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"A clear and simple guide to the essentials of getting started in open canoes..." -- Canoeist, July 2003.
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This illustrated guide on the essential skills of canoeing should be required reading for anyone getting into the sport. A section on the mechanics of good paddling is followed by a catalog of the most important strokes, each illustrated in sequential photos, with concise text on the key points. Essential river maneuvers--eddy turns, peel-outs, and ferries--are demonstrated by the Olympic paddling team of Wayne Dickert and Horace Holden, Jr.
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"A clear and simple guide to the essentials of getting started in open canoes..." -- Canoeist, July 2003.
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This illustrated guide on the essential skills of canoeing should be required reading for anyone getting into the sport. A section on the mechanics of good paddling is followed by a catalog of the most important strokes, each illustrated in sequential photos, with concise text on the key points. Essential river maneuvers--eddy turns, peel-outs, and ferries--are demonstrated by the Olympic paddling team of Wayne Dickert and Horace Holden, Jr.
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stern pry, tandem paddlers, cross bow draw, rotating your torso, tandem boat, eddy line, bow paddler, stern paddler, corrective stroke, solo paddler, plant the paddle, control thumb, whitewater boat, tandem canoe, upstream angle, rotate your torso, low brace, turning strokes, secondary stability, near gunwale, shaft hand, eddy turn, thigh straps, reverse sweep, forward stroke New!
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Read this chapter before you pick up a paddle. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
stern pry, tandem paddlers, cross bow draw, rotating your torso, tandem boat, eddy line, bow paddler, stern paddler, corrective stroke, solo paddler, plant the paddle, control thumb, whitewater boat, tandem canoe, upstream angle, rotate your torso, low brace, turning strokes, secondary stability, near gunwale, shaft hand, eddy turn, thigh straps, reverse sweep, forward stroke New!
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- River Rescue by Les Bechdel in Back Matter
- Path of the Paddle: An Illustrated Guide to the Art of Canoeing by Bill Mason in Back Matter
- Paddle Your Own Canoe by Gary McGuffin in Back Matter
- First Aid (Ward Lock Family Health Guide) by Andrew Mason in Back Matter
- First Aid (Fit for Life) by John Books in Back Matter
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