White Water Canoeing: Mastering the S-Turn 

oh to have that silky smoothness... I guess practice practice practice!!! thank you for these instructionals.

Thanks I could see nice paddling technics.

Your control of the canoe is amazing to watch Ray

Amazing video!

This looks like where you stopped us for dinner during training 😃 hope you’re well, love the video. John

A great couple of days, Ray...thank you!

I always appreciate these clear and concise instructionals.

Brilliant and expertly demonstrated

Really good Ray. Could have done with this when I first started.

Another great video. I find the annotations and arrows useful in helping to explain what I'm looking at. Keep them coming 😀

Another excellent video - like the fact you pause it at key points and add lines and arrows to show flow and eddy lines.

Another excellent video to add to the collection Ray, thank you. Is there any prospect of one on reverse ferrying? That's my real bugbear!

Another great video Ray, any chance you could do a video on your camera set up for your videos?

Awesome, and thanks! You make it look so easy... I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on paddle styles (materials, shape, blade size, handle type, length, when to use, etc). I don't think you have one of those yet.

The current is nice on you 🙂 Fun starts when the edge of edy is notably tall 🙂.

Your videos are wonderful ray! How is that canoe set up? Are you just sitting/kneeling on a little bar or thwart? Is that so your knees don’t bend too much?

Very good video on crosses. Something that intrigues me as I struggle to learn to paddle lefty (primarily in my slalom C1, but it will be useful in my OC1 and trad boat too) is how other people alter things paddling on different sides. In respect of your weight shifts, I think you use more of a weight shift when coming back river right to river left, than when you paddle across river left to river right, where you seem to control more by altering knee pressure without moving your CG further out. The latter is obviously how I paddle a C1 (because there isn't much backup stability if you go too far with your weight), but it makes me wonder if you use pressure more than wieght shift on one side, and weight shift more than pressure on the other, perhaps this is something I do and part of why I feel so flippin ungainly when I paddle on the left... Something to check next time I get out on flat water for a left paddling session.

Great work . How do you practice control when leaning your weight. I can lean left , but my right side gets away from me " even on dry land".