Waterfalls Part 3 - How to Tuck
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- čas přidán 5. 07. 2022
- Kayaking waterfalls is one of the most feared, respected, and oddly underestimated feats you can do in whitewater kayaking. It blows my mind how many people step up to their first waterfalls with little more than a roll and some courage. The purpose of this video series is to get you started on the right track. (Please keep reading below)
In addition to the tips described in this video, I strongly recommend practicing to find what works best for you on smaller waterfalls before trying to step it up to larger ones. Only step up in small increments and don't assume this is all inclusive information for making waterfall kayaking safe. The reality is that even though we minimize risk by practicing skills and setting appropriate safety, waterfall running is never truly safe. There are many more skills and technical details that I did not include in this video. Gradually practice on waterfalls before stepping up to bigger ones, and always be conservative when assessing your own skills. Never run waterfalls without proper equipment, safety, access, or practice and please huck responsibly!
This is an introduction to waterfall freefall techniques.
Finally, detailed instructions for waterfalls. I love your pace and content. Your new videos are great. I appreciated the ones about the new Flow in relationship to the Zen 3.0. Promo videos didn't really place the Flow where it belongs, but you did.
Wow! Lots of interesting info in this series that I'd never heard of or considered before. Thanks for making and sharing these videos!
I agree with @Interesting Educator: I'd LOVE to see a more in-depth discussion of how to run smaller falls and the progression of how to then start approaching larger waterfalls.
Everyone starts small! My first "waterfall" was a foot tall and it was SCARY! Of course, after a year of WW kayaking, I look back at that fear and laugh. :) But my goal of running the 8ish foot waterfall behind the Sheraton in Cuyahoga Falls, OH still seems daunting.
Thanks Debbie! Most of us don't consider anything under 10 ft a "waterfall" per say... typically we refer to those as ledges and the technique you'd want for those is a "boof". Check out the "How to Boof" video for those baby steps you're looking for. The waterfall realm involves actual freefall, so must be taller than your kayak is long. Cuyahoga is one you'd want to boof for sure. Cheers!
I have had 3 bulging discs and stinosis in my low back. There have been many drops I've wanted to run. But, due to cautious thinking. I've limited myself to 20 foot verts. Tho, I have dropped some 75 foot cascading rapids. The vertical aspect was broken up into multiple shorter drops.
Thanks for the instructional. So much to learn. Lots to pay forward to the next generation of paddlers.
something worth thinking about… those 15-20’ers and bouncy slides and carrying your boat puts way more pressure on your back and discs than plugging most big drops. The big ones get you less, unless you mess up. I’m 2” shorter than I used to be… mostly from 20’ers, slides, and long portages with a full boat… love that you’re watching and stoked you enjoyed!
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Yeah for sure. Most of the falls I've dropped were really easy, straight forward with min consequences. LOL. Hardest parts were getting through all the class 5"s to enjoy the falls. I take it a bit easier these days. Still lots to paddle without having to Hair Boat.
Hey man could you do a video on how to run slides? I haven’t been able to find guidance for that anywhere and they are decently common in many areas.
I’ll make an updated one for sure, but this old one I did is a good start:
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Thanks so much! I’m especially curious about how to read a slide without beta, how to know if it’s in (enough water), and how to spot hazards in that environment.
Might want to re-do this video because you have a couple of sections that got repeated. Specifically, the bit about deciding whether to toss the paddle or not and how "you might be uncomfortable or not know what to do" if you always toss and then come up on a situation where you can't toss. I'd love t hear more about the plunge into the pocket, itself. I'm going to assume that large waterfalls have deeper pockets that can accept a vertical plunge, I would also assume that smaller falls would have smaller pockets, so I'm guessing that you wouldn't want to tuck for a vertical plunge. How do we gauge which to do? Is there a tried an true method to know when a pocket is safe to plunge into vertically or is this more experience than anything else?
Also, you keep talking about these 20 footers and larger, but I'm still thinking about smaller things like 5-10 feet waterfalls. ROFL Perhaps a kiddie video is in order?
🤣 re-do... Knowing if it's safe/deep enough is in the first video of the waterfall series, this is the 3rd, and you should definitely check it out if you haven't. Also, even if you're plugging something small, you'd still want to tuck always. There's never a reason to plug vertically and not tuck, belly flops are out. If you're only interested in 5-10'ers though, you'd be good to watch the How to Boof video because you'll never really plug a drop in the height range that you're looking at and boofing is a much better/safer way to enjoy ledges like those. Cheers & thanks for watching!
@@CleanLineKayaking I did watch the others- left comments thanking you for the tips. I know about the "good boil", but is that all there is to knowing whether it is a safe drop? I will head over to the "How to boof" video next.
@@Melourn pretty much, but with smaller features the more standard river running/scouting skills come into play, especially if it's high volume. Higher volume ledges can contain some pretty sticky holes that you may want to avoid. Paying attention to the boil should be solid enough to help you identify rocks and depth though. Pay attention to little streams and micro features if you really want to step up your river reading skills. Additionally, I'm working on a video right now for reading rivers and boat scouting. I hope this helps & thanks again for watching!
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