Product Details
- Starring: Kent Ford
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- Binding: VHS Tape
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- Director: John Davis
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- EAN: 9780966056945
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- Format: Color, NTSC
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- ISBN: 0966056949
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- Number of Items: 1
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- Product Group: Video
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- Release Date: 1992-01-01
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- Title: The Kayaker's Edge : Dynamic Whitewater Insrtuction
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Avg Customer Rating: 
Product Description: Jump into the river and start having fun with The Kayaker's Edge. This instructional video, written and produced by 1992 Olympic forerunner and announcer Kent Ford, paces you through basic and intermediate techniques of white-water kayaking. The style is informal, often humorous, but the skillful camera work catches nuances of motion and points of view you'd never see with a live instructor. Of course, no video can replace live instruction (safety first!), but watching before and between lessons can greatly improve your learning time on the river. You'll see rolling, bracing, side surfing, and ruddering, as well as basic play on easier rapids. The slow-motion and underwater shots alone are worth the price of the tape, but the added verbal instruction and footage of kayakers surfing through all levels of rapids make The Kayaker's Edge essential for the white-water enthusiast. --Rob Lightner
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Customer Reviews
Every kayaker should at least review this video
This is an old school training video, but the concepts are still valid. The boats may be a bit larger, however, when learning the strokes and carves this is where you will find the tactics.This video covers the roll too. Sweep and C-to-C. Not in depth, but enough to study from. It also covers eddy turns and peel outs as well as carving and other necessary techniques.
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Early steps
Just beyond the very basics of sitting in the darned boat, Kent Ford's video was quite helpful to me a few years back. Returning from an intro to white water kayaking clinic, this video provided plenty of basic river reading and playing skills: entering and exiting eddies, nailing that roll and slidding onto surfing waves. It's not substitute for hands-on training. But it's the kind of video you can watch in pieces -- week nights -- and then hit the water on and work on these basics on the weekends. And, it's fun.
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