forward stroke gets overlooked when people are learning because it seems like a […]

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