Upstream gates with Daniele Molmenti

[mielecustomer22]

Very good video and nice techinques demonstrated there. But remember you're aiming to pass through those gatyes carefully as to not touch them. Nice that you could spend some time will Molmenti.

[touJOURZZZ]

Hahahahhahahah. Dislike by Henni <3

[GhostPashka]

It is all certainly fine) I would be glad if somebody has written down all that he speaks in the text and has sent to me on Ghost999666@yandex.ru)) I from Russia study in a slalom and I wish to achieve successes in it.

If it does not make the big work for you. I will be very grateful if somebody helps me.

[TezyWatson]

I just bought that boat. HE IS IN MY BOAT AWESOME

[chillosaurus]

Great vid.. When can we see the next one? Maybe some downstreams?

[SportsceneTV]

Don't know yet to be honest. When I do have some spare time or when one of the canoe sports associations will commission Sportscene.

[larskayak]

Ciao Daniele!

Once again, thanks a lot for this video! It helped me a lot:-)! I really like your paddling style, you paddle with a lot of power on the blade, but also very technical. You don't see that quite often.

I got a question. At the end of the race, we get tired, how did you get the mental strength to still be able to have huge amounts of pressure on the blade? Do you have any tips for me to get stronger mentally?

Tanks a lot!

[natewinslow]

This is a great video. I've watched it again and again. Thanks for making and posting it!

In the basic upstream should I try to keep the submerged blade upstream of the gate line through the entire turn or is there something more subtle going on?

[SportsceneTV]

In an upstream gate you want to stay as high as possible without interfering with the mechanics of your stroke and your posture. Its important that you can still make a good stroke and your posture is correct. Whats good and whats correct is personal.

Also you always want to keep pressure on the blade.

Coming back to your question where to keep the blade, there is not one particular place where the blade has to be. It depends on what is explained in the above.

Hope this helps.

[ndfuller112gh]

Thanks for the response, I have a galasport, cool I don't know whether my shoulders are strong enough to cope with my hand so far behind my head. and yeah i understand. Thanks for the tips also.

[ndfuller112gh]

Awesome video thank you for doing this.

I have noticed that when doing the basic upsteam on the flat water your top hand is quite far behind your head yet on the moving water it isn't. Why do you put your top hand so far back on the flat.

Also on the reverse stroke upsteam, why on the gate with the large current do you use a reverse and not a basic?

Also I am struggling to get my boat pivoting quickly on a reverse stroke, do you have any pointers?

[danimolm]

Ciao and thanks!

So..its a my peculiarity to move the up hand: i need to feel more hard the "lever" of my bottom hand and the blade on the water.

- in that upstream, I could use the basic also, but the gate was very IN the eddy so i had time to prepare a good reverse stroke, so you can be more close to the pole.shortest way = less time.

[danimolm]

- to turn faster: try to make the stroke more far from boat, nearer to level water. OR get the boat more flat (less tail underwater) OR turn the shoulders more and imagine to move your legs with the abs and leave the blade in that point of water... OR just buy a CAIMAN boat! :)

[ndfuller112gh]

@danimolm Daniele I have just noticed that your hands move up and down on the shaft of the paddle a lot, is this deliberate? If so why do you do that? Just to change the lever?

[Flufmeister]

very inspiring :-)

[mebara2006]

Great video !

I'll try it on next Sunday.

He he he....

[fanekaamc]

another great video with daniele molmenti...

it look´s so easy...

I've been trying this moves =D

[canoemania85]

video piacevole.!!! proverò ad imparare la vostra tecnica

[rpcolbeck]

very nice! You make it look so easy.

I'm only a mediocre Masters' slalom paddler of a few years, but Daniele would you call that first one a Basic Upstream?! You enter almost on inside stroke, dufek, subtle slice, and exit on the same inside stroke. Looks a bit tricky to me. I would have thought the basic upstream is the third one - sweep, dufek, and sweep out, although even there you are subtly sliding your dufek under the pole. However, maybe I was taught differently in Canada!

[danimolm]

Ciao, you're not the first that make me think about that. For basic we ment the easyest way to be fast in an upstream gate (the goal of slalom). I can't say what is easyer but i can say that in the sweeping ones (3rd tech) u have more risk to touch and for a moment u dont have the control of the boat. Control that you have only with the blade in the water as in the 1st.This is just an example why i think the 1st is more important to learn.u can do 99% of upstream and be sure to be safe and fast.

[TomasMaslanak]

nice

[larskayak]

Great video, going to try it all this night at my training =D

[danimolm]

its meeeeee :)

well done Rob!