Love this book! Make river reading and ww kayaking way more understandable for beginners!

Has good information.

Love the text (very humorous) and the pictures. I found the book to be very helpful as I progress in my kayaking abilities. I highly recommend this book.

Hilarious and instructive at the same time.

Great info presented in an entertaining way. Sums up the culture of white water paddling as well. I have bought copies for friends over the years. Every white water paddler should have this.

In no way does this book replace actual quality instruction on the river with a qualified instructor, but it does provide a useful complement to that in person instruction. Like the 3 star review, this book is a little too right brained for my taste, but some of the illustrations are helpful. It does not focus so much on basic strokes and concepts as much as on things you may encounter on the river. Some of the explanations are detailed and useful, but others are confusing and unhelpful. But here's the thing, no one book on whitewater kayaking is going to give you everything you need and no book will ever replace the experience of learning from a quality instructor on the river who can see what you're doing and what's right and wrong with it. Given that, this is a valuable resource that complements that on the water instruction and can be particularly useful to paddlers who seek visual illustrations of whitewater.

I had the original book as a kid and loved it. Great book, hilarious! My family still says 34;say egg-mcmuffin!34; If you have read the book, you know exactly what I mean. I am teaching my wife to boat now, and am buying the updated version. I plan to get this for my nephew for his birthday too. A must for getting a young paddler through the winter without going nuts!