Outrigger canoeing is an exhilarating sport that promotes fitness, teamwork and a healthy outdoor lifestyle, attracting recreational and competitive paddlers alike. Many of its members are also members of the Geelong Canoe Club. For information on activities in this discipline take a look at the Outrigger Club website. Dragon boats are the basis of the team paddling sport of dragon boat racing an amateur watersport which has its roots in an ancient folk ritual of contending villagers held over the past years throughout southern China.
The Juggernauts are members of Dragons Abreast Australia and welcome breast cancer survivors and supporters. For information on activities in this discipline take a look at the club Facebook page , the Geelong Dragon Boat Club website , or email the Geelong Juggernauts.
Canoe polo Canoe Polo is an exciting team event played on 35m x 23m pitches set up in swimming pools or on flat stretches of water. Sprint Canoe Sprint Racing is one of the best-known competitive canoeing disciplines in Australia. Canoe Sprint Racing is all about speed on flat water over distances of metres, metres and metres For information on activities in this discipline take a look at the club Facebook page. Recreation Recreational canoeing is simply paddling that is not competition based.
Multisport Multisport is an emerging discipline that involves the running, road cycling, mountain biking, swimming and paddling. Schools and Scouts Many Schools in the Geelong area have canoeing and kayaking in the curriculum which provides an excellent opportunity for school children to travel along the Barwon River and see nature.
Paracanoe kayak events only made its Paralympic debut at Rio with six medal events. See the ICF website. Examples include:. Parakayak The kayak is propelled by a double-blade paddle and has a rudder. The same kayak paddles that are used for sprint kayak are used for parakayak. Here is another example of a kayak paddle, from Jantex.
Pamela Boteler, President info womencanintl. Sprint Canoe. Slalom Canoe. Sprint Kayak. Slalom Kayak. Sprint, or Flatwater, racing is one of the oldest Olympic sports.
It is a classic test and combination of speed, explosive power, endurance, and balance. The basics of sprint racing are simple: fastest paddler who stays in their lane, upright, wins.
The Sprint discipline utilizes two classes of boats: canoe and kayak. Each is considered its own sub-discipline. There are currently 12 flatwater sprint events on the Olympic Program. For Tokyo , Olympic distances are m, m and m for men, and m and m for women, in one, two and four person kayaks. Kayaking requires the paddler to sit on a seat in a boat that has an almost entirely closed deck, however, there is enough of an opening for the paddler to sit in the kayak, on a seat with knees visible.
The aim of a sprint competition is for paddlers to race each other in their respective lanes, over a clearly defined straight and unobstructed buoyed course, in the shortest possible time. Athletes use a single-blade, straight-shaft paddle with a T-grip at the top of the shaft.
Slalom, or Whitewater, racing is like downhill skiing, only athletes navigate through gates in rough, splashy, whitewater rapids. Slalom racing uses two types of boats, which are the two Olympic sub-disciplines: canoe and kayak.
Kayakers use a double-blade paddle with a bent shaft. If so you might want to check out whitewater kayaking. At the start of the year we teach all of our beginners the basic strokes in the pool, we then move to the river Lee where we have manageable rapids to teach moving water skills. Once you have some moving water experience we move on to proper whitewater rivers all over the country and even abroad. Our local stomping ground is the Upper Bandon river just outside Dunmanway.
This is where we run the majority of our river trips and the fabled whitewater team trials for varsities. Of course as with the other disciplines there is also a competitive side to whitewater kayaking. There are races run all around the country on rivers such as the Flesk, the Clare Glens, Buncrana, Ennistymon and many many more.
The biggest event on the whitewater calendar is Galwayfest which is held in March every year. We always have a few of our members travel up to take on some of the best whitewater and freestyle kayakers in the country, even winning a few medals along the way.
If you want to try whitewater kayaking come along to our Friday river sessions and keep an eye on the Facebook page for any river trips which will happen regularly throughout the year. University College Cork. Sport at University College Cork. UCC Canoe Club.
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