Good advice I appreciate the technique

Very helpful!

great tips as usual 😃

Great tips. I’m keeping this one to add to my half hour tune up routine each time I go out. I spend a half hour concentrating on my stroke, being strict with myself. Then I go on to my entire paddling experience. It is similar to a musician practicing daily, then you can integrate the good habits into your art when you are with the rest of the orchestra. And once in a while you get to really cut loose!😜

Very Good Instructional Video. Try some footage from behind (with selfie stick) to get the whole kayak in, and in an orientation of the "paddler".

solid, thanks!

As always excellent production, excellent camera work, and very informative. I love your videos.

From my days of progressing from pure beginner through intermediate, I've avoided the pitfalls of the sunken paddle blade after the slap brace by not really using it anymore. I find the sculling low brace to be be more effective. There's more feel. And no matter how many seconds you brace or how hard you brace, your paddle stays near the surface. This way, it's instantly ready for your next "ninja move", depending on what's coming up. When you're under way and the kayak has forward (or backward) momentum, the slap brace effectively becomes a sculling brace anyway because the boat is moving across the water instead of before where in a true sculling brace YOU are sculling the blade through static water. It's amazing once you have some speed, how much purchase you have in the water when you can actually lean way INTO a turn on that low bracing blade for a quick, tight turn! I find it to be the most exciting maneuver, after a roll. In any case, the slap brace is an essential stepping stone to learn in your skill building journey.

@martin.feuchtwanger

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Note that 'low brace' vs 'high brace' and 'slapping brace' vs 'sculling brace' are two separate distinctions. That is, there are four different ways of bracing: low-slap, low-scull, high-slap, high-scull.

Good discussion, You might add that, at the same time you suddenly lift your knees and hips up, you curve your head and shoulders down -- even though it is counter-intuitive -- in order to bring the boat back upright.

@pep-lluismolinet342

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Good comment, this clarifies what in the video is mentioned as "to slide the kayak back underneath", tip number 3. I improved my low brace after learning to roll, to have a good roll you need a good hip snap, after developing a good hip snap I improved my low brace because I used this "knees and hips up" or "slide the kayak back underneath". The same happens with the high brace. I needed to learn how to roll on both sides to have a good high and low brace on both sides.

Well explained. Thanks.

In spite of having my level 2 I still consider myself a beginner but I am not a fan of the paddle slap. I adopted the Greenland paddle early on when I got into sea kayaking so that may be the reason. The slap just seems to me such a one shot and hope it works(those sudden surprise capsizes) vs the skulling brace always ready just by the GP's nature in use.

I was once told to learn a low brace you need to tilt the kayak until it is going over and learn to use the low brace recover. Every instructor I have had shows you how to do it and you practice. However, if you did not tilt far enough to go over, you come upright again regardless of how good or bad your brace was (unless you sink the blade and flip yourself).

@robertnissenbaum

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I don't teach to get to the point of capsize if the brace fails. It's a reflexive motion so I teach to practice the mechanics on both sides whenever you're just sitting still in your kayak. You don't learn the low brace if you're constantly worried about capsizing if it fails. You learn by practicing the mechanics. It's how I learned it and it's pretty bomb-proof on both sides.

@brandy1262

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@@robertnissenbaum I would agree and that is how I learned. However, I have never tried it to the point of capsize so I don’t really know if it works. I think that once you think you have the motion down, when you are out practising your self rescue you should find out if your braces really work. May add that to my next ‘self rescue day’.

@robertnissenbaum

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@@brandy1262 Once the motion is somewhat reflexive, the next step is to test it. Again, I found that if asked to pretend to capsize, my brain wouldn't cooperate. I find students hesitant to capsize into cold water on purpose so I create games that result in needing the brace to work. These days the motion is so instinctive that the last time I went over in a whirlpool on my offside, I low-braced out of the capsize rather than rolling!

@brandy1262

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@@robertnissenbaum When I do a self rescue session, I where my dry suit, otherwise I am very reluctant to dump in Bay of Fundy water!

@robertnissenbaum

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@@brandy1262 Here in the PNW it's the same thing. Hard on students to always be constantly capsizing in 50 degree or lower water temps while learning. It ends up being a negative experience. Me...I still hate wet exits LOL