The Ideal Forward Stroke - Sea Kayak Technique
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- čas přidán 20. 10. 2010
- Ken Whiting explains and demonstrates how to perform a quality forward stroke, and get the most from your paddle and body.
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This is the best paddling technique video on CZcams. Thanks for putting the time into making it!
It's a really professionally made video ever seen by me.You can learn from it a lot.Thanks.
Great info,been kayaking for about a month & it's a ton of fun....love my kayak !!
Really helpful, thanks! I have a bad habit of "arm paddling"
Helpful, to the point.
the water looks amaaaaazing
good teacher, good camera man
I've noticed that these rules seem to disappear when you're on a sit-on-top and get into boating traffic and currents in the intracoastal waterway. It's kind of sadistic to learn to paddle there but afterwards it makes this easygoing sit-inside paddling look relaxing. At least when you make a mistake you aren't surrounded by miles of oyster beds.
I'm new to kayaks and have a 2 person inflatable. It really pushes you to paddle correctly as it really, really reacts to bad paddling. It seems to have a lot of side to side as it's only 10 feet long, and a missed stroke will have you pointed the wrong direction quickly which completely messes up the rhythm. I got mine for long distance paddling bit I practice spirited paddling too to test how well my muscle memory is working. So far I can paddle quickly but I'll have several errors in a short amount of time. It's gets me going but with a lot of wasted energy. It also sits up higher in the water than a hardshell so not getting the paddle all the way in the water is glaringly obvious too. It's light going to pick up an ice chest you think is loaded down only to find it's empty as you try to forcefully lift it. I do love how well it cruises with little effort to keep it going, not such a fan of it wanting to turn toward the direction of the wind as soon as I stop paddling though. I can't imagine how bad it would be without the fin (skeg?) On the bottom.
I've learned to push on the other side of the paddle (air side) instead of pulling (water side).
Is this wrong?
Arnold vd M , that is completely right. The video is wrong
Pushing the upper arm forward during the stroke brings the blade in the water sooner past the hip and pulls the kayak towards the water making the stroke less efficient.
@@ollilehtonen7874 You are a lot stronger if you push and use your torso instead of pulling as shown at 1:17
@@arnoldmeulen My comment was about pushing with the upper arm, i.e. extending it during the power phase of the stroke, this is based on what paddlers like Oscar Chalupsky and Ivan Lawler say about paddling technique.
Good video with good basic fundamentals but seems to be a somewhat old school approach to the forward stroke. The author talks about rotation but seems to be rotating his shoulders only and missing a core group of muscles in the abdomen. Keeping a more constant paddlers box would engage the lower torso area and prevent pulling your arm behind your body. Not knocking anything at all but I've found that a more exaggerated paddlers box and rotation to avoid beginners from potential bad habits.
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Next video - tying your shoes
I had total butt failure after following this technique.
After a successful buttectomy and 32 years of physio my bum bum is fine now.
Just an English comment coming through
longer harder
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I don't see what's funny about that, being a Canadian doesn't make one less likely to have or use a kayak....
It is hard to believe that the same misinformation that I was exposed to as a beginner nearly 30 yrs ago is still being taught.
A canadian is an open canoe - a kayak isn't a canadian
No!!! This is not efficient nor fast. Besides the Brent Rietz suggested below, there's also Gordon Brown.