Now that I have practices my offside paddling I do. The main reason is that sitting on only on the Left side for me makes it really difficult to move to the Right without being low sided. A kayaker will move surfers Left to Right across a wave by leaning right and ruddering with the right paddle. If instead in a kayak you leaned left and tried to sweep your left paddle the kayaker would probably tip over. So to get used to paddling on my offside I would try to sit more centered in my boat and still try to use my left paddle to forward stroke and sweep the boat right. Kayakers are easily able to do this. They can lean right and still paddle on the left side. As an R1 sitting centered is about the best we can do. I am still not able to move left to right on my offside sitting on top of the wave on the right side of my boat and have good control to bring the boat back around and center it back up. That is difficult for me.

Smooth

Surfers on surf boards can surf a glassy wave because surfboards are fast and aerodynamic. They have very little drag. So the weight of the surfer and board down the wave will keep them in it. But for R1 there is a lot of drag on the boat that will pull the boat over the glassy wave. Every molecule of water underneath the boat is shearing against the boat and pulling it downstream. But any presence of whitewater at the top of a wave is the start of a pile but more importantly it indicates that the water underneath that white is either stationary (not moving downstream) or is actually moving down the wave. This water meets the incoming glassy water in an explosive collision where you see whitewater. But the take home point is that under that whitewater is water that is actually moving upstream and is gripping the boat and shearing and trying to "pull" it upstream. So a good analogy would be a glassy wave is a constant speed treadmill more or less. And a breaking wave is two treadmills that are opposing each other. But the take home point. Is that for small breaking waves. It is not necessarily the the white pile that is doing the stopping of the boat. I would say that it is the grippy water that is moving upstream that stops the boats momentum so quickly. Thinking about it. Even for massive wave holes that have a huge white pile. That is just an indication that behind that curtain of white is literally a downward waterfall. So when boating into that is going to bring the boat to a dead stop. Or when trying to paddle over a sticky hole would be like paddling up and over a vertical treadmill going the opposite direction. Thanks for the comment. I like thinking of this stuff! Especially when encountering small holes. I always think, "That doesn't look like much." and then get instantly flipped and am left wondering why?

It is a 10 foot NRS urethane boat but they discontinued it. It was the Osprey & Revolution series Urethane boats circa 2012

You will be good to go! This KZfaqr does nothing but R1-ing in 9.5 Saturn. It doesn't have much rocker. But I flip all the time because my boat has too much rocker. So it is probably a great stable boat! If I ever saw one come up on craigslist I would buy one for myself! Have Fun!!

HELL YEAH!

Nice! I had to give on up skateboarding due to back pain. My videos only go to year 4. Happy Skating!!!

@@r1-ing thx man and thx for sharing your progress

Spare Air

I haven't. I am trying to make a bucket list trip out to the Gauley for Gauley Season and if I have the time and energy would want to hit the Ocoee before that if it is still running!

@@r1-ing it's really awesome bro

Hey! I am glad your flipping! Good to hear your keeping that ratio high. Keep crushing it! I enjoy your runs! EPIC!

@@r1-ing thanks man!

Yes. There is plenty of time just hold onto your boat and wait out a rapid to get back in if you fall out. My advice is to paddle strong but be ok with "giving up" on your paddling to highside your IK by leaning way out over it. I use this technique a lot and even fall over and out of my raft on the highside but at least i am through the big wave and usually easily hanging on. Same for IK. Worst is to get dumped upriver into the trough for a quick flush. May not be able to hold onto your IK. And most all levels have fairly green lines to avoid taking hits you don't want to. You don't want to be too lacks because swimming 2 rapids in a row can cause flush drowning. But it is a really clean section of river. Feels like big class 4 with class 3 swims unless the cfs is juicing in the teens.

@@r1-ing Wonderful information! Appreciate the quick response as well. I will give it a whirl! Safe paddling to you!