Balancing Clinic "jordan lake"

"Keeping balance requires integration of inputs from multiple senses (equilibrioception (from the vestibular system), vision, and perception of pressure and proprioception from the somatosensory system) with the motor system responsible for muscle actions. The senses must detect the change of the body position with respect to the base (whether the body moves or the base moves). The limit of stability of an individual standing quietly upright is defined as the amount of postural sway at which the balance is lost and the corrective actions are required. "

Balancing Clinic

Instructors: Dawn and Ginger

Let’s work on balancing, edging, light bracing and supportive stokes, and relaxing in our seemingly tippy kayaks.

Do you feel a bit tippy and unstable in your kayak, kind of wobbly? Do you always point your
nose into a boat wake for fear you’ll lose your balance and flip.
Do you flip over?
This clinic is designed to help those who are having difficulty with balance, stability, and their comfort level on flat water in wind chop and boat wakes.

Braces and support strokes we’ll be learning and practicing include low brace, sculling, supportive forward and reverse strokes, supportive forward and reverse sweep strokes, and the low brace turning stroke.

Be prepared to get wet. A great exercise we’ll use in this class is paddling with a partially flooded
cockpit; this will help us to simulate the instability you normally have in rougher conditions requiring balancing and bracing. And we’ll probably get in some rescue practice too.