Kayak: A Manual of Technique
- Book Review,
by William Nealy
Amazon.com
Anyone who kayaks--or would like to--will get a laugh out of Kayak: The Animated Manual of Intermediate and Advanced Whitewater Technique. Author William Nealy draws on his 12 years of whitewater experience to combine instruction and kayaking philosophies with his offbeat sense of humor. Through animated diagrams, Nealy explains intermediate paddling techniques, different types of Eskimo rolls, river rescue, and running a river at flood stage. The chapter on hydrotypography ("the art of using watery features to your maximum advantage") provides an excellent tutorial on river dynamics. The book's animated style is especially useful for illustrating the dynamics of eddies, ledges, holes, and other river features. Despite the humor, safety is Nealy's primary message in Kayak.
Les Bechdel, co-author, River Rescue
"Nealy has laid the foundation for tomorrows experts. Kayak finally fills a serious void in whitewater literature."
Charlie Walbridge
"Kayak contains a great deal of material which, although known to experts, has never been described in printThe rescues information n particular is excellent."
Bunny Johns, Nantahala Outdoor Center
"Incorporates Nealys well-known humor with many excellent additions to whitewater knowledge."
Book Description
Veteran kayaker William Nealy shares his twelve years of whitewater experience in this unique intermediate and advanced instructional manual. Learn how to execute three types of rolls, how to read rapids, how to run rapids safely, and much more. In Kayak - The Animated Manual of Intermediate and Advanced Whitewater Technique, the emphasis is on practical survival paddling. Over 180 pages of animation show the reader everything he or she needs to know about paddling technique, river playing, body english, river rescue, and rapid hydrology, as well as countless other techniques.
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Anyone who kayaks--or would like to--will get a laugh out of Kayak: The Animated Manual of Intermediate and Advanced Whitewater Technique. Author William Nealy draws on his 12 years of whitewater experience to combine instruction and kayaking philosophies with his offbeat sense of humor. Through animated diagrams, Nealy explains intermediate paddling techniques, different types of Eskimo rolls, river rescue, and running a river at flood stage.
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Veteran kayaker William Nealy shares his twelve years of whitewater experience in this unique intermediate and advanced instructional manual. Learn how to execute three types of rolls, how to read rapids, how to run rapids safely, and much more. In Kayak - The Animated Manual of Intermediate and Advanced Whitewater Technique, the emphasis is on practical survival paddling. Over 180 pages of animation show the reader everything he or she needs to know about paddling technique, river playing, body english, river rescue, and rapid hydrology, as well as countless other techniques. (7 x 10, 184 pages, illustrations)
About the Author
Author/Illustrator William "Not-Bill" Nealy lives in the woods outside Chapel Hill, North Carolina with his editor and permanent girlfriend Holland "Dr. H" Wallace and an assortment of dogs, lizards, pigs, snakes, turtles and amphibians.
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