Hey David, been learning about R1 paddle and your videos have been a big help! Was wondering if you knew or could do a good video on how to pick the correct size T paddle. Once again your videos are great and have really explained things awesomely!
I like 60 inches just because that is the length of most customer carlisle standard paddles. Those are used for 14 foot boats with 20 inch tubes and most r1 boats have smaller tubes so you get more affective length with 60 inch paddle. I have seen some people just prefer longer 63 inch paddles. They are I think taller individuals around 6'2". R1 rafting is hard on the shoulder because the boat is heavy and there is a tendency to want to take full strength strokes. Because of that I would like to experiment with shorter paddles. Dragon boat racing paddles are way shorter than 60 inches. Maybe 52 to 54 inches. I was watching Olympics and solo kayak with single bladed paddles had strokes that were way over the top of the head. I mainly have always like the carlisle standard or outfitter paddle because it is easy to scull and pry for the r1 stroke. I have switched to Warner Bandit and at first it was way squirrelly but now I have been able to paddle it with out it wanting to slice and enjoy the extra performance from a lightweight strong fiberglass paddle.
David, when's the eta on the release date of your next video? I need to see some sweet rafting vids or some sweet rafting educational vids. Looking forward to rhe next one! Hell, yeah!
Surfers on surf boards can surf a glassy wave because surfboards are fast and aerodynamic. They have very little drag. So the weight of the surfer and board down the wave will keep them in it. But for R1 there is a lot of drag on the boat that will pull the boat over the glassy wave. Every molecule of water underneath the boat is shearing against the boat and pulling it downstream. But any presence of whitewater at the top of a wave is the start of a pile but more importantly it indicates that the water underneath that white is either stationary (not moving downstream) or is actually moving down the wave. This water meets the incoming glassy water in an explosive collision where you see whitewater. But the take home point is that under that whitewater is water that is actually moving upstream and is gripping the boat and shearing and trying to "pull" it upstream. So a good analogy would be a glassy wave is a constant speed treadmill more or less. And a breaking wave is two treadmills that are opposing each other. But the take home point. Is that for small breaking waves. It is not necessarily the the white pile that is doing the stopping of the boat. I would say that it is the grippy water that is moving upstream that stops the boats momentum so quickly. Thinking about it. Even for massive wave holes that have a huge white pile. That is just an indication that behind that curtain of white is literally a downward waterfall. So when boating into that is going to bring the boat to a dead stop. Or when trying to paddle over a sticky hole would be like paddling up and over a vertical treadmill going the opposite direction. Thanks for the comment. I like thinking of this stuff! Especially when encountering small holes. I always think, "That doesn't look like much." and then get instantly flipped and am left wondering why?
Now that I have practices my offside paddling I do. The main reason is that sitting on only on the Left side for me makes it really difficult to move to the Right without being low sided. A kayaker will move surfers Left to Right across a wave by leaning right and ruddering with the right paddle. If instead in a kayak you leaned left and tried to sweep your left paddle the kayaker would probably tip over. So to get used to paddling on my offside I would try to sit more centered in my boat and still try to use my left paddle to forward stroke and sweep the boat right. Kayakers are easily able to do this. They can lean right and still paddle on the left side. As an R1 sitting centered is about the best we can do. I am still not able to move left to right on my offside sitting on top of the wave on the right side of my boat and have good control to bring the boat back around and center it back up. That is difficult for me.
Hell yeah bro! Awesome video! Perfect explanation too!
Hell yeah. Great video
Hey David, been learning about R1 paddle and your videos have been a big help! Was wondering if you knew or could do a good video on how to pick the correct size T paddle.
Once again your videos are great and have really explained things awesomely!
I like 60 inches just because that is the length of most customer carlisle standard paddles. Those are used for 14 foot boats with 20 inch tubes and most r1 boats have smaller tubes so you get more affective length with 60 inch paddle. I have seen some people just prefer longer 63 inch paddles. They are I think taller individuals around 6'2". R1 rafting is hard on the shoulder because the boat is heavy and there is a tendency to want to take full strength strokes. Because of that I would like to experiment with shorter paddles. Dragon boat racing paddles are way shorter than 60 inches. Maybe 52 to 54 inches. I was watching Olympics and solo kayak with single bladed paddles had strokes that were way over the top of the head.
I mainly have always like the carlisle standard or outfitter paddle because it is easy to scull and pry for the r1 stroke. I have switched to Warner Bandit and at first it was way squirrelly but now I have been able to paddle it with out it wanting to slice and enjoy the extra performance from a lightweight strong fiberglass paddle.
David, when's the eta on the release date of your next video? I need to see some sweet rafting vids or some sweet rafting educational vids. Looking forward to rhe next one! Hell, yeah!
Gauley 2024 if all goes well!
@@r1-ing looking forward to it! Stay safe out there and have fun! Hell yeah
Can you define "glassy" please?
Smooth
Surfers on surf boards can surf a glassy wave because surfboards are fast and aerodynamic. They have very little drag. So the weight of the surfer and board down the wave will keep them in it. But for R1 there is a lot of drag on the boat that will pull the boat over the glassy wave. Every molecule of water underneath the boat is shearing against the boat and pulling it downstream. But any presence of whitewater at the top of a wave is the start of a pile but more importantly it indicates that the water underneath that white is either stationary (not moving downstream) or is actually moving down the wave. This water meets the incoming glassy water in an explosive collision where you see whitewater. But the take home point is that under that whitewater is water that is actually moving upstream and is gripping the boat and shearing and trying to "pull" it upstream. So a good analogy would be a glassy wave is a constant speed treadmill more or less. And a breaking wave is two treadmills that are opposing each other. But the take home point. Is that for small breaking waves. It is not necessarily the the white pile that is doing the stopping of the boat. I would say that it is the grippy water that is moving upstream that stops the boats momentum so quickly. Thinking about it. Even for massive wave holes that have a huge white pile. That is just an indication that behind that curtain of white is literally a downward waterfall. So when boating into that is going to bring the boat to a dead stop. Or when trying to paddle over a sticky hole would be like paddling up and over a vertical treadmill going the opposite direction. Thanks for the comment. I like thinking of this stuff! Especially when encountering small holes. I always think, "That doesn't look like much." and then get instantly flipped and am left wondering why?
David, Do you always sit on wave side? Something I've been thinking about lately? Allows you to make use of the pry for angle right?
Now that I have practices my offside paddling I do. The main reason is that sitting on only on the Left side for me makes it really difficult to move to the Right without being low sided. A kayaker will move surfers Left to Right across a wave by leaning right and ruddering with the right paddle. If instead in a kayak you leaned left and tried to sweep your left paddle the kayaker would probably tip over. So to get used to paddling on my offside I would try to sit more centered in my boat and still try to use my left paddle to forward stroke and sweep the boat right. Kayakers are easily able to do this. They can lean right and still paddle on the left side. As an R1 sitting centered is about the best we can do. I am still not able to move left to right on my offside sitting on top of the wave on the right side of my boat and have good control to bring the boat back around and center it back up. That is difficult for me.