Solo Open Whitewater Canoeing with Tom Foster - Part 1 of 3

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An Instructional Video with the Focus on Carving. Tom Foster does a complete and excellent job of teaching basic and advanced canoe techniques. Part 1, here, includes Introduction, Basic Info, Concepts, Carving Onside, Carving Outside. This is a great video for any open boater.
And the bonus is Tom's thick yankee accent. If we put him together with Wayne Gentry on a video, we'll fully represent the North & South!

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7 окт 2021

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@unclejohnthezef Год назад

Wow! The straight real story of how to learn ww! Thanks Tom!!!

@Arboreal-J 2 года назад

Really great video.

@marksavage3636 2 года назад

Very helpful Tom thank you! I'll show this to my classes

@Mitch_Ryder 2 года назад

Don’t know how you keep finding these old videos…but thanks!

@whitewater-video 2 года назад

I run whitewatervideo.com, so I have a lot of videos! I still have some DVDs that aren't on YT for sale at $5.95 at new.whitewatervideo.com Buy them all, please!

@Mitch_Ryder 2 года назад

@@whitewater-video cool…thanks, I’ll check them out.

@davidhausam6500 17 дней назад

What kind of paddle is Tom using?

@paully8794 2 года назад

Does the practise of paddling on the side the boat is turning apply to open canoe solo while paddling a canoe sitting backwards in the front seat? Just wondering cause sitting back further changes things some.

@whitewater-video 2 года назад

Generally, yes. But in a tandem boat paddled backwards (I have a Dagger Dimension like that) the boat is so wide that some strokes are really hard to do, like offside strokes. I just switch hands. Since I've done that all my career, I'm as good on my left as my right.

@mistymountainrambler61 Год назад

I don’t understand how you paddle on the right and the boat turns to the right? Mine turns away from the paddle side and I have to do a J-stroke to compensate but I don’t see you doing a J-stroke? I’d love to learn your technique 😊

@drosophilamelanogaster4625 2 месяца назад

because you are putting a correction into the forward stroke. The forward stroke ends at your knees. A pure forward stroke, with a flat boat, will move you forward. Add a tilt/lean/heel to the boat and it will carve that way. The tape on the boat in these videos is how long a forward stroke is

@drosophilamelanogaster4625 Год назад

Sooo...the previous owner of my new to me mad river outrage told me that Tom Foster used to own it(?)

@whitewater-video Год назад

Cool!

@davidcoller5033 2 года назад

For some reason this thing won't play. I can view part II but not this one.

@whitewater-video 2 года назад

Well, it used to, but now it won't play for me in Firefox. But it works in Chrome. The source I uploaded played anywhere. So YT or Firefox has done something.

@davidcoller5033 2 года назад

Now today it works. Go figure.

@garycousino4016 2 года назад

Am guilty of switching sides

@whitewater-video 2 года назад

I switch. I'm as good on right as I am on left. Took lots of practice. But some rapids are better paddled on one side than the other. Olympic paddlers were even switching this last Olympics.

@garycousino4016 2 года назад

@@whitewater-video Glad to hear that! I started out in cheap neoprene rafts back in the late sixtys. Got a fiberglass Prion Special kayak in the early seventys and ran thru several of those. Got an early Mad River Explorer and went to single blade and struggled with that. Was right handed and started using my left hand swinging a bush axe and driving in stakes while land surveying. Took a while but it really helped out. Have noticed that some rapids and even long stretches are best paddled on different sides. Raced in flat water briefly and got good at switching sides quickly.

@garycousino4016 2 года назад

@@whitewater-video What model is that Bell? Looks like a Mad River Outrage hull