Kayaking With Eric Jackson

From a four-time world-champion freestyle kayaker comes the definitive guide to one of whitewater kayaking's most fundamental techniques: the kayak roll. Learn how to enjoy kayaking safely and improve your skills with confidence.

World-champion kayaker teaches basic paddling strokes and concepts Four-time world champion kayaker, Eric Jackson teaches basic paddling strokes and concepts so that whatever water you choose to navigate you’ll be equipped to kayak efficiently and proficiently with control and speed. Each stroke instruction includes warm up and practice drills, advice on how to correct common mistakes, and lessons to improve essential maneuvers such as eddy turns and ferrying. Fully illustrated with step-by-step color photos, this resource is the key to improving your kayaking technique.

Sanctioned by the World Kayak Federation.

A complete guide to playboating technique and training by the most exciting paddler on the rodeo circuit and one of the best freestylers in the world. Eric Jackson has been dazzling crowds with his power and creativity since winning the Gold Medal at the 1993 World Freestyle Championships. This second book in his popular series demonstrates the essential components of more than 30 rodeo moves for waves, holes, rocks, eddylines, and flatwater. Action sequences by award-winning photographer Skip Brown freeze the key strokes and boat positions, and Jackson's concise, detailed text proves he's a real student of the sport.

Yoga for Paddling is a visual, instructional guide designed to walk readers through 30 -35 yoga poses that are effective in stretching the muscles that paddlers use most, and strengthening the muscles that they use least. The book includes chapters on anatomy and alignment principles specific to the movements of paddling for kayakers, canoeists, and SUPers, and includes tips on proper paddling technique, performance focus, relaxation, and short stories about paddling injuries healed via yoga. One to three photos demonstrate each pose, with clear, concise text on how to get into and hold the poses

Keep Australia on Your Left is a story of friendship forged--and sustained--under demanding circumstances. It is also the personal portrait of Eric Stiller's journey around a continent...and into himself. "You mad bastards. You mad bloody bastards." The challenge? Paddle a kayak around Australia. As Eric Stiller and Tony Brown would discover, the attempt would be a fascinating, frustrating, maddening, and at times hilarious crawl around what many consider the most beautiful but treacherous coastline in the world. Swamped by high waves and rain, hampered by faulty technology, blown off course, baked by a broiling sun or chilled by sub-zero temperatures, battling loneliness and exhaustion--and sometimes each other--it would be the most demanding emotional and physical challenge either had ever attempted. In short, it was the adventure of a lifetime! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

What makes travel special? Perhaps the chill realization that a polar bear's eyes are fixed on you. Maybe it is the chance meeting with a man who buries sharks in a beach, only to dig them up months later, not out of morbid curiosity, but for food. Perhaps it is the undulating wing-beat of a dark shell-less gastropod in the canal of a 17th Century French sea port, or the criminal history of a rusting ship with a tree growing from its hold.Encounters in a Kayak brings the reader along on the magical experiences that surround sea kayaking. It’s about the animals, people, and special places around the globe that have grabbed the attention of renowned kayaker and writer Nigel Foster. His irrepressible curiosity drives him to tease out the unexpected stories hidden behind his subjects. These nuggets from around the world are bound together by water and a centuries-old form of sea travel: kayak. The result is a book of broad appeal for those interested in kayaking, traveling, and adventure.