Davey Hearn of Bethesda, Maryland, has some flatwater fun in his whitewater slalom canoe (C1). The photo is a screen grab from a stroke drills video put out by the U.S. slalom federation back in the 1990s. A few years ago I made a digital copy from my old VHS cassette, and you can now watch it here. The video includes drills for both kayak (K1) and C1. As you can see, the picture quality isn't the greatest: the boat Davey is paddling is actually bright yellow, believe it or not.
The drills in this video are what I'm doing when I paddle my whitewater boat in the harbor these days. Lacking any real whitewater here in the Mid South, I think these drills are the best way to get my body used to all the many movements I'll have to pull off when I do get on some whitewater, as I will in the Grand Canyon later this summer.
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