RIVER KINGS CATCHING EDDIES SKILL B...

Hey everybody today we are going to discuss. 

Eddie's catching eddies getting out of bed is the primary focus will be getting into the eddies today. 

And this is a vital skill that helps you break the Rapids down from just one continual long stretch of chaos, sometimes into just very small, manageable pieces of a rapid itself. 

So to start off the bat, I'm gonna catch what we call a rock star Eddie, especially for a newcomer to this skill here, but I'm going to pick a very small boat while Eddie in the middle of the river there it is. 

I may just come in here and slam right into it, there you go, I'm in the Eddie, I am not moving, everything is under control. 

And then he will break it down, I got the approach angle. 

Then, looking at my speed coming in, don't want to go too fast or too slow, then I want to a downside stroke in an edge, the boat. 

And then grab that eddy with the paddle to the other side and put yourself right in. 

It's as simple as that and as hard as that. 

And what do you several more and i'll show you some tips and some things not to do as we make our way down the river here. 

Now before I get too far you have to know it in Eddie is, and that's anywhere where there is an obstruction or barrier there doesn't let the water flow downstream and what will happen is the water. 

Will flow around this object and then right behind the object will be a pocket of water that doesn't flow. 

And even some of these little Rapids you can see there's areas where the current is not as fast and those are moving eddies, but they're still ill at ease. 

And I am coming down through here, behind that big rock, there in my left there's company and Eddie behind any obstacle that sticks out the world will be indebted. 

Now there's kind of an empty pocket here, but there's mostly because of alleged poor over. 

So there's an active rapid happening, but I am still in the pocket of the forms, basically an eddy in the river you can see I am coming in another pocket about right here. 

And so there's a lot less water here and then I'm going to show you edging. 

Edging is lifting the boat edge towards the upstream side. 

So right now I'm lifting my left. 

Hip a little bit lift my left knee in the water and I'm letting the water pass under the boat. 

And I'm doing well surf in here just to kind of show you what edging is. 

No matter which side of the boat is upstream. 

You let the water pass under that by lifting that edge up. 

The lean forward. 

My boat goes into water. 

So you know, even leaning back, leaning forward if you're facing backwards whatever you have to do and this is just another very dangerous spot or one to point out all the water coming out of that law. 

Very little going over, that's a death trap, do not get near things like that go round them. 

And. 

Here I am coming through this rapid, not a lot of any potential here and this is what most Rapids have looked to you guys. 

Who don't know much about Eddie every rapid looks like this is just one big jambo of water coming down the river. 

And there's nothing to do but keep your nose pointed straight and keep going. 

And that's fine, a lot of people do that. 

But learning how to catch eddies is gonna open up a whole lot of river to you and a lot of possibilities, so I'm going to try to catch this one, my anglers coming in, I'm going to shoot right. 

To the right of that rock and about now off side stroke, leaned the boat left go. 

And keep that lean in this next area is kind of a next level from what i've been catching, if you're good and comfortable with catching some of those other words, take it up to something of about this caliber. 

And it will happen for you a lot faster because there's a lot more energy in the water, so if you do it right, it's going to work really good if you do it wrong, it's not. 

It's all about the timing stroke wing grab. 

In the Eddie. 

Nice and smooth. 

Now on this exit, I am just going to lean downstream and instead of paddling, I'm gonna put my pedal in there and act like a sail on the green waters, he called it two paddles on the water I hold that paddle there and catch current. 

And just hold it and it'll pull me into the current. 

There you go so it's not a solid stroke where you're moving your paddle sometimes. 

Keeping your paddle in the water and letting the current pull on it is just as or more effective. 

Now we're coming up on another Eddie. 

You guessed it, this one is a much less dynamic Eddie, so you can see there's much less. 

Effort in a lean there's not as much lean as a really well defined pocket. 

So the eddy itself is gonna determine. 

How dynamic your actions have to be. 

And you gotta match the energy of the water has so if it's a really hard any line, massive current hitting a big wall of dead moving water or water going in the other direction, which is called a hard Eddie. 

You're going to have to do all this much more pronounced in much faster but little eddies like this. 

Not so much. 

Just do the right technique and the right timing and your pop right into India. 

This one here is shallow on the entry. 

So you kind of have to wait and you can see it's just much less dynamic than some of the others i've been doing, but all the principles still apply. 

And catching to three eddies leading up to a little feature like this allows you to scout and here I am OK, I decide to go right there sitting in this pocket has allowed me to study the rapid. 

And I see the water is flowing out of that little waterfall right about where I was pointing so that's where I'm going to shoot for it. 

If you don't do these eddies, you're going to have to make a whole bunch of decisions really quickly, from the beginning to the end of any long stretch of Rapids. 

Being able to catch eddies. 

Is very important to help break down this decision, making process into something a lot more manageable. 

You can do them on the bank. 

You can do it anywhere, just find a rock, you see it, there's nettie. 

Waiting to be your friend, you go introduce yourself. 

Another consideration is your style of boat, and here I am in a play boat which is meant to serve and you know. 

Do tricks and stuff in waves. 

Make the most of the Rapids you have. 

Though it is also the most maneuverable kayak out there, this style of kayak so if you like a longer boat, a recreation boat, a fishing kayak, you really don't have the option to catch some of the edits, I'm catching the day and this vote. 

But you just need to look for bigger eddies and start practicing your skills. 

But if you're looking to take your kayaking up a level or two into what kind of water you can get into and i've seen this a lot of years, people get a boat and they realize how much fun the Rapids are, and then they try to get into a little bit more white water. 

In the wreck boat that just not a good pairing. 

You need a skirted boat with a lot of maneuverability and zero keel short length. 

And here you see me going gonna catch an eddy. 

You're probably wondering why I didn't catch any of those at East. 

So after a day of kitchen at ease, I go through rapid and didn't catch one. 

It seemed odd to you, I hope. 

When you look back up and see that massive Eddie pocket would've been an easy one to catch. 

But i'll catch this one instead. 

Same principle applies to all of them, just timing, speed, your angle. 

Off side stroke right when your nose gets to the edge of the eddy lean that boat. 

And then put that stroking there to grab the water in the eddy and you're in. 

So you should be able to see the ease in which I just maneuver the kayak in and around this river coming in and out of any feature I want in the area I want. 

Basically I can go anywhere on this river with this kayak. 

Without feeling out of control, that's the difference between a kayak made for whitewater in a kayak that's not made for white water. 

So if you're trying to get into some white water and you're having some difficulty, you flip a lot, you got this boat just doesn't want to. 

Agree with the situation and might not be all you, so don't get discouraged, you might need to step it up into a new boat, and I would not suggest Apple a boat to start, i'd go with the creek boat. 

And there was pointing to a better place to enter that area. 

But a white water boat is going to allow you to go to the next level in your kayak and safely. 

And efficiently, otherwise you're going to still have fun possibly. 

But you can be a lot more wet and you're gonna do a lot more swimming and you're gonna do a lot more draining your boat. 

And that was fun for a couple, little eddies. 

Got another little bit of white water coming up. 

But if you learn how to take this skill set and just kind of break up the rapid, you can not look at 200 yard stretch of Rapids, you can look at 15 yards here, 10 yards there. 

5 feet whatever it takes. 

And get down that a lot. 

A lot more control. 

So you saw it out there. 

How I. 

And I broke that ramp it up a feudal times, there's not a whole lot you can do with it, the more intense river becomes. 

And the more catalyze, the water is with rocks. 

You can catch a lot more and more pronounced at ease and kind of empty heart one to the other that's pretty much for the most part, continual flow, but there's always something to catch, if you'll practice, doing this is gonna make you a much, much better pattern. 

MS turn around and get some random. 

Here's a clip from a recent trip on the tellico but a 6 foot ledge. 

You'll and then you turn around and get your bearings, so my buddy cabinet, that little green boat is sitting in that eddy and that's where I'm going so you can see all the principals at play here. 

That's a much more dynamic, much more constricted river. 

When you compare it to something like this. 

But the principles still apply you practice on something like that, you be able to go to the next level. 

In this clip I was intending to follow Kevin off this 12 foot waterfall for some footage and expected him to go left. 

In any shoes to the right and down below, the normal place to be is left not right, so not knowing where he was. 

And what his state of being was under there didn't want to land on him, made a snap decision to get into that edit to the right last second. 

And that happened just speed above this waterfall. 

On a last minute decision and now I can go over in a safe manner so as you can see, it's a vital skill that you are going to need to have, so you may not be at a waterfall but you can still practice. 

Right there. 

Nothing to it. 

今天我们要讨论的是捕捉旋涡的问题，也就是说，今天的主要焦点将是进入旋涡。

这是一项至关重要的技能，可以帮助你将急流从一段持续的长时间混乱中分解出来，有时甚至分解成非常小的、可控制的急流本身。

所以首先，我要抓住我们所说的岩石洄水，特别是对于这个技能的新手来说，但我要选择一条非常小的船，而洄水就在河中央。

我可能会进来直接撞上它，好了，我在洄水里，我不动了，一切都在控制之中。

然后他会把它分解，我得到了接近角。

然后，看着我的速度来了，不想开得太快或太慢，然后我想在一个边缘向下划水。

然后用另一边的桨抓住那个漩涡，把自己放进去。

就这么简单，就这么难。

我们还会再做几件事，我会告诉你一些小贴士和一些不应该做的事情，当我们顺流而下的时候。

现在，在我走得太远之前，你必须知道它是什么，那就是任何有障碍的地方。

或者不让水流向下游的屏障，水会绕着这个物体流动，然后物体的正后方就会有一个不流动的水袋。

即使是一些小急流，你也可以看到有些地方的水流速度没有那么快，这些都是移动的旋涡，但它们仍然很安全。

我从这里下来，在那块大石头后面，在我的生命中，任何突出水面的障碍物后面都会有一个漩涡，它们会上瘾。

现在这里有一个空水袋，主要是水流停止。

所以有一个快速发生的行为，但我仍然在一个口袋里，这个口袋基本上在河里形成了一个漩涡，你可以看到我正在进入另一个口袋，就在这里。

所以这里的水少了很多，然后我将向你们展示边缘，边缘是将船的边缘抬向上游。

所以现在我把左手举起来。

把我的左膝抬入水中，我就会让水从船底流过。

我在这里玩得很好，只是想让你看看什么是边缘。

无论船的哪一边是逆流而上。

你把那条边抬起来，让水从那下面流过去。

身体前倾。

我的船下水了。

所以你知道，即使是向后倾斜，如果你是向后倾斜，也要向前倾斜。

无论你要做什么，这只是另一个非常危险的地方，或者是指出所有来自该定律的水的地方。

一点点过去，那就是死亡陷阱，不要靠近那些绕过它们的东西。

而且。

我正在经历这样的急流，这里没有太多的潜力，这就是大多数急流对你们的期望。

谁不太了解洄水呢？每次急流看起来都像是顺流而下的一大滩水。

别无他法，只能挺直你的船头，继续前进。

这没关系，很多人都这么做。

但是学会了如何捕捉它，它就会向你打开一大片河流，有很多可能性，所以我会试着捕捉这条河流，我会进来，我会向右击。

在那块岩石的右边，也就是现在，冲水的时候，船向左走。

在下一个中保持这种精益比我一直捕捉到的要高一个层次，如果你对捕捉到其他一些感到满意，那就把它提升到这个水平。

这对你来说会发生得更快，因为水中有更多的能量，所以如果你做对了，如果你做错了，效果会很好，但事实并非如此。

这一切都是关于计时划水的抓取。

在洄水里。

又漂亮又光滑。

把你的桨留在水里，让水流拉着它，效果一样好，甚至更好。

现在我们来看另一个洄水，你猜对了，这个是一个不那么有活力的洄水，所以正如你所看到的，它的活力要少得多。

精益的努力没有一个轮廓分明的口袋那么精益。

所以涡流本身将决定你的行动有多大的活力，你必须与水屋的能量相匹配，所以如果在任何一条线上都不是很难，巨大的水流就会撞到巨大的墙。

死气沉沉的水或流向另一个方向的水，这被称为硬洄水。

你将不得不做所有这些更明显、更快，但像这样的小漩涡。

没那么多。

只要使用正确的技术和正确的时机，你就能直接进入印度。

这里的这个伤情浅薄。

C需要等待，你可以看到它的活力远不如我一直在做的其他一些事情，但所有的原则仍然适用。

抓住三个漩涡，形成这样一个小特征，你就可以侦察了，我没事了，我决定坐在他的口袋里，他允许我研究快速。

我看到水正从那个小瀑布流出，就在我所指的地方，所以我就在那里拍摄。

如果你不做这些漩涡，你将不得不非常迅速地做出一大堆决定，从任何一段漫长的急流开始到结束。

能够捕捉旋涡。

帮助分解这个决定非常重要，使过程变得更容易管理。

你可以在银行里做这些事。

你可以做很多工作，只要找到一块石头，你就能看到它，那就是洄水。

等着成为你的朋友，你去自我介绍一下。

另一个需要考虑的是你的船的风格，我现在坐在一艘游戏船上，你知道的。

在波浪中做一些技巧和东西，充分利用你所拥有的斜坡。

虽然它也是世界上最容易操纵的皮艇，但如果你坐的是一艘更长的船，一艘休闲船，一艘钓鱼皮艇，你真的没有机会赶上我今天在这本书中看到的一些洄水。

但你只需要寻找更大的漩涡，并开始练习你的技能。

但如果你想把皮划艇提升一两个级别，进入你能进入的什么样的水域，我已经看到很多年了，人们得到了一艘船，他们意识到急流是多么有趣，然后他们试图进入更多的白水。

在沉船上，这不是一个很好的组合。

你需要一艘机动性强、长度短的无龙骨的有裙船。

然后你看到我要去抓一个小漩涡。

你可能想知道为什么我没有赶上这些研究，所以在吃了一天之后，我快速浏览了一下，没有赶上。

我希望你觉得这很奇怪。

当你抬头看到这么大的口袋时，任何一个口袋都很容易被抓住。

但我还是要抓住这个。

同样的原则也适用于所有这些，只是时间、速度和角度。

当你的鼻子到达涡流边缘时，你就会倾斜那艘船。

然后在那里抚摸，抓住漩涡中的水，你就进去了。

这艘皮划艇在这条河里进进出出，在我想要的地方，基本上我可以带着他的皮划艇去这条河上的任何地方。

没有失控的感觉，这就是为白水而造的皮艇和不为白水而造的皮艇的区别。

所以，如果你试图进入一些白水水域，但你遇到了一些困难，你经常翻转，你遇到了这艘船，只是不想同意这种情况，这可能不是你所说的全部，不要气馁，你可能会。

可能需要把它加到一艘新的船上，我不建议开始玩游戏船，我会选择小溪船。

箭头指向一个更好的地方进入那个洄水。

但是一艘白水船可以让你安全地在皮划艇上更上一层楼。

而且效率很高，否则你可能仍然会玩得很开心。

但是你可能会更湿，你会做更多的游泳，你会做更多的排干你的船。

这对几个小漩涡来说很有趣。

又有一点白水涌上来了。

你能用它做什么，河水变得越汹涌，水就越能被岩石包围。

你可以捕捉到越来越明显的放松和空虚的心，这在很大程度上是持续的流动，但如果你这样做的练习能让你成为一个更好的模式，总会有一些东西可以捕捉到。

MS转过身来，随机找了一些。

这是最近一次在泰利科号上旅行的片段，但它有一个6英尺高的壁架。

你会转过身来，确定你的方向，所以我的朋友凯文在那艘绿色的小船上坐在那个漩涡里，这就是我要去的地方，这样你就可以看到所有的校长都在这里发挥作用。

这是一条更有活力、更狭窄的河流。

当你把它和这样的东西进行比较时。

但这些原则仍然适用，你可以在这样的事情上练习，你可以更上一层楼。

在这段视频中，我打算跟随凯文从12号瀑布下来拍摄一些镜头，并希望他向左走。

在任何向右和向下的嫩芽中，正常的位置都是左边。

不对，所以不知道他在哪里。

他当时的状态不想影响到他，所以他在最后一秒做出了一个仓促的决定，进入了右边的那个剪辑。

它恰好飞过了这个瀑布。

在最后一刻做出决定，现在我可以安全地过去了。

正如你所看到的，这是你需要具备的一项至关重要的技能，所以你可能不会像瀑布一样，但你仍然可以练习。

就在那里。

没什么大不了的。