How to Avoid Peering in Beginning Kayaking Tricks

Video Transcript

"Pearling happens when a kayaker comes down the face of a wave and hits a current straight on causing the water to build up on the bow of the boat, pushing the paddler vertical. What we want to do to avoid pearling is keep our boat on edge and keep carving to the side of the wave and avoid coming too far down the wave, in order to not get a big deflection off the wave as well. Pearling can happen at any point that your bow is right in line with the current and it’s going to happen the easiest when you get at the trough of the wave in the bottom. So if you’re down in the trough you want to be on edge and sideways to the current so that you get pulled back up the wave to avoid pearling."