The perfect holiday gift: how to be a paddling "pro" in just 90 minutes!

While looking through paddling books at Amazon, came across this gem: “How to Paddle a Kayak: The 90 Minute Guide to Master Kayaking and Learn to Paddle Like a Pro.”

Excited to learn how to kayak out on the open water? Want to read weather conditions, assess danger, and manage currents without costly classes or hours of instruction?

All that in 90 minutes and without getting wet! :o

Maybe I should buy it? I’ve spent lots of hours in the cockpit but still don’t paddle like a pro and always get something wet.

https://www.amazon.com/How-Paddle-Kayak-Minute-Kayaking/dp/1545311463/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

Think of all the time many of us have “wasted” over the past couple of years.

@Sparky961 said:
Think of all the time many of us have “wasted” over the past couple of years.

Not to mention the travel, lodging, meal and registration costs for symposiums/classes.

You’ld be wasting a lot of time…
I watched a 15 min. video on YouTube and learned it all…

I got in to it with an Inuit shaman,
(though I thought it strange that his name was Dale).
With a Greenland stick he had me stir his raman.
He gave my fricassee de walrus grade pass/fail.

So I asked when he thought I’d learn my roll.
“It takes but a second…grand to come around,” said Dale.
“But a lifetime sculled away in madness is the toll,
if you expect to paddle out beyond narwhal.”

My forward paddle stroke improved immediately after I watched Brent Reitz video on the subject.

absolutely you should get it, and at the same time get this one:
http://www.cackletv.com/shop/usa/dvds/kayaking-the-aleutians-dvd.html
because, once you watch the 1st one, you will be fully prepared to do the 2nd one.

Just like Sheldon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnKoQbFXemE

The cover photo is even better than the title.

I remember when “This is the Sea” videos came out most of us had never seen kayaking in those conditions. Besides being vastly entertaining they encouraged us to up our game.
https://youtu.be/sHr7veG1dtk

yes indeed,
if only Max had seen the ‘90 minute guide’, he’d have been ok without Sarah’s help
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3WeXGmqYsE)

Yes, the cover photo. I hope he’s the “before I read the book” guy.

Don’t judge a book by it’s cover.

I could have taken many pictures of people and their boats that looked like pros. They absolutely were not.

My comment about about the cover was a crack. No PFD, no dressed for immersion and I barely glanced so probably missed more. On a book supposedly telling you how to assess risk.

Amazon now offers a “look inside” the book. From page two:

“Find out how others have pushed the limits of kayaking with specialized equipment and an almost fearless approach to the power of water. Is it not a sport for the real men after all?

Pass the barf bag please.

@Rookie said:
Amazon now offers a “look inside” the book. From page two:

“Find out how others have pushed the limits of kayaking with specialized equipment and an almost fearless approach to the power of water. Is it not a sport for the real men after all?

Pass the barf bag please.

I watched “Thelma and Louise” for the first time today. I always thought it was a chick movie. It’s enough to scare an old chauvinist… :o

“Find out how others have pushed the limits of kayaking with specialized equipment and an almost fearless approach to the power of water. Is it not a sport for the real men after all?

After all are we not real men,
making sport out of the sea,
till piton pitched in waves we bitch,
Castrata of Catastrophe!

Then how shall we push limits,
when big kayak we can’t get up,
and beached machismo be at Falsetto Key,
you might say ocean runneth over our cup.

“Are you not entertained?!!!” (he Crowed)

@Celia said:
My comment about about the cover was a crack. No PFD, no dressed for immersion and I barely glanced so probably missed more. On a book supposedly telling you how to assess risk.

Certainly true. I was just pointing out that the opposite doesn’t guarantee safety or success either.

Shiny high end boat, no clothing faded or dirty, can’t stop dropping brand names in casual conversation.

Warning flags for sure.

Yup. Most experienced folks I know may be sporting a new dry suit, or may have far more meticulous boat care habits than I do, but everything new and unmarred is not the norm.

As soon as a second book comes out telling me how to get through the first book in less than 90 minutes I’m on it. I’ve only got about 45 minutes to become an expert.