Essential Tricks - NiftyTricks Kayak

Dictionary

Bow - Front of a kayak

C.F.S. - Cubic Feet per Second - a way to measure river flow

Cockpit - The opening for you in your kayak

Eddy - calm water behind an obstuction

Eddy Hop - Move from one eddy to the next

Gnar Gnar - Continous class V water

Grab Loop - Your line for getting out of your kayak

Hair Boating - Boating the crazy stuff

Hero Route - The hardest path down the river

Implosion Bar - Rigid support to keep your spray skirt on

Low Head Dam - Man-made, bad news feature

Paddle Catcher - A flat water trick involving rolling and paddle...

Pearl - When the bow or stern dives underwater

Pour Over - River feature from a partially submerged...

Put-In - Where the adventure starts

Rand - The outer stretchy material of a spray skirt

Scout - To check out a rapid

Shuttle Bunny - Female shuttle driver

Shuttle Monkey - Male shuttle driver

Sieve - Rocks creating an impassible path

Sneak - Taking the easiest way down

Spray Skirt - Equipment used to seal your lower body in the kayak

Stern - Back of a kayak

Stout - Something great

Strainer - An obstruction tha only allows water through

Take-Out - Where the river trip ends

Tunnel - The material around your waste that interfaces

Window Shade - Being rolled in a hole by catching the upstream...