{"id":4168,"date":"2019-04-26T03:32:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T10:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/?p=4168"},"modified":"2021-07-09T10:31:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T17:31:41","slug":"video-5-most-common-kayaking-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/kayak-practice\/video-5-most-common-kayaking-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: 5 Most Common Kayaking Mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wondering what mistakes you might be making when you’re learning whitewater kayaking? Here’s a helpful and funny video from the Unsponsored<\/a> kayaking blog. (There are a few good pointers after it looks like the video ends, so keep watching until the actual end.)<\/p>\n

Just for perspective, one of the best kayakers I know (Darcy Gaechter, co-owner of Small World Adventures<\/a> in Ecuador and author of the book Amazon Woman<\/a>) says she likes to always have a little side to side lean in her boat, but she has great balance and is always really centered regardless of whether she has a lean or not.<\/p>\n

Basically, boat lean can be used as a tool in various river situations, the point in this video is that you should have control over it<\/strong> and be able to keep your boat level when that’s to your advantage.<\/p>\n

Speaking of Darcy Gaechter, she was the only woman in a 3-person crew that was the first ever to paddle the Amazon River from source to sea a few years ago, including through gnarly Class V, active dam construction sites and areas controlled by drug traffickers. Amazon Woman is Darcy’s book about the trip and I highly recommend it<\/strong> – the Audible version, which is what I picked, is really well narrated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 (Darcy Gaechter, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4176,"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],"tags":[63,399],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4168"}],"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=4168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}