OSK Blog
If you paddle your composite sea kayak for long enough you will be sure to chip or crack the gel or even put a hole right through the fibreglass or carbon-kevlar. With the right equipment, materials and knowledge it is simple to fix your kayak at home. If you want a completely invisible repair the...
Sea kayaks are an incredibly sea worthy craft. With the right skipper they are capable of being paddled in a range of conditions including wind, swell, surf, tidal currents and waves. Waves are something that most paddlers are going to encounter at some point whilst out on the water. In our most rec...
It is so much fun to paddle in-between rocks and close to cliffs but this does come with the risk of damaging your sea kayak. If you are out for the day and some distance from a get out point you will need to make an emergency repair to get you home. There are a few different materials you can use...
We have just released a new series of lessons in our forwards paddling course where we look at using a Greenland paddle to paddle forwards efficiently. The are many aspects to the stroke that are contrastingly different to the Euro blade stroke. These differences are driven by the different blade ...
Online Sea Kayaking started out with a focus on high quality skills development courses. We still have quite a few courses we want to film and produce but we know that, in time, we will have a complete library of courses. The Bonus Material section of the Online Sea Kayaking website has proven to be...
We have recently started working with NRS and both of us will be wearing NRS equipment out on the water. We are really excited to form this partnership as it will not only keep us warm and dry out on the water but it will also help us share our content with some new paddlers from around the world. ...
Some of our subscribers suggested that we should release our general safety video so that it is available for all sea kayakers. So we have added it to our YouTube channel and here on the blog. We had not edited the video together thinking it was a stand alone lesson but it was part of the OSK Libr...
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 kne...
A sea kayak is designed to be paddled forwards efficiently so they are not that great at moving sideways! It is therefore, really important to have an efficient draw stroke. We often move our kayaks sideways when we are manoeuvring in to perform a rescue, rafting up with a buddy or exploring amongs...
Getting the right paddle for our size, build and paddling style is going to make an enormous difference to our enjoyment out on the sea. The paddle is like our surgeon’s knife, we use it to control the kayak, provide power and precision and it’s the bit of kit we need to pick carefully. Of course, w...
The Rolling a Sea Kayak Online Course has been the most challenging course to film and edit so far. We wanted to create a course that went further than just showing you how to roll. There are lots of YouTube videos out there of how to roll but they are missing a key element. How do you learn the ...
It is now well over 3 years since we first started filming content for Online Sea Kayaking. We started off with a road trip to Croatia with a couple of SKUK kayaks on the roof and we met up with a Croatian film crew (Sinisa and Marin). The filming we did out there was intense with long 16 hour day...
