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Yes. First time trying a surf kayak, so took me a bit time to get used to it. Very different than a sea kayak

Chesapeake Light Craft model Matunuck

@@JennyZhang42 neat. A wood kayak.

@@beingaware8542 Yes, a friend built it himself, and lend it to me

Thanks for the comment. I think it makes sense to me. Lean, edge should work together. Previously when I think about edging, it's always lifting upstream knee, but I never think about I could lean my body downstream (unless surfing on river waves). I applied what you suggested on the river last weekend, I definitely felt some difference.. I somehow flipped downstream once. I think I still need to fine-tune how much I lean downstream

Yes, it's LOW flow

I don’t think it was a bracing issue-well, maybe partially. The main cause was an edging failure; I didn’t lift or maintain my upstream knee. In these capsized runs, I often entered the waterfalls at the wrong places or angles (usually off-center or descending at an angle rather than straight down). As a result, water piled up on one side of my boat, causing me to flip. Yes, I didn’t brace properly. I remember successfully bracing on a fall in August, but not during this trip. Anyway, these are videos of rolls, so any successful attempts where I avoided capsizing won’t be included! Thanks for the comment!

Just watched my video again after reading your comment. I think most of the time when capsized in this video, my paddle was in the correct side of my boat to brace, so maybe half of the time I did brace / add a paddle stroke on that side. But it didn't work. Half of the time, I just directly went to the roll setup position without attempting to brace or paddle stroke. I know I need to work on stay upright, or recovery brace instead of relying too much on my roll. Since it's always safer and quicker to recover without a roll.

I went to sea kayak surfing yesterday, and used my high brace 5-10 times, did 3 rolls when I didn't want to give up to surf for bracing... I think on the river, it requires much faster reaction to the water. Sea kayak surfing is a bit more predictable and easier to react.

Really interesting about the upstream knee. Now I went back and watched again! Lol. Yes, the river caught the edge sometimes. Good insight. I am looking for the camera to rapidly tilt in the direction of a brace, as its on your helmet, and saw it stay quite level, and i was looking for the falling side blade to whip up into the air and try to get flat on the water before you went under, but it seems that the blade often sinks down in a vertical postion and your head level, when the river catches your edge. But it happens so quickly. Maybe there is no time. You have a great roll and you also have a great feel for the kayak because you know whats up! Makes me want to kayak tomorrow! Im on the East coast though, and no great river like the Kern near me, well the Penobscott but thats class 5 i think...great rolls. Really liked your roll on Powerful Possum. And yes they do happen really fast.

​@@beingaware8542 You're right, my blade was often vertical and buried in the water already. So I probably was trying to do one more stroke on that side instead of lift the blade higher on the surface of the water! I will definitely keep it in mind next time

YES. I missed the eddy both times I ran this rapids. That's why I ended up in the wrong place hitting the goalpost rock

I don’t . I was very active practicing roll back in 2020, 2021, and learned butterfly and hand rolls. After that I haven’t been able to invest time on purely rolling exploration. In 2023 and 2024 I spent more time on rough ocean, surfing, rock gardening and whiter water kayaking. Then I use my rolls more in real situations instead of pure fun… right now I want to learn storm roll and back deck rolls, but haven’t been able to carve time for it yet

@@JennyZhang42 wow you are nice and busy doing a lot. I like long sea kayak ocean trips as well. Mostly for a a week, but some 3 weeks plus. I have some free time by a lake at the moment. I've just got the storm roll, and I love it. It's so fast, and when your up your allready to paddle. Anyhow, if you get time and try it I think you will like it for both whitewater and suring and touring. Take care! Great channel!

@@beingaware8542 Thanks!

Thanks! Good eyes. I learned my left side roll as sweep roll, so yes, I didn't have a strong hip snap on the left side. I will work on it.

Additionally, did you have to let them know advance that you were bringing a kayak, or could you just stow it? The boat website also says no items heavier than 45 lbs

@@alisonkorn5651 Yes, you need to call them and reserve a kayak spot. There is no weight limitation on a kayak.

You need to check out my other videos about sea caves in Santa Cruz Island, those are more impressive than this one

YES!! Unloading 4 kayaks took 20-30 minutes, loading them up at the end of the day take another 30 minutes!!

Thank you for the kind comment!

We did chamise at 250 cfs due to the flow study, it was not natural flow. The limestone was natural flow. Yes, it was very very shallow... I did swim once in my second lap of chamise and once in limestone run, but I didn't manage to capture both on my camera

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Thank you!

Using brace to avoid capsize is even better than combat rolls!

@JennyZhang42 Yes, but I still want that mental confidence that I can nail rolls in current. Agree that bracing is better though.

@@michaelcarter3149 I think there are two parts for successful combats rolls. 1. working on solid rolls 2. mental confidence and commitment to roll. Set up a rule, like try 3 rolls before giving up. I sometimes first attempt failed and rolled up on the second attempt.

@JennyZhang42 ya I completely agree. I can do them, I just need to get comfortable underwater again. It's always when you rush that it will fail.

Why isn’t preserving natural resources a justified reason for restricting access to caves? And also, many caves with gates are open to the public, if you know where to look or who to contact. Many caves in Lincoln National Forest are open to the public as long as you have a permit; some of these include Sitting Bull Falls Cave, Cottonwood Cave, and Hell Below Cave. Similarly, nearby Carlsbad Caverns National Park has 8 backcountry caves open to permit visitation; most of these aren’t even gated. Keep in mind, many of these caves you speak of that have been closed to the public have been closed for specific reasons; installing gates takes time and money, so preemptively building a gate in the entrance to a cave doesn’t make much sense. Many of these caves have suffered from extensive vandalism, contain valuable archeological/paleontological resources, or harbor endangered species.

@@maxduncan9985 Is Parks Ranch Cave (the one in your video) still open to the public as it was when I was there, or have they gated it off?

@@kenthompson5723 It’s still open to the public without reservation; no gates have been installed.

@@kenthompson5723 We took photos of all the entrances we found in this cave systems, see album below photos.app.goo.gl/z9yu2cqK7cB1StEA9

Happy to hear it’s helpful. It’s still open to public.

Thank you!

Last time I managed to turn my tempest 165 kayak here (in May), although it was not easy. So I thought I could do it this time in Valley Avocet kayak. That’s why I kept trying to turn it until I capsized. Later back paddling out was easier than I thought (and only took 30 seconds)

I think the difference was the tide. Last time we entered was low tide (1ft maybe), this time is 3.5 ft tide.