The Phoenix Monkey Trick for Advanced Kayaking

Video Transcript

"The phoenix monkey is one of the hardest freestyle maneuvers in a hole. What the paddler does is reach across their bow to cast water on the power face of your paddle. You're then going to do a pirouette. Once I get back to facing forward again, I'm going to reach up to the sky and initiate a loop, tuck forward, throw my loop, and finish with my paddle behind me. A lot of the motion gets done off this one blade. The pirouette pulls me around, and then at the tail end of the loop I can pull this paddle backwards to throw my feet back in front of me. With the phoenix monkey the goal is to really stay right close to the hole. Different holes are easier or harder to do these in, so find a good hole. Find that sweet spot of the hole, move around, try it in different locations. "