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Welcome To KayakQuixotica.com. Quix is simply a personal website of someone who kayaks. Every one of us who gets into sea kayaking crosses through many of the same experiences; learning new skills, exploring our local environments, traveling, shopping for decent gear and sometimes just putting the kayak away and thinking about something completely different. That’s what Quix is all about. There’s something new all the time. I’m glad you stopped by and I hope you find something interesting!
Quix Strokes
Here are some quick links to previous posts about specific skills and strokes for folks just learning or looking for some tips to improve.. It’s not like I have all the answers, but maybe I’ll have a couple. 
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Recoveries - Fri, 20 Aug 2010
We're almost done with the Low Impact Rolling Series. I hope you've gained something from it. Remember, it's not important that you do everything the way I do it. In time everyone finds their own way. But my hope is that through this series you may have found a tip or technique that has helped either firm up your roll or to make it easier and more efficient. I also hope that you'll take what you've pulled from this and share it freely. Today we move on to "recoveries". The bit where you get the kayak back under your bum. I'm going to break this down into two sorts of rolls.. A standard "C2C, Sweep" roll recovery and a layback recovery.
Bad Example - Thu, 19 Aug 2010
As coaches,we're all learning. Coaches are not "experts" and they are not "Gurus". Coaches are simply folks who help you travel along the same path they've traveled themselves. When it comes to learning, coaches have one advantage in that we regularly get to watch others perform great skill work, and we also get to watch people blow things in the most atrocious ways! Both are great opportunities for learning. In this exercise I want you to be the coach. Your rolling student is doing everything wrong...
