| If you've never tried canoeing before then it's high time | | | | Sea Kayaking is recreational kayaking on the sea and |
| that you did. Basically, canoeing is an outdoor activity | | | | covers short day trips to year-long expeditions. It also |
| that involves paddling a canoe or kayak either as | | | | includes canoeing in heavy seas and tidal currents. Its |
| recreation, transportation or as a sport. Enthusiasts | | | | main difference is that is requires navigational skills. |
| stress that canoeing only uses a paddle to propel your | | | | There are also playboating (surfing while performing |
| kayak or canoe and human muscle power, nothing | | | | tricks), canoe camping (a combination of canoeing and |
| more. | | | | camping), wave skiing (using a craft that's just a little |
| There are differences in the way one propels a canoe | | | | bigger than a surfboard), surf skiing (using a longer |
| and a kayak. To propel a kayak, one uses a paddle | | | | craft that maneuvers well on breaking waves) and |
| with two blades and where the paddler sits with their | | | | white water rafting (features a group of people |
| legs directly in front of them. To propel a canoe, one | | | | paddling a large inflatable raft down a river). |
| uses either single or double bladed paddles and the | | | | As a sport, canoeing is governed by the International |
| paddler kneels or sits on a raised seat. | | | | Canoe Federation, which creates the standard rules |
| There are many forms of recreational canoeing. In | | | | for the different disciplines of canoe competition. There |
| fact, there are now hybrid canoes as well. Among the | | | | are only two canoe sports included in the Olympic |
| more popular forms of recreational canoeing are the | | | | Games, Sprint and Slalom. Among the other canoe |
| following: | | | | sports disciplines are the marathon, canoe polo, |
| Whitewater canoeing. As the name indicates, this | | | | whitewater racing, dragon boat racing, playboating, |
| refers to paddling down whitewater rivers for fun. | | | | extreme racing., outrigger canoe racing and canoe |
| There are different difficulty levels for whitewater | | | | surfing. |
| canoeing, including for short and long trips as well as | | | | My friends and I are eager to try white water rafting |
| extreme expeditions on raging torrents. This is the | | | | one of these weeks. We've already picked out a |
| most practiced form of kayaking these days. | | | | downhill river and it looks pretty wild. |