Learn to Freestyle Kayak #1: Vertical Force
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- Опубликовано: 22 июл 2018
- Want to have more fun in a playboat? Check out my 4-part series on the flatwater drills that will take you to the next level. If you practice these skills in the flatwater, you'll be able to learn twice as fast and have more fun! This video is about pushing downs on the ends of your boat vertically. If you practice this stuff, I promise that you will get better faster. This was shot on the Ottawa River in Canada, and in Iowa. Sorry for the audio quality. I'll clean it up before the next one:)
As always, these techniques are a combination of my thoughts and experiences combined with ideas that I've stolen from other great instructors such as Eric Jackson, Billy Harris, and Sam Ward. Feel free to steal my ideas and use them to teach people to have more fun kayaking :) 
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This is one of the only videos I’ve seen that explains it properly. Very useful - thanks
Wow! I tried those drills this morning... I have a lot of work to do! My abs are still burning! Thanks!!!😁
Going to give this a go in my Fun...stoked to try some drills that’ll help progress my skills ✊🏻
I wish we saw this when it came out , an informative video . Nice !!!!
dam Steve, you got this down nice...great videos to watch and learn...
Excellent ! very helpful to exercise
This was super helpful.. cheers mate!
Very explainful,
thanks.
Thank you SW.
Awsome. It's always interesting to get another take on how to do this stuff.
thanks for a great vid! also, I need one of those shirts. where do i get one!?
everything's is good
Awesome tips for training. Thanks. Can i ask your height and weight and what size/version Rockstar you are in for this video? And is it plastic, competition or carbon?
This is the Rockstar 4.0 Medium plastic standard. I'm only 5'4", 145 lbs. This boat is definitely more work to throw around in the flatwater than the 2016 was, but the pay-off is much bigger air, more retentive on waves and holes, much more leg-room, and faster on the wave. Hope that helps!
Thank you for answering. Wow, mad skills! But then again I understand you are a multiple national champion. I am about 5 feet 9 inches and about 150 pounds in a 2012 plastic JK Rockstar Medium. I just started last september 2017 and I can do flatwater loops, stern stall and "the Woody", but thats about it... I need to push off of objects to do flatwater loops since I have been struggling with not being able to master the bow stall. So much in fact that some hours before I saw your reply I put down an order for a plastic 2016 JK Rockstar Small after trying it out. I guess I wrongly blamed my lack of skills on a too big boat - and your information tells me it should be way possible for me with my weight and height. I like flatwater freestyle and hope after I can nail it with the Small i can transition it to the Medium and take the bowstalls into cartwheels and other cool stuff. I think this video series is going to be my pool routine forward. Too bad it only contained four flatwater routines ;-). Great training tips and something to strive and stretch for. Thanks a bunch :-)
Hi @@BoyJeenyus1 ! An update and feedback to you from someone who really followed your four tutorials. I am sure applying these drills in the poolsessions now this winter made ALL the difference for me. I now FINALLY broke the doublepump code into bowstall. And it also helped break the stern stall into bowstall into front loop combo. Is that called lunar orbit or something? Really love seeing your dynamic and flowing cartwheels. Like you say in your videos, using some time every session frustrating around the lean clean is REALLY worth its weight in gold and bossing my ends around helps ALL other moves! I am not able to do these cartwheels fluently in flatwater. I end up doing static bowstall - stern stall - bowstall - pausing and balancing for a long time and then repeat. I also have seen only 4-5 videos of "The Party Trick" - going dynamic and fluently from upside down to bowstall - and been struggling with that too. You have a really quality easy way of explaining things that seem complicated. Would it be possible for you to make a video of flatwater cartwheeling and "the party trick" in the style you made this video series. In any case; thanks a bunch for these already produced videos. They were awesome and helped me break through some personal barriers and establish a good learning routine in practice! Kudos!
@@eriksendaniel YES! So happy to hear that
@@BoyJeenyus1 I’m exactly your size (yay... =} ). I recently picked up a 4.0 (M) and it is kicking my butt rolling. Can you tell me how much seat you’ve added? Any other suggestions?? THANKS!!!
Are the first 4 minutes good for learning a double pump?
those drills are GREAT for learning to double pump
What model of jackson is it?
Rockstar I think