Canoe Drill: Flatwater Slalom

The following flatwater slalom drills are putting all of your previously learned skills to the test.
The basis for these drills was inspiration I grabbed from a slalom training website from Davey and Jennifer Hearn: http://www.daveyhearn.com/Whitewater%20Racing/Events%20by%20Season/Pool%20Slalom/pool_course.htm

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The goals, focus points and tests are the same for all these slalom drills. Set up the environment and have fun.

Goals:

• These drills are simply good fun

• Combine the previous trained strokes

Focus points for this drill:

• Clean strokes

• tilt, no body lean

Tests:

• Go for good speed

• What's the minimum of strokes you need to do this slalom?

• Can you do these slaloms backwards?

• What's your stroke count when you do it backwards

Exercise: Biderectional slalom

You can run this slalom in 2 directions. Either you start top right (as in the image), or top left, both facing down. This changes the turns you need.

Exercise: Tight turns versus wide turns

Exercise: Quick turns without loosing speed

Switch between inside tilt, outside tilt, try carving, pitch, bow corrections, stern corrections. Get a feeling for what works for you and your boat.

As a final test, you can combine the above exercise to 1 exercise. Run the figures after each other as 1 big exercise!