I really enjoy watching your videos. The canyons and gorges are dreamy. From a viewer's perspective, I like how your group eddies/peels out. It makes it a much more interesting video than just watching clips that are POV and forward facing. Everybody gets a shot at some screen time and that makes it more fun for the viewer and the boaters coming back to watch your vids. I try to encourage other packrafters I boat with to eddy out even if it isn’t necessarily; it is just good practice. Yet it rarely happens ahahahahaha! From a safety perspective it should also be encouraged. The safety y’all are setting up is also something that should be recognized and encouraged for other viewers and boaters. I recently did a lap down a river in Colorado (US) and it had far more gradient than we typically see in Arizona; something like 70 feet per mile (what is that - 13 meters per kilometer) with very little eddies, and I rarely saw people even turning their heads around to make sure everybody was okay. Paddle on!!!
Thanks for this great feedback and your work in teaching and helping people to improve their Packrafting skills. I think if we all keep practicing and improve the general paddling level in packrafting, we will earn a lot more acceptance from the kayak community!
I really enjoy watching your videos. The canyons and gorges are dreamy. From a viewer's perspective, I like how your group eddies/peels out. It makes it a much more interesting video than just watching clips that are POV and forward facing. Everybody gets a shot at some screen time and that makes it more fun for the viewer and the boaters coming back to watch your vids. I try to encourage other packrafters I boat with to eddy out even if it isn’t necessarily; it is just good practice. Yet it rarely happens ahahahahaha!
From a safety perspective it should also be encouraged. The safety y’all are setting up is also something that should be recognized and encouraged for other viewers and boaters. I recently did a lap down a river in Colorado (US) and it had far more gradient than we typically see in Arizona; something like 70 feet per mile (what is that - 13 meters per kilometer) with very little eddies, and I rarely saw people even turning their heads around to make sure everybody was okay.
Paddle on!!!
Thanks for this great feedback and your work in teaching and helping people to improve their Packrafting skills. I think if we all keep practicing and improve the general paddling level in packrafting, we will earn a lot more acceptance from the kayak community!