{"id":1511,"date":"2011-10-03T21:32:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T04:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/?p=1511"},"modified":"2021-07-11T23:52:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T06:52:11","slug":"boofing-whitewater-kayaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/kayak-practice\/boofing-whitewater-kayaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Videos: How to Boof in Whitewater Kayaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Here are three great videos by Shane Benedict from WhitewaterInstruction.com about different types of whitewater kayaking boofs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re new to whitewater kayaking, boofing is a way to get your kayak over some obstacle, usually a ledge of some sort, in a way that keeps the bow up so that you clear what is usually a reversal at the bottom and land in control, centered over your boat and without sinking the bow. &nbsp;You&#8217;ll notice he breaks it down into three parts: the approach, the paddle stroke, and body position.<\/p>\n<h4>The Straight Boof:<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whitewaterinstruction.com\/?p=58\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\">LINK TO THE PAGE WITH DETAILS ON THE STRAIGHT BOOF.<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>The Into the Eddy Boof:<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whitewaterinstruction.com\/?p=65\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" style=\"outline: none;\">LINK TO THE PAGE WITH TIPS ON THE INTO THE EDDY BOOF.<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Straight and Fader Boofs:<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whitewaterinstruction.com\/?p=71\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\">LINK TO THE PAGE WITH DETAILS ON THE STRAIGHT AND FADER BOOFS.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am by no means an expert on boofing, by the way &#8211; as I&#8217;ve said before, most of my boofs require scuba gear. :) But I think these videos have given me a much better idea of what to work on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2014 Update:&nbsp; Here&#8217;s a link to a newer post with a fantastic&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/videos\/video-the-mother-of-all-kayak-boofing-tutorials\/\" title=\"Video: The Mother of All Kayak Boofing Tutorials\">kayak boofing and flaring video tutorial<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are three great videos by Shane Benedict from WhitewaterInstruction.com about different types of whitewater kayaking boofs. If you&#8217;re new to whitewater kayaking, boofing is a way to get your kayak over some obstacle, usually a ledge of some sort, in a way that keeps the bow up so that you clear what is usually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3582,"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":[136,145,163],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511"}],"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=1511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}