People have been using Kayaking thousands of years ago for almost all the essential functions in their lives. For example, Kayaking was the only source of war and transportation in past, so this is not a new concept in the modern world. But the name has been changed from Eskimos to Kayaking. In past Kayaking was very popular in northern Arctic regions, because these regions have more oceans and rivers. But there was a huge difference in the way Kayaking was done in past and nowadays. In past there was one hardwood which a person will module and design at home to make a boat for himself, sometimes a strange method was followed to make Kayaking tool that was using the skeleton of the whale to make kayak for kayaking. In addition to this, there were few other objects which were used for kayaking in past, but all were natural ways, and there were more chances of risk and life threatening accidents. If we try to find out the verbal meaning of Kayaking, we will come to know that verbal sense of Kayaking is “"hunter's boat." As the name, suggests it was used for the purpose of hunting in rivers and oceans for fishes and other creatures. For thousands of years, our ancestors have been using Kayaking as primary transportation and hunting source in their lives. They were used to go into oceans and forests to prey animals because in those time hunting was the only source of food for human being. By that time Europeans were not interested in Kayaking as they were enjoying real life, so they didn’t felt it necessary to go for hunting and get food for their families. But then in mid 18000s the English man showed interest in Kayaking and there comes the revolution in the Kayaking industry. After English man, French man also started to use Kayaking for the sports purpose, and it became popular in Europe. Then with the passage of time, there were few changes in the style and method of using Kayaking and methods kept changed with time. Adolf Anderle in 1931 is the first person in history who thought about the new way of making Kayak which will be more secure and light weight. He presented his modern style in the Berlin Olympics games which were held in 1936. This started a new era in kayaking industry in mid 19000s plastic and fiberglass Kayaks were invented. After French in U.S people started to use Kayaking as a game and then it became popular in the whole world until now Kayaking is one of the major games in almost all the countries of the world. Though with the passage of time Kayaking has been modernized, but still, there is room for improvement. As research has shown that even modern ways of kayaking which is called white water Kayaking has so many life threatening risks for the human, which needs to be addressed and new kayaking ways need to be introduced in the Kayaking area.
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If you are familiar with kayaking on local lake or river- then you will definitely know that how difficult it is to kayak on sea water. Sea is vaster in nature than that of lake or a river and this is also true in terms of depth of the water body. Not only that- the sea in general has more unpredictable weather pattern and also has way larger wave size. Therefore a lot of precaution has to be taken before deciding to kayak on the sea. This article will take a look at how to prepare for sea kayaking the effective way.
Preparation for sea kayaking:
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AuthorI am Josh 25-year-old mechanical engineer from Bismarck, North Dakota. I love sailing, kayaking and scuba diving. Archives
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