Kayak: The New Frontier: The Animated Manual of Intermediate and Advanced Whitewater Technique

Laugh and learn kayaking skills, from basic to advanced, through detailed text and more than 400 humorous illustrations!

If you want to learn how to paddle—and laugh out loud while doing so—William Nealy’s classic illustrated kayaking-skills manual remains dead-on hilarious. Kayak demonstrates important paddling techniques through humorous illustrations, along with detailed explanations from the renowned kayaker.

This book is perfect for beginners and more experienced paddlers, from hardcore hippy hairboaters who used to catch air in their block-long Dancers to insane youngsters clattering tiny plastic boats down steep creeks with more rocks than water. You’ll get to know everything from kayak and rapids anatomy to paddling techniques to river rescue methods.

Inside you’ll find

• Over 400 illustrations that break down even the most complex kayaking skills
• Carefully crafted information to reflect the latest in paddling technology
• How-to descriptions that make even difficult whitewater techniques understandable

William Nealy is back and more useful and entertaining than ever. You may break a rib laughing, but with him holding your hand, you’ll be less likely to break a bone while boofing an insane rapid or even an entire waterfall!

ISBN-13: 9780897325899

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press

Publication Date: 05-01-2007

Pages: 180

Product Dimensions: 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

Series: William Nealy Collection

A world-famous cartoonist, William Nealy is best-known for his groundbreaking book “Kayak,” which combined expert paddling instruction as well as artful caricatures and parodies of the whitewater enthusiasts themselves. The quality of his work transcends its subject; this book, and the others that followed, spawned a host of imitators and made William a cult figure in the world of outdoor sports. Born on February 4, 1953, Nealy grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. Never comfortable in a highly structured environment, he left high school before graduating and then attended St. Johns College, eventually graduating from Birmingham-Southern. He brought a thorough and rigorous intelligence to his interests and avocations, all of which, in his hands, became arts.

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Kayak: The New Frontier

The Animated Manual of Intermediate and Advanced Whitewater Technique

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By Nealy, William

Menasha Ridge Press

Copyright © Nealy, William
All right reserved.
ISBN: 9780897325899

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Hump Jumping – It’s hard to “get air” going off a big slanting drop. However, you can use irregularities on the face of the drop (humps, bumps) as mini ski ramps to launch from. When contemplating a hump jump ALWAYS inspect your launch hump carefully…an upstream-pointing face irregularity can pin you or literally rip the bottom out of your boat (and you)! By studying aeriation (or lack of aeriation) on or near the hump you can make a number of safety oriented decisions.




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Table of Contents

Flip Animation Instructions

Introduction

Paddle Fu

Hydrotopography

Air Traffic Control

Swimming Self Rescue

Self Rescue

River Rescue

The Joy of Flood (Big Water Technique)

First Aid for Riverrunners

Appendix: survival, interface, braces, etc.

Glossry of Riverese

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