Video: Staying in Control when White Water Canoeing

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Use a variety of white water canoeing maneuvers such as eddy turns, peel outs and ferrying to stay in control of your canoe when running a rapid. Learn how in this free online white water canoeing lesson on video.

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Once you've mastered the basic of eddy turns, peel outs, and ferry's, surfing all the other basic river maneuver's you can string all of them together and do a combination that makes a running rapid really a joy. The way the stream moves together is to first of all helps to know the rapid pretty well but even if you don't sometimes if it's an easier rapid you can scouted on the fly. As your coming down the rapid look for opportunities to ferry it out a wave to use a hole to change direction in, to use an eddy to stop it or to look down stream or to completely change direction to go back the other way. So using eddies combine with ferry's, combine with peel outs, combine with all the different features of a rapid you can stream moves together to get a real nice smooth pattern down the rapid and it's a really fun way to run a river, its a great way to be in control and to look while your doing it.

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Staying in Control when White Water Canoeing

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