Focus your fears on the water moccasins surrounding you. They really are out to get you. Whereas drowning is a more merciful tragic death. You could stay home and watch tv, anon.
Quality sit on top kayak and practice hopping in it unassisted. Kayak in pairs or you're moronic. Good life jacket, be mindful of the weather. Try to avoid kayaking swamps in the morning or evening, almost every gator attack is a dumbass swimming where and when they shouldn't, dont be pussy and get out there.
Have you actually learned how to kyack?
There are core safety skills you should even be allowed to get into a kyack without having. >strong swimming skills
The water you're in might only be 10m abreast and 2m deep, but fast flowing water, your clothes and snags make it a very high risk environment. Riskier than open water. >turtle drills
You have to know how to recover from a turtle if your in/out/stuck inside a kyack. If you fail you could die, if you're scared to do it in a swimming pool you're nowhere near ready. You can drown in a swimming pool, kyacking in a swimming pool, there is no "safe" kyacking.
The problem is basically that even if you're with other people, it's very hard/ dangerous to extract a kyack pilot who's turtled. You might have 10 kyacks and 9 will be powerless if the tenth turtles. >fast water recovery
You need to know how to cross fast water, recover gear, extract a kyack, land navigate around fast water, how to get an injured person out of fast water.
I know people will think you can just go for a paddle and they I'm being pedantic, I'm not. c**ts die every year, statistically quiet a lot die compared to say... swimmers (if you exclude shallow water drowning)
Basically you should find an instructor, take a group course that covers emergency drills, and train your swimming. Stay away from waters that are unrated, and don't kyack alone at all, even in shallow water
By learning to swim Jamal.
get a sit-on-top that is unsinkable. You fall off, you just climb back on. Doesnt paddle as well as a sit-in but trade offs..
Get one with bulkheads or a sit on top
Don't paddle in a swamp
Pussy. Swamps are one of the most serene environments to paddle in.
Come to norf straya in the wet season and try it
wear a life jacket like anybody who isn't moronic?
You still have to swim the kayak to a shore to dump it and get back in. And the swamp puppies will nibble on your heels.
Get a buddy with another kayak and do a T rescue, you are boating with a buddy right?
Don't call me a pussy, homosexuals. I'm not the one afraid of swamps
people calling "sit-on-tops" kayaks is fricking hilarious
Losing the first toe is the worst, Anon. Just go down to the swamp and get in, feel around with your feet for big round moving rocks.
Focus your fears on the water moccasins surrounding you. They really are out to get you. Whereas drowning is a more merciful tragic death. You could stay home and watch tv, anon.
Quality sit on top kayak and practice hopping in it unassisted. Kayak in pairs or you're moronic. Good life jacket, be mindful of the weather. Try to avoid kayaking swamps in the morning or evening, almost every gator attack is a dumbass swimming where and when they shouldn't, dont be pussy and get out there.
First uh...know how to swim.
But if it makes you feel any better OP, I started with no instruction and still didn't fall off/sink mine.
SARAH
Get a skirt and learn to roll or get a sit on top.
Have you actually learned how to kyack?
There are core safety skills you should even be allowed to get into a kyack without having.
>strong swimming skills
The water you're in might only be 10m abreast and 2m deep, but fast flowing water, your clothes and snags make it a very high risk environment. Riskier than open water.
>turtle drills
You have to know how to recover from a turtle if your in/out/stuck inside a kyack. If you fail you could die, if you're scared to do it in a swimming pool you're nowhere near ready. You can drown in a swimming pool, kyacking in a swimming pool, there is no "safe" kyacking.
The problem is basically that even if you're with other people, it's very hard/ dangerous to extract a kyack pilot who's turtled. You might have 10 kyacks and 9 will be powerless if the tenth turtles.
>fast water recovery
You need to know how to cross fast water, recover gear, extract a kyack, land navigate around fast water, how to get an injured person out of fast water.
I know people will think you can just go for a paddle and they I'm being pedantic, I'm not. c**ts die every year, statistically quiet a lot die compared to say... swimmers (if you exclude shallow water drowning)
Cont.
Basically you should find an instructor, take a group course that covers emergency drills, and train your swimming. Stay away from waters that are unrated, and don't kyack alone at all, even in shallow water
do you like bamboo?
By learning how to paddle properly, take some classes, there are tons of paddling skills to learn