Fantastic video, great chunky explanation- was recommended this video by my paddle instructor today as I'm always asking awkward questions that require 9 minute long video answers ! Great job 😁👍

For my state of knowledge this video is perfectly explained, even if I don.t understand every word. Thx for this tutorial and I can learn a lot of the contents! Kind regards, Henry

This is a great explanation. I'm new to river kayaking and I wish this would have been explained during my intro course so that I would have gained a better understanding of how the current relates to spin momentum. I came away with a sense of confusion but after watching this it's like a light bulb just got turned on :-) Thanks

Great job. Meaty details. Your description of "spin is the enemy of directional momentum" could be translated to: "radial acceleration robs tangential acceleration". You did a good job of explaining the transition between linear motion (acceleration/velocity) and angular motion (accel/veloc). This helped me think about being more stable near eddy lines.

Great video, many thanks for the help

Thanks for this lesson, John. As you say, I was taught to lean downstream when leaving an eddy. I really need to work on the whole 5th minute of this video. I'm still learning and feel uncomfortable leaving the eddy flat, especially if the eddy line is strong. I once came close to flipping upstream when leaving a strong eddy line...I thought because I didn't have enough downstream edge. So...this is very interesting. Gotta get on the water and practice!

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I think it depends on boat and current, if you keep boat with a slicey bow flat you will flip upstream, but if you are in a creeker with volume you probably won't. Sometimes it's context dependent

Hi John, thanks for this vid. I've just taken up whitewater - I was aware of spin etc but only in relation to flat water. It really made me start thinking - I just hadn't thought about applying the same principles to moving water. I had to watch it three times to really understand what you meant. Your advice to keep the boat flat if not turning down stream is thought-provoking. I've been told to edge it each time I break in. But doing a ferry glide I naturally used the technique I have for a sea kayak breaking into a tide race - which is pretty much keeping it flat. If the water is surging (i.e. not flat) I'm guessing you just roll the hips to keep the boat flat to the surface. Also interested in your point about rocking when paddling. I'm gonna have to watch what I do in my WW boat - I'm not sure if I'm rocking or not. Thanks again. Great instruction - I like to understand how things work.

Thank u for the vidios they help me alot

fantastic explanation! However, I wonder if it applies still to modern boat designs that more edge is killing the momentum?

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