Basic Canoeing All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started

by Rounds, Jon; Dickert, Wayne; Brown, Skip; Litwak, Taina

• ISBN13: 9780811726443
• ISBN10: 0811726444
• Format: Spiral Bound
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: NATIONAL BOOK NETWORK

Summary

This illustrated guide on the essential skills of canoeing should be required reading for anyone getting into the sport. A section on the mechanics of good paddling is followed by a catalogue of the most important strokes, each illustrated in sequential photographs, with concise text on the key points. Essential river manoeuvres -- eddy turns, peel-outs, and ferries -- are demonstrated by the Olympic paddling team of Wayne Dickert and Horace Holden Jr.

Author Biography

Wayne Dickert was a canoeist in the C2 category in the 1996 Olympics and a national whitewater canoe champion. He is currently the manager of instruction for the Nantahala Outdoor Center in Bryson City, North Carolina, and serves on the American Canoe Association's Safety, Education, and Instruction Committee Photographer Skip Brown shoots outdoor sports and recreation for books and magazines. He is a Class V paddler, advanced-rated hang glider pilot, and accomplished windsurfer, snowboarder, and mountain biker. He lives on the Potomac River in Maryland with his wife and son Taina Litwak has been working as an illustrator for 23 years. Her work has appeared in over 150 publications, including popular periodicals, journals, and textbooks

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	iv
Introduction	v
Fundamentals	1	(10)
Lifting and Carrying the Canoe
Launching and Landing
Trim and Pivot Point
Paddling Body Mechanics
Vision
Forward and Corrective Strokes	11	(12)
Forward Stroke
Corrective Strokes
Sit `n' Switch
Roles of Bow and Stern Paddler
More Strokes	23	(20)
Pry Strokes
Draw Strokes
Sweep Strokes
Cross Strokes
Back Strokes
Low Braces
Tandem Combinations
On the Water	43	(20)
Reading the River
River Moves
International Scale of River Difficulty
Portaging and Lining
Wind and Waves in Open Water
Boats, Paddles, and Gear	63	(8)
Canoes
Paddles
PFDs
River Gear
Clothing
Safety and Rescue	71	(10)
Preventing Accidents
Universal River Signals
River Rescue
Flatwater Rescue
Paddling Injuries and First Aid
Cartopping	81	(6)
Resources	87	(2)
Index	89