New Forwards Paddling Course

We had been asked by our subscribers for a course on the forwards stroke.  As it is the stroke you use the most as a sea kayaker it was certainly something we wanted to cover.  We were lucky enough to have the perfect winter weather with a massive high pressure throughout our filming period.  We knew that we would need some high quality slow motion shots to clearly show the technique and also we wanted to capture James paddling and talking to the camera at the same time.  We managed to achieve this by filming from an electric powered boat.  The silent motor and limited wake meant we could film James close up and record the audio without the noise of a conventional outboard engine.  We hope you agree that the resulting filming is nice to watch and really clear audio.  

There is a lot of technical information in the course and we had to be careful not to go into too much detail as the forwards stroke is a large topic.  We will be adding some more detailed info for paddlers wanting to eek out marginal gains in our future Performance paddling lessons.  We have separated the stroke into 3 phases to help with the structure of the course.  We also have lots of foundation exercises looking at some of the key principles to an efficient stroke.

We have already started the planning for the Performance and Greenland lessons that will be added to this course soon.

We hope you enjoy this introductory lesson.