themadindian

That’s pretty impressive, when I took over, the banner stated the site was open to “all paddlers”. I changed it to “open canoes”, but...

Comparative activity levels Based on recent forum activity in late 2025, Canoetripping.net appears to have higher recent activity in...

The good news is I've been tripping for almost 35 years with a partially numb left foot. My sciatic pain used to go down the back of my...

Sadly this is my lowest mileage year in 6 years, just totaled my paddling from my garmin and it was 103 miles, I was getting worried I...

As close as I can come to answering your "constrained" question. I've several times been asked, why is it referred to as freestyle...

"Freestyle" is a broad term. It shouldn't matter if you're tripping, paddling twisty streams or whatever, the above statement should be...

As to "functional" being a relatively new term, it is, sort of. As I understand it, the early development of freestyle (originally...

Perhaps Marc Ornstein will chime in but for me the difference between functional freestyle and functional paddling is that when I'm...

In case anyone has any interest. Here are some photos of my SOF builds from this summer season

I knew that was going to come back to haunt me. In my defense, I was trying (and failed) to point out that you can get leverage from...

I take it you are asking about heeling from a centralized solo seat. I'll make some points, probably repeating what others have said...

tketcham has it right. Heel is one factor but equally important is pitch. Canoes steer, primarily from the stern. Pitching the bow down...

I don't think that a half inch of rocker difference will affect heeled maneuvers all that much with the Cirrus (2.5/2.0 inches)...

I unfortunately didn't have the camera running when we had gone back up it. It's too bad, there was some good moments 😄

This makes me feel like a movie star, you can see me paddle out of the frame in the first few seconds of the video! :ROFLMAO::LOL::ROFLMAO: