- Those used in peaceful and serene waters such as lakes, dams or seas.
- Those that serve for white water, so called for their turbulence. These waters refer mainly to water currents in the rivers, are called rapid and are of great interest to different aquatic sports.
1) eskimo roll .
2) navigate in groups This is a law of kayakists . There are even great kayak that they always practice and know where they get into and have needed help.
3) carry : this means dodge the most difficult area of the rapid (little navigable) and if the entire section is difficult or too difficult for you , you must walk or climb the shore. Avoid every fast that overcome your level and experience .
4) River Reading : you will acquire it has measured yourself in a few rivers. It consists of determining the route to follow in the rapid this can be done from the kayak or from the outside. You generally look for a language of the river where the obstacles that appear do not generate inconvenience . For this, observe where such a water tongue gets and the possibilities that it makes you hit against something.
5) pamp : consists of rowing hard before entering a well and just before he devours you you have to hit him a fort imposed to your boat with the whole body. It's about making strength as if your body would like push the boat and at the same time rowing strongly.
6) Recognize the Edies : you must have some entry knowledge to an "Edie". These are have been where there are no currents are only swirls and it is in these places where you can stop a time to read the river, or rest if necessary. Generally, these places are caused by stones, tree roots or the same course of the river that makes swirls form in certain places.
These places are generally unstable the shape enter them , the best way is to clicking the stone behind which is the edie and paddling on the side that the current is. Click means almost touching the stone with the tip of your boat and your body slightly overturned to the stone. This movement is going to turn the boat 180 degrees and at that time you must have support with your rowing so that it does not turn you. Tip never stop looking at the place where you are getting everything that happens in another place should not care. At least until you want to leave the Edie.
7) security : always with helmet and vest , do not be afraid of the wells only respect , then you leave to want to play in them.
8) dead raft : You let yourself take .
9) Entrance to the current : you put 45 degrees against the current and looking down the river, the river turns the boat and the Action ...
10) ferrin : as if you were entering the current and paddling almost a single side more the help of your leg to keep that address you cross you from shore to the shore or from Edie to Edie.
