Archive for April, 2009

Canoeing 101

When people decide to try out a new sport, beginners are advised to take classes to learn everything there is to know about the game. The same goes with canoeing since safety is important and will enable the person to appreciate this outdoor leisure activity.
Most classes are offered near water resorts situated by the lake [...]

Canoe Your Way To An Unforgettable Experience

Canoeing is one of the best ways to spend some of your free time. This perhaps is one of the few wonderful activities that you can enjoy by yourself or with friends and family. Another thing is that canoeing is so versatile in charm and experience that the young and old alike can enjoy it. [...]

Martial Arts Of Canoeing

Believe it or not, the practice of paddling a canoe has been linked to one of China’s age old martial arts: Tai Chi. Concepts behind the gentle flowing martial arts can be applied to the way canoeists put their paddle into the water and how they tackle the surface to produce fluid, efficient strokes.
Not that [...]

Canoe Safety

During the times that we are in the mood for a little boating at summer camp there was always one tool for transportation that almost never let us down. We are very much familiar with it because of all the time we tried to earn that scout badge for rowing it the best.
This little [...]

And A One, Two, Three, Stroke!

Paddling a canoe can be easy but it takes constant practice to be good at it. If you’re navigating flat waters, you might actually find it quite easy and fun since you’re mostly going forward and backwards. The only thing that you need to worry about are aching arm muscles the next day. But when [...]

A Peek Into Various Forms Of Canoeing

Back in the old days canoeing was invented to meet the basic needs of early people for transportation across rivers, streams, marshes and along other waterways. Back then canoeing was the primary and almost only means for long-distance traveling at one part of history all-throughout the entirety of the Amazon Basin, Polynesia and North America [...]