Kayaking with Eric Jackson: Strokes and Concepts

By Eric Jackson

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: RowmanLittlefield
• Release date: Jun 1, 2017
• ISBN: 9780811765602

Eric Jackson

Eric Jackson was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He is a graduate in Telecommunications from Sacred Heart University in Puerto Rico. He was a news writer for Channel 24, an all-news television station in San Juan. He is a former Managing Editor of the Puerto Rico Official Industrial Directory. Currently, he is an Editor of New York City Voices: A Consumer Journal for Mental Health Advocacy, and is the Editor of the Rainbow Heights Journal, the literary magazine of Rainbow Heights Club in Brooklyn. He lives in New York City.

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