Rapids in a canoe

well I was on my outdoor ed camping trip and we saw some rapids and so we decided to go down them in our canoes

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• canoe
• rapids
• camping
• fun
• mitch
• cool
• neat

[PolishPossy]

looks like people have nothing better to do than knock me for my drive to live life in the moment and just go for it .. in all fairness I am in the back and it is Tom that messes up, we had it under control we didn't die we had spotters and life saving training. It is the only footage of me in a canoe doing rapids maybe one day I'll do another one and update you all on my improvements . Life is a learning experince ....if you succeed you live if you fail you die. live quick time's tickin

[bushidosamurai100]

they clearly had no idea what they were doing paddles just skimming the water, no control and a huge rock in center, that could of bin nasty. but hey i bet they enjoyed it.

[hoz49]

Mistakes: both paddlers on same side of canoe. Learn draw and pry strokes. Moving the canoe sideways is sometimes more important that forward. Bow paddler sets the line, should have stayed on the portside and used draws to miss the rock and initiate the bottom turn.

Correct: stern seems to be executing pretty good brace stroke.

Someday, if you keep paddling and learning, you will look back and laugh at this video. Remembering what you thought you knew, and knowing what you didn't.

[canadianian]

no helmet, no apparent skill, no respect.

you don't learn to drive by hitting the freeway on your first day, you learn the rules and build up.

[theGnarlz]

dont listen to these cracker jacks! you have to start somewhere. All you guys who are ripping them down for the 'incorrect' yata yata yata...shut up. get a life, or better yet....learn to live a little dangerously....btw WW canoeing on class II-III is hardly dangerous in the grand scheme of things.

[acodega]

Actually, the paddler in the front is more in charge of the steering of the boat in whitewater. I personally see no need for helmets in such easy whitewater in an open classic canoe. The main reason for helmets is to protect your head if you are in the boat upside down. They would fall out well before the boat even approached being inverted.

[corpseicle]

if you're in the back, consider everything your fault. think about where one would find a rudder on a boat.

i appreciate that this is a calculated risk, but the "if you succeed you live if you fail you die" mentality won't get you far in the outdoor ed world, and especially not with paddlers or climbers. if you wear a helmet, people will buy the 'calculated risk' think more easily. that, and you won't look like a boyscout.

[GURNzy]

these guys suck at all aspects of canoeing... learn to j-stroke, and they did not really need helmets in 4 inch deep water... also they did the one thing you never want to do in any rapid, go broadside to the current.

[Baniganigs]

yeah that is big hawk lake .well its in the same lake loop

[sparklefairy5]

big hawk lake?