How to Redirect Buoyancy Energy in Freestyle Kayaking

Video Transcript

"Alright. Buoyancy energy is our ability to use the bow of our kayak to gain power into spinning moves that we do in our boats. You can think of the kick board as if it's the bow or stern of a kayak. It has a lot of air in each end of the boat. The first example I'm going to give you is if I just slice the end into the water, it's going to want to slice back up as quickly as possible in the same direction. If I want to do a more momentum sort of move where I want to spin the boat or cartwheel the boat and keep those cartwheels going, what I can do is push it under water and change the direction of it so that it shoots out to the side. We do the same thing in the ends of our kayak. We'll sink an end into the water and by changing the boat angle, it's going to accelerate into a turn and make our cartwheels faster, make our spin smoother. Take a look. If I push it straight in and then turn in, it shoots out more to the side. That's called buoyancy energy. That's our ability to accelerate the boat through the term."