{"id":3979,"date":"2017-07-27T14:08:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T21:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/?p=3979"},"modified":"2021-07-09T13:49:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T20:49:04","slug":"video-3-components-to-the-kayak-boof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/kayak-practice\/video-3-components-to-the-kayak-boof\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: 3 Components to the Kayak Boof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aquabaticscalgary.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aquabatics Calgary<\/a> team has a good instructional video on how to boof a kayak. I think it&#8217;s helpful that it&#8217;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 stuff).<\/p>\n<p>Notice the edge transitions, which are nicely demonstrated. <strong>And remember, the key to great progression is getting comfortable with hard moves on easier whitewater.&nbsp;<\/strong>You can often make your own Class III, IV and even V moves on runs that are a class or two easier just by trying attainments and hard ferries.<\/p>\n<p>Just because everybody else is bopping down the river without catching eddies and making ferries doesn&#8217;t mean you have to. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Aquabatics Calgary team has a good instructional video on how to boof a kayak. I think it&#8217;s helpful that it&#8217;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 stuff). Notice the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3984,"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],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979"}],"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=3979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}