{"id":1210,"date":"2011-02-20T08:27:31","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T15:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2016-11-30T19:46:23","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T02:46:23","slug":"whitewater-kayaking-slalom-technique-how-to-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/kayak-practice\/whitewater-kayaking-slalom-technique-how-to-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitewater Kayaking Slalom Technique How-To Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As usual, after watching videos of <a title=\"Link to the Icicle Creek video post.\" href=\"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/paddle-trips\/video-whitewater-kayakers-on-icicle-creek-middle-section\/\">my friends creeking Class V<\/a>, I went searching for some instructional videos on kayaking slalom technique because I know I&#8217;m weak in the eddy-catching \/ boat control department.\u00a0 After plugging around for a while I finally found this awesome site called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slalomtechnique.co.uk\/k1technique.php\" target=\"_blank\">Canoe Slalom Technique<\/a> that has a big section of short video tutorials on K1 (one-person kayak) slalom techniques &#8211;\u00a0 just what I was looking for!\u00a0 You can click the photo below to go to the page with all the videos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slalomtechnique.co.uk\/k1technique.php\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1213\" title=\"Link to the whitewater kayaking slalom video technique page.\" src=\"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/slalom-technique-500x262.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Each move is shown in regular speed, then broken down into slow motion and labeled &#8211; super useful.\u00a0 And while obviously some moves are not ones you&#8217;d do in a creekboat (like the reverse\/bow draw pivots, in which your stern is underwater the whole time), pretty much any of these would go a long way towards making any kayaker better on all types of whitewater.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at these moves I think you can see that quite a few of the components are also in that <a title=\"Link to the video on Amazon.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Kayaking-Eric-Jackson-Concepts-Bombproofing\/dp\/B000HCK286\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Jackson &#8216;Strokes and Concepts&#8217; video<\/a> that I&#8217;ve recommended before.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve broken that one out again recently and am planning to head out to the lake to practice those drills too, but it&#8217;s awesome to find a bunch of videos that focus completely on slalom.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to see some amazing boat control in action, check out this video of Campbell Walsh.\u00a0 (It&#8217;s a good example of what Eric Jackson talks about in his video &#8211; that every turn should be controlled on the inside of the turn.)\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure that&#8217;s not a new concept, but it&#8217;s amazing how long we can paddle without <em>really<\/em> learning some of this stuff &#8211; speaking for myself, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>[HTML1]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;m weak in the eddy-catching \/ boat control department.\u00a0 After plugging around for a while I finally found this awesome site called Canoe Slalom Technique that has a big section [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,45],"tags":[190,145,183,191,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}