Video: Random Freestyle Maneuver Challenge with Mark Maier and Lennart Bal

[Glenn MacGrady]

I hope posting this video is okay with our member @dutchlennart. After all, he must have consented to it's being posted on YouTube nine years ago.

The idea behind this video is a contest between two of the best known freestyle canoeists in Europe, Mark Maier and Lennart Bal. It's an unusual contest. The narrator (whose name I don't know) calls out random freestyle maneuvers, which both paddlers must immediately perform. After each maneuver, a fourth person judges who did it best. The contest goes through several maneuvers, and then the scores are totaled up.

In my New Jersey Pine Barrens Trip a few weeks ago with seven U.S. freestyle instructors, I told them about this contest and they all thought it was a very interesting concept. Maybe they'll adopt it.

In any event, here it is:

The prize t-shirts say: "Actually, the tangent as a solo maneuver does exist". Is that so?

 

[dutchlennart]

The inventor of this challenge is Sebastian Stetter. He called out the manoeuvres as well. He is one of the best known freestyle instructors i. Europe. Selling arguably the best kneeling mats of the planet. And building the lake constance felicity. A briljant freestyle canoe. Easily the easiest composite canoe to freestyle in. We both are paddling one i the video.

It was fun. Stull have the t shirt

There is no reason why i should not like it if this video is mentioned/ shared here.

I can not see a reason why a tangent should not be in de freestyle. If there is an axle and a post . Why should there not be a wegde and a tangent.

Only reason might be that it is a pita to get the sweetspot for the placement right.

Doing a Christie with an offside edge is to me something is do not get.

 

[Glenn MacGrady]

I can not see a reason why a tangent should not be in de freestyle. If there is an axle and a post . Why should there not be a wegde and a tangent.

I had not heard of a "tangent" until I saw this video. I subsequently learned it is primarily a tandem maneuver, but I had never really heard of it in that context either until recently. Perhaps someone could explain what a tangent turn is when paddling tandem and when paddling solo. Maybe there are videos, too.

 

[Erica]

I can’t watch freestyle without thinking of alligators.

It took more than two weeks in Québec before I stopped worrying about gators in the water. It just becomes automatic.

That said, it was a fun video to watch. What class and grace on the water.

 

[dutchlennart]

The short expliation is :
If you compare the post and axle. The big difference is the on or offside egde.

So why is there no manouvre next to the wegde with a offside edge.

That question accured 1 day when i was messing around. I started experimenting. When I started talking to some people. They told me that in tandem that manouvre is the tangent..
This was a topic on kringelfieber the spring before this video was made.

If you look to the video from me in the blue mistral the first manouvre before the music starts is a tangent.

Hopefully i can make a video of this.
Similar to the ones marc made of all the manouvre a number of years back.