5 Reasons Why Packrafters Need to Learn Eddy Turns

I share my thoughts about using more Eddy turns and learn more technical paddling when packrafting. In my opinion, I wasted my first 2 years of packrafting for not to improve my technical skills enough. I will definitely start to train more!

[@MarkOates]

Great vid Caj! Really clear instructions and great to see it explained this way with a model. Loved the hand carved packraft and paddle and the quote about your ‘Granny’! You need to make and sell these models as they are a great tool for teaching others. I am now going to work on my beard growing - I think I have wasted my last 20 years of shaving when I could have used that time better 😝

[@caide]

Haha!

[@rogerpalin2800]

Hi Caj, defo you’ve improved your knowledge from some of your earlier videos 👍 As l mentioned last time, packrafts are so easy to paddle by just bobbing through things. But then the downside is that the paddler misses out on the learning phase of river paddling. Your advice and knowledge is 80% great but the extra 20% will really make the difference. I appreciate some of this will be down to language barrier. However, it would still be great to paddle with you sometime, maybe in your country

[@caide]

Thanks for your comments. This video is also 2,5 years old and a lot of water has flowed on the rivers after that :)

[@carlkoch6460]

Excellent video! I’ve been looking for a decent packrafting videos about Eddie turns and ferrying but they are almost all show kayaks. I know the concept is very similar but it’s great to see packraft specific videos. Thanks for sharing what you learned!

[@stephanelair8285]

Really cool, thanks.

[@JouniMaahi]

👍

[@berenikesdare]

I might say best video so far (says a teacher) those rocks are from slovenia?

[@caide]

They are from all over random trips.

[@berenikesdare]

@@caide highly relatble!

[@caide]

Shit, I have that 5th reason text there twice.