The closest thing I’ve ever done to Kayak Fu would be boatball, which I think I’ve discussed here.
It involves a water polo ball, a couple of floats for goals, and a lot of people with whitewater kayaks who would rather be on a river with a gradient, but alas, we live in Memphis, and the rivers here don’t ‘do’ rapids. We put a lot of long miles on our vehicles, to get to the whitewater from Memphis… but you make your own whitewater in boatball.
Boatball is a sort of sandlot version of kayak polo, I think. We had a kayak polo team visit one day and bring actual goals and things and they knew rules and had skills. It was all very exciting but it was like the neighborhood kids playing rough-house style football being visited by the local pro team. Just not the same game.
One of the few rules we have is “when hands go in for the ball, paddles come out.” So I don’t think anyone has lost digits over the years. Good rule.
One of the non-rules is “don’t grab anybody’s loops” You don’t have to have that rule, you just have to know that if you just have to grab another person’s boat and haul back on the grab-loop, your hand is fair game, depending on the disposition of the other player and the speed of his paddle blade.
Man, that lady has some *serious* abs. She really knows how to use someone else’s head.
The only thing more impressive is if she could to the same thing with a sit-on kayak.
Just got to lock the feet to the sides really solid.
Well that escalated quickly. A good visual beats added rules any day.
Where do you float? Ocoee, flint river?
“Float.” That’s a neat word. We used to float the Buffalo (The Tennessee one, not the good one) and the Spring and the Eleven Point… but never used ‘float’ for the Ocoee or the New or Gauley. We always said “Paddle” for rivers once we got to that kind of trip. Most of the Grand Canyon run was drifting and floating along, but I never thought of the old term while we were out there.
either the water or the kayak is very dense TO DO THAT WITHOUT DROWNING!
I think that Greg had been trying so hard to come up with new Fu moves, he ended up disqualifying himself.