Bow Dry Paddling: How To Stay On Top
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- All these new high rocker kayak designs make staying on top of the flow so much easier, but the technique behind it is a game changer. Keeping your bow up means maintaining speed, control, and the freedom to quickly change direction. It also means drops and ledges can act like ramps and aid in acceleration and holes don't have to slow you down.
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As one coach put it to me once, look for the high points. I love the sweep boof technique. One thing though, too much edge combined with not getting the boat straightened up to ride over a feature can result in a beatdown on some strong seam lines and holes, particularly as a light paddler. I won't tell you how I know that... 😂 Great video as always!
video coming up to show just how much to use… 🤙🏻
Hey man! You're the perfect teacher. I love your videos. You asked for ideas. 🙏 I see the lock-in as the necessary beginning of "wearing your boat" (as opposed to sitting in it). The other part is what one does when locked in.
Kayakers need to acquire conditioned responses for stabilizing which allow them to deal with turbulent water flow around their boats without necessarily having to explicitly think much about it. I think that kayakers need to relegate a part of their brains to the task of stabilization.
Core muscles (for boat edge, balance, and for transmitting the power of strokes), and a complete repertoire of strokes (including draw strokes and hybrids with other strokes and with brace) can be somewhat relegated to the background of the brain. With that skill he can have very good automatic responses in turbulence and he can also better think higher level thoughts, such as where he's trying to go, etc.
A person can practice relegating stabilization skills to the background by intentionally dwelling a little in squirrally water (foregoing hard forward stroking through it), as he dares. He can also find times to challenge himself in flatwater (including pool sessions) by just using the back of his brain to throw imagined situations at himself, intentionally losing balance with various body positions, etc, and responding with strokes & braces. Maybe you have other/more ideas.
you could also just buy a high n' dry rolling aid. makes you skip out 10 times better 👍
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These videos are great, I'd love if you could do something on down river tricks, how to nail kick flips, splats, rock spins, blunts ect.
Whoa, just what I’ve been figuring out lately. Watching the pros had me notice a lot of them almost sweep boofing over holes and pourovers. This is a great tutorial that helps me conceptualize the quadrant idea. Thanks!
stoked it helps!!! 🤙🏻
"while obviously not a good forward stroke" feels like im being directly called out, and we've not even paddled together 😂
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Great video! I was just learning this at Paddle School this year. Jet ferrying across the current at Three Chutes on the Hiwassee I noticed how dry my bow was as it climbed up and over the whitewater. Thanks for posting about this more in depth!
Glad it helps! thanks for watching! 🤙🏻
Very well explained and demonstrated.
Thanks for watching! 🤙🏻
Glad you made this video. It's something I've been doing more the past year, and automatic this season. Soo good!
makes such a huge difference
Great tutorial
Great tutorial, thank you Boyd!
stoked you like it! 🤙🏻 weird more people don’t directly teach it, but it’s what you ultimately learn if you river run a lot in a playboat or full slice.
very helpful !!
Thanks for watching! 🤙🏻
I would never try floating over a hole in a box boat, but I do have an Indra which h as a slicey tail.
Love the content as usual but I did have a question about it:
I’ve had an instance on a manky SE creek, South Sauty, where I was trying to dry bow everything. I ended up shooting right over a hole but landed directly into an FU rock hidden under the water with all of that momentum and flipped super fast. I was like inches away from destroying my face on a rock. Any advice on when to use the dry bow paddling and then when to maybe be a little more conservative in maintaining a strong stance without exaggerated movements to make braces more effective? Or, which this could be likely too, did I just have bad from in the dry bow paddling and end up leaning too far back or something?
What I’m currently thinking is to use dry bow paddling for a planned purpose like on the side seam of a tongue to dodge a beefy hole in bigger water, and maybe paddle a little more conservative in something super manky.
Thanks as always and keep it up!
First, imagine how bad it would have been had your bow been deep in the pile instead. Bow dry paddling is actually the most conservative and safe way to paddle, even in the southeast. I'd say especially on manky runs. It's how I paddle on Jones Creek in AL for example. I'm very familiar with S Sauty too- fun run, but definitely has some F-u rocks hidden.
Second, river reading and looking ahead will help you see the secondary rock coming, but learning to lean boof will help you use it when one catches you by surprise.
That said, without seeing any video, it sounds like you could have been over-leaning when you switched quadrants. the finish is often more subtle and you want to make sure you're more forward and over your boat as you leave the pile... even "locked in" with the skip.
Hope this helps! Love some Bama creekin' 🤙
There are zero "smooth rocks" in Idaho. It's all boat destroying volcanic rock.
@@powskier makes learning harder, but water boofs are super fun. You’ll have to depend on using lean boof technique on folds, pillows, boils, reactionaries, and the pressure waves you can build with speed, angle, and lean next to rocks instead of hitting them directly. It’s harder to learn but better anyway. 🤙🏻