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Question from a viewer of the kayak roll video...  Do you have any suggestions for turning rapids where there is a nasty rock wall / ledge? -Alex

Hi Alex,

Well, having control to get wherever! you want to go is one of the great challenges of whitewater sport.  For me it is the amazing reward.  So perhaps striving for that attitude will help a bit, perhaps on a touch easier water.  Handling turns, walls, and eddylines is an example of that. 

Attached is a diagram that depicts how various whitewater features are formed as a rock is gradually covered by rising water.  This is fundamental to understanding how to read water and how to read the river when kayaking, canoeing, or rafting.

These images are a side view from water level.

The DVD river runners edge has a water reading segment that nicely demonstrates how this works.  For teaching, the sketch works well because it takes away ambiguity.

Comments welcome to performancevideo.com/contact, thanks,  Kent Ford

Finally we have a compression algorithm we are content with for online viewing of The River Runners Edge.  The main benefit is that you can purchase the DVD and get instant access for online viewing...  or of course buy the online viewing only.

A viewers question:

I have watched the instant access version of The Kayak Roll about 10 times ;-)   The video stresses that the power blade should slice through the water with no resistance, and watching the video I see the results work.  My question is, with it slicing (instead of using a climbing angle and pushing down on the blade) what gives you the leverage to brace up while doing a hip snap?

Greetings!

I would like to offer a benefit to all the members of your paddling school or club... a free Kayak Roll movie online showing for roll classes.

All it requires is that you send email and web publicity to your school or club.

A recent letter we received: