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Woods & Waters
Registrace 20. 02. 2009
ADVENTURE OFTEN - with us!
Woods & Waters® leads tours in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, specializing in Lake Huron's Les Cheneaux Islands and the eastern UP. Adventure with us and experience an area like nowhere else in Michigan!
36 islands with miles and miles of Lake Huron shoreline to explore
Both protected and "big water" paddling adventures to suit all skill levels
Nature preserves and public forests offer hiking and biking trails
All-season community just 30 minutes from the Straits
We also rent kayaks, paddleboards, canoes, and bikes!
Woods & Waters® leads tours in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, specializing in Lake Huron's Les Cheneaux Islands and the eastern UP. Adventure with us and experience an area like nowhere else in Michigan!
36 islands with miles and miles of Lake Huron shoreline to explore
Both protected and "big water" paddling adventures to suit all skill levels
Nature preserves and public forests offer hiking and biking trails
All-season community just 30 minutes from the Straits
We also rent kayaks, paddleboards, canoes, and bikes!
Video
Our Season of Paddling
zhlédnutí 1,7KPřed 13 lety
It's time to trade in the swim trunks and hydrosilk for drysuits and tuiliks but we'll keep paddling and be ready for when the big water thaws out and we can get back out into the beautiful Les Cheneaux Islands. In the mean time, here is our summer, our routes, our fun, our and our friends all in HD. Hope you had a good year of paddling because ours was great. Hope you enjoy! Woods and Water Ec...
Forward Paddle Stroke Tutorial
zhlédnutí 297KPřed 14 lety
The forward paddle stroke can be a powerful and efficient way to move a kayak when it is done properly. Here is a short tutorial following ACA guidelines for a long distance touring stroke. This video goes over the entire stroke form from hand position to the full body motion required to boat fit. This style of stroke is used mainly for sea kayak touring but can be modified to be used for racin...
Pool rolling with Roto Cam!
zhlédnutí 1,6KPřed 14 lety
Everyone does a bow-cam. But I've never seen anyone spin the frame. So this is a bit easier to see how the roll works since the perspective doesn't spin with the boat. Hope you enjoy.
Air Sculling Kayak Roll
zhlédnutí 3,8KPřed 14 lety
Here is the air scull. Dubside does it all the time and I personally think it is funny. The idea is that you use your paddle to scull your way up using the air for lift. Filmed December 5th, 2009.
Pinwheel Balance Brace
zhlédnutí 1,8KPřed 14 lety
Just having fun and elaborating on the typical balance brace. Give it a try next time you do a balance brace and confuse all your friends. Water Temp about 43. Air temp about the same.
No Armed Roll (Almost a straight jacket)
zhlédnutí 1,5KPřed 14 lety
The straight jacket roll is the highest scored roll in competition for good reason. It's really stinkin' hard. A good way to learn it is to roll with your hands to your chest. This way you have the body motion of the straight jacket roll but a bit more surface area on your body to help lever you up and out of the water.
Standard Rolls for Speed (Nerfallarlugu Assakaaneq)
zhlédnutí 385Před 14 lety
An early fall rolling session. Water is still warm and the air isn't. The goal is to do 5 standard layback rolls in 10 seconds.
Greenland Rolls and Stupid Paddle Tricks by Tim
zhlédnutí 4,6KPřed 14 lety
In response to Helen's Video here is Tim doing some of his favorite rolls with his Valley Aquanaut HV and Tuktu Paddle with a few bits of Maligiaq Padilla's "Stupid Paddle Tricks" here and there for fun. Tim has never competed in an official rolling competition and aspires to one day travel to Greenland and compete in the Greenland National Kayak Championships in every event. It's people like H...
Stupid Paddle Trick
zhlédnutí 1,6KPřed 14 lety
Here is a quick description of how to do one of what Maligiaq Padilla calls "Stupid Paddle Tricks". This was taught to me by Helen Wilson at Qajaq TC in August of 2009. It's a great stretch and a lot of fun to practice.
Butterfly Roll
zhlédnutí 984Před 14 lety
A quick butterfly roll for fun. This is a great roll to learn. It can really help get all the rest of your rolls smooth and slow.
Jessie's First Norsaq Roll
zhlédnutí 1,7KPřed 14 lety
After a lot of practice, some stretching, and a lot of water in the sinus passages, Jessie nails her first ever Norsaq roll.
Greenland Rope Gymnastics (Allunaariaqattarneq)
zhlédnutí 8KPřed 15 lety
Allunaariaqattarneq (games played with a harpoon line) is a set of exercises done on a pair of hanging ropes to increase Strength, Flexibility, and Coordination for Kayaking. These exercises were developed over a thousand years ago by the greenland kayak hunters as a way to maintain their fitness through frozen winters, train young hunters, and entertain them through the long frozen winters. No...
Paddle for a Purpose
zhlédnutí 509Před 15 lety
Sean and Dana are paddling around Lake Michigan to raise funds and awareness for the Red Cross. It was our pleasure at Woods and Water Ecotours to help them out. We had a lot of fun helping them in the pool and we wish them the best of luck. Safe paddling. Please contact the American Red Cross. You can do more to help than just giving blood.
Eskimo Rolling 1: Woods and Water Ecotours
zhlédnutí 465Před 15 lety
In preparation for a charity circumnavigation of Lake Michigan for the Red Cross, I am helping the guys that are doing the expedition with their kayaking skills. At the end of the session I just had to get some rolls in. I do sweeps, a few C to Cs, a simple trick roll, and finish it off with a butterfly roll. Come to woods and water some time and we can teach you how to do this too.
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Thanks
A great reply to Helen's video. I just bought a boat that will roll. Next I'll set about learning the moves. This boat is just to hold me over until I make a SOF, and to let me get back to paddling just a little bit.
Here in 2023 > Thanks for a clear and simple demonstration 👍🏻
Excellent video. Very clear and helpful for beginners. Great tips.
just how
Очень жаль тех сотен тьісяч людей ,которьіе просмотрели єто видео и приняли к руководству неправильную ,неоптимальную технику ! Запомните! Невозможно биомеханически правильно грести веслом без разворота лопастей!
I find the basics are explained really well here. However, I wonder what the purpose of using thigh braces is. It just forces one to keep one's legs at an unnatural angle, taking away much of the force of the leg work. Competition (flat water) paddlers keep their knees close to one another and by doing so get the maximum "kick" from their legs. (For comparison: you don't bicycle with your knees bent outwards either.) I see no reason why this could not be applied in touring kayaks as well.
You are spot on with keeping the knees together. Racing kayaks like surfskis or K1s have the knee position just like you described. And many sea kayaks have thigh braces that allow for a knees together sitting position too. But you can still get a lot of power from the pumping your legs in wider leg position in a sea kayak even if it isn't as powerful or efficient as a ski or K1. Thigh braces in a sea kayak are mainly there for edge control and stability when not in perfectly flat water, which is what sea kayaks are really designed to be in. (Note: I made this video but I am responding to this from my new channel).
@@KayakToTheSea Thanks for the swift reply! I have only learned the racing technique, since the guy who taught me was a racing paddler. That's why I've always wondered about those thigh braces (and actually ripped them out of my kayaks if they had them).
@@joro5748 I hear ya! It goes the other way as well. I started sea-kayaking so whenever I get into my surfski I always wish I could add braces when I am in bumpy water. Taking it the other way, if you check out whitewater kayaks the outfitting and thigh braces can be quite extensive because edge control and staying rooted in the kayak is so important. Safe paddling!
@@KayakToTheSea That explains a lot! Thanks, the same to you!
Good job dude. Thanks a lot for the video.
AWESOME VIDEO!!!!
Thank you! I watched many videos on paddling and this one is the best and informative enough to make a huge difference.
Is that the Gemini
Thank you. Best tutorial I have seen on CZcams. Really helpful.
Glad it was helpful! We are looking forward to adding new content this summer!
Elbows is a good tip. Really easy to let them bend…something to watch out for next time!
This is the best tutorial for how to paddle that Ive found because you show how to do it from different angles including how to hold the paddle correctly! Thank you! This is really helpful! 👏👏👏🇬🇧
Great explanation. Thanks!
Really like how you demonstrated. Some good tips that I can now understand and put to use !!
This is the best of the five videos I’ve watched. Thx!
I’m new to kayaking and I’ve watched a bunch of tutorials. Yours was by far the most helpful and now that I understand the paddlers box i’m much clearer on how to get the torso rotation. Thanks so much!
I like my Werner crooked paddle. Crooked, because it's good for long distance paddling.
I'm inspired to buy a paddle. who needs a boat anyway...
If you’re a new paddlers you’ll definitely know you’re doing it right the next day you will anyways lol
Awesome info mate. Thank you
Old but gold!
Many good pointers. Still keeping your upper arms fairly glose to your body and your elbows low is more powerefficient and prevents shoulderdamage and fatigue. The movement of the hands is the same.
Brilliant ! I have just learnt more in the last 8 minutes than i have found anywhere else on youtube after months of searching ! I can now see where i am going wrong.. thank you for the great info my man, i will try this tomorrow !
Nice music and transitions. Looks like a nice wintery day too.
Clear explanation of how to use your whole body correctly to paddle efficiently and not get tired. Excellent thank you.
Awesome instruction technique. I learned a lot. Quite frankly I cannot understand why you received those thumbs down. You were great!!!
opening the top hand is a bad idea...at the moment of the catch and the following "power phase"...the physics intended are to actually create lift....part of the biomechanics is that force from the top hand drives the catch, then keeps pressure from the top hand through the power phase to create lift....opening the top hand leaves you instead to only kinda pull with the bottom hand...the core rotation does allow you to pull the blade with the bottom hand, but rotation with a connection with the top hand applies PRESSURE to that top hand and it goes down through the shaft...this adds more force and lift, and also helps to manage the effective pivot point of the blade in the water....you also are exiting from the power phase very late, creating a downward pull vs. the desired lift....the paddlers box is more of a drill than an actual good way to paddle...see the ivan lawler video on techqniue for better details.
You make some excellent points and I have heard a lot of them from other coaches since there are so many variations on forward stroke technique. I agree totally with the exiting too late. This video was early on in my coaching skills and my teaching method has changed. As for the top hand, you can still apply pressure to the shaft with an open hand and I often see it where students have a death grip and it screws up their technique. The relaxed grip might tighten up for power and sprinting but it also reduces fatigue for distance touring. Nowadays I call it an 'OK' grip where you make the 👌 on the top hand. You keep some more of the contact and control, keep a more neutral wrist, and can put more power into the blade but also have the relaxed forearms and wrists. I'll try to find the videos yare talking about, I love seeing different ways of teaching and visualizing techniques.
yeah...im not a pro or anything, although my coach is (world champ in open ocean racing in 2018)...there seems to be arguably a benefit to thinking about what may constitute "a most efficient forward stroke"...the variation from that may be due to human error, misinformation, or just natural small variations from paddler to paddler....I think there is huge variation among the sea kayaking world, and some but far less variation among the performance paddling world....the performance paddling world seems more insular, although now ya got some resources on youtube now from like Ivan lawler (IMO that may be the most authoratitive technique review out there on the webs), or Oscar chalupsky....but when you look at stroke variations among "good racers"...there are some, but in many ways far less variation with "core elements". In my opinion, the top hand being open is a good drill to unlearn a death grip but a bad idea for efficiency,,,,,even for a touring pace (whatever that may mean from person to person), you need at least a light grip to transmit the force from the top hand....the force and efficiency that the top hand plays I feel is often misunderstood....without it, the force of lift created by a stroke is minimized greatly and proper form is more illusive to maintain...
@@Bhamlunker I totally agree with the variety and differences between communities. And in sea-kayaking too we tend to come across a wider variety of paddle styles, shapes, and paddler age, fitness, and kayaks. It makes coaching and adjusting techniques for different people a fun and interesting challenge. I'll keep the grip thing in mind and be mindful of it when paddling and coaching to see what I am feeling. I watched part of one of the videos you mentioned and will need to go back and study it more. It looks good.
WoodsWaterEcotours cool man! Fun talking - take care!!
@@Bhamlunker Same. Safe paddling.
I m sure i seen you on movies walking on water, but this video was very good
Watching this in 2019 and this is awesome! Thank you so much, I have been looking for something like this!
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you are lovely , god bless you
So what you're telling me is I've been doing it all wrong. Thank you. I will now work on doing it right!
Most helpful clip on the forward stroke I've found so far: lots of useful information and tips. Really good - thank you!
Reach don`t push. Reach, reach and let your body follow through.
What do you think about self-feathering paddles? as at: czcams.com/video/pV6JpuVJbWo/video.html
Just bought a Kayak, great video should help a lot , good presentation many thanks
An imaginary kayak is just as effective as an invisible one. Great demonstration. Thank you Tim.
There is another Video with the same name "Greenland Rolls and Stupid Paddle Tricks by Helen" and it has over 130k views and this is very good and smooth. Both are very good.
Helen is a friend and a huge inspiration.
Great video, very informative. Cheers!
Cool bro. You are the man.
Awesome dude.
Finally, an easy-to-follow instructional video on how to do the forward paddle properly! Great video. Thanks!
That's the best kayak paddling tutorial ever! Thanks so much for clearly explaining it.👍
Best tutorial I’ve found! Thank you! No need to watch another
Really great, I have tried to tell friends about this technique but this video explains it perfectly, the only problem I found with it was holding your head still and level when using a helmet mounted GoPro :)
Главная проблема в том, что єтот инструктор неправильно учит! Невозможно веслом без разворота лопастей правильно оптимально грести!
Thank you so very much!
Thanks a lot, this was helpful. I know now my form has been bad because I've been doing it all with my arms and collapsing my elbows. Yours is the most thorough instruction I've found so far.