Product Details

• Actors: Wayne Horodowich, Jeff Cooper, Greg Barton, Kent Fink, Randy Carlson
• Directors: Kent Ford
• Format: Color, Full Screen, NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: Performance Video
• DVD Release Date: March 1, 2003
• Run Time: 63 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000AMKI6
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #256,912 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

This exciting and entertaining video explores the basics of kayak touring. Everything from rescues to hot paddling techniques and basic seamanship skills are demonstrated and explained thoroughly. Features: Great locales featured include big surf, the Apostle Islands, Channel Islands, inland lakes and some of the top instructors in the business. Famed teachers explain all the elements of trip preparation, paddling strokes and rescue. Check out efficient paddling skills from the best in the world. Listen to the experts talk big crossings, navigation and how to recover from a capsize. Item Specifications: DVD Run time: 59 minutes Actors: Wayne Horodowich, Randy Carlson, John Davis. Director: Kent Ford

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must for any sea kayaker, August 18, 2000

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Michael J Edelman (Huntington Woods, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Performance Sea Kayaking (DVD)

Whether you're a begining paddler or someone who's been paddling for a few years, you'll be able to get something out of this tape. It features a number of well-known West Coast sea kayak instructors demonstrating paddling strokes, braces, rolls, and other techniques, all shown in a way that clearly illustrates what a properly done stroke or roll should look like. It also has good advice on trip planning, dealing with current and tides, and many other details.

I bought this tape based on a review in Sewa Kayaker magazing that couldn't praise it highly enough. I wasn't disappointed. After four years of paddling, this tape showed me what I needed to know to move my bracing and recovery strokes up to the next level.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good overview, but not much more to offer, August 2, 2004

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Svend (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This video is only useful as an additional instruction aid for absolute beginners to Kayaking. If you take a beginning strokes and safety course, which you should, then you'll already learn most of the information on this video. The video has so much material to cover, that it skims over each topic fairly quickly. Most all of the skills on the video are better taught by an instructor in person.

The video covers efficient and relaxed stroke techniques, wet exits, self and assisted rescues, cold-water safety, eskimo rolls, tides and currents, chart reading and navigation, and signaling for help.

This would be a useful video to own for those who are interested in the sport, but have only rented a few times, or for those who want to expose others to trying the sport.

A minor complaint of mine is that the video seems to have been filmed quite a while ago, complete with mullets and 80's-style haircuts and clothing. The self rescues section assumes that you don't have deck bungies to the rear of the cockpit, which most all kayaks come equipped with now.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Helpful. I've watched it repeatedly, November 8, 2001

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Stefan T. Wennik "stw" (Mass. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Performance Sea Kayaking (DVD)

There aren't a whole lot of sea kayak videos out there to choose from, so there's not a lot to compare this to. However, I do highly recommend this video. It covers a lot of ground (or water, if you prefer); and it does it in a very helpful way. It covers the basics and even some more advanced topics. It's important to note that you can't really learn any of these techniques by watching a video. You can only do that by getting out on the water and paddling. However, good videos like these help you when you're out there by clueing you in to the kinds of techniques you should be learning; and helping you to visualize the motions as you're practicing them.