{"id":148,"date":"2009-05-12T19:54:04","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T02:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/?p=148"},"modified":"2016-11-22T08:27:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T15:27:42","slug":"libby-demonstrates-proper-kayaking-technique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/kayak-practice\/libby-demonstrates-proper-kayaking-technique\/","title":{"rendered":"Libby Demonstrates Proper Kayaking Technique"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day I forgot I had my demo Jackson 2Fun from Aquasports in the back of my car and I just loaded Libby in there without looking inside.  I was halfway to the store before I looked around and saw this:<\/p>\n

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Which you have to admit is pretty darned cute.<\/p>\n

Anyway, it occurred to me that she was demonstrating the proper moderately aggressive forward kayaking posture recommended by Ken Whiting of Paddling.net<\/a>.  Seeing as I have a copy of his book<\/a> lying around my house, I’m sure this was no coincidence.<\/p>\n

Here she is, attempting a spin.<\/p>\n

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When you spin and the boat doesn’t there’s a problem.  Here Libby wisely checks out the outfitting:<\/p>\n

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And here she purposely demonstrates incorrect technique, with paw clearly extended beyond the kayaking power position<\/a>, putting her at risk of a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n

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Not bad for a dog who sat in her first kayak just a couple of weeks ago.  (Although I must say, she’s had stern squirts mastered for a long time.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day I forgot I had my demo Jackson 2Fun from Aquasports in the back of my car and I just loaded Libby in there without looking inside.  I was halfway to the store before I looked around and saw this:   Which you have to admit is pretty darned cute. Anyway, it occurred to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[60,59,44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148"}],"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=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}