Moving sideways

The basic correction strokes allow you to move sideways. There are more efficient strokes to make you move sideways.

The setup for all of these strokes will be the same, setup 2 buoys, and move parallel from the one to the other. The strokes you use will vary though.

 Exercise: Moving sideways

Use following combinations to move the canoe sideways

• Draw

• Pry

• Stern pry – cross bow draw combinations

  

• Stern draw – bow draw combinations

• sculling draw

• sculling pry

Goals:

• Training so you develop a repertoire of strokes to move sideways

• Training on each variation

Focus points for this drill:

• Vertical paddle, for all strokes!

• Work on a nice and long range of motion for sculling

Tests:

• Which variation works best for you on flatwater?

• which variation causes the least drift?