Fabulous information thanks for making & sharing 🎉

Very useful for me as a beginner. It lets me assess what I can cope with so that I can better inform paddle leaders. Well done, many thanks!!

Thanks for the info! Exactly what I was looking for and entertaining as well!

Good idea, and a good resource. I feel though that there was a big jump from State 2 to State 3 and not much of a jump from State 3 to State 4. There seemed almost as many white horses in State 3 as there was in State 4, except there was a slightly larger swell. State 3 looked more like a 3.5 to be fair.

very useful. thank you

Thanks excellent video series. I have them all and book.

Thanks and looks like a good bit of kit.

Very good video! Thank you!

good vid to give people a rough guide to what to expect.. like others have said it also depends on other factors like wind, sea bed, time between waves, currents etc... also like others have said i would ratyher paddle the 4 than the 3 in your vid.. should of filmed the same area so the seabed would be same in all sea states sandy areas will have different state to a rocky area etc i live in plymouth so the sound has lots of different sea states with in the areas, this is in a force 3, as you will see in the vid below the sea states changed due to the areas passed over, the sea states according to your vid was 1-2, 3 rocky area, then flattened again too 1 in a rock and sandy bay, this was all in a 2 mile stretch of water.. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gqHHlnx3dt9lq7s

Ditch the LOUD music!

This is just brilliant! Thank you for making this video well done.

Thank you, that's very useful. Bookmarked for reference. Direction of travel in relation to swells and choppiness also mitigate or magnify the effects. having some clips a bit shorter would be helpful.

I like that you show it in something other than flat water. Anything to add about quick release when contact towing?

Video is to long, I don't have time to finish watching

It's great to attempt to put numbers to conditions but what I see here is a little misleading and incomplete. Level 3 in this video has small waves that are cresting and the seas are quite confused (multiple waves from different directions.) These push your boat around keeping you from travelling straight. Level four has slightly bigger swell but are simple rollers from one direction, a much simpler condition to paddle, yet a higher number. What really determines doable paddling conditions is the beach break you will be entering the ocean from in the first place, and landing. Being out in the water is great, but can you actually get there? What does the shoreline look like-rocks distributed in the off shore, gravel/sand beach or rocky cliffs. As kross mentioned frequency is very important. It can make or break getting off the beach. The swell may be medium height but could develop into monster sized waves at the beach. Nordkapps are wonderful sea kayaks...

This classification, as described in the video, seems to only consider wave/swell height, and that's just half of the story. The other is wave/swell interval. A 6-footer (2 meters) at 15 seconds is hardly noticeable. A 3-footer (1 meter) at 4 seconds is choppy as hell. If this system can't allow for that, it is not very useful.

Thank you! this is EXACTLY the video I was looking for.

I wonder if he knows that the Queen has been using him.

Has anyone read about the sweetener they use in sis go? I used the SIS GO then I read on the sachet it containers the artificial sweetener Acesulfame K . I Googled this and it came up as one of the most dangerous sweeteners ! After reading about this I will not be using SIS GO .

Have bought and watched this DVD over and over. Clear description of rescue skills. Great videos of St Kilda. One day!

Very useful Calum thanks.

Good job, very useful thanks

I have his first two videos and they are excellent! I was also fortunate enough to gotten my Level 4 ACA Open Water instructor certification from Gordon in Charleston, South Carolina. He is truly a great coach! I am definitely getting this video.

Volume 1 and 2 are great. I'm pretty sure 3 is too.

Thank you very much for making this series. It is proving useful

Well done-thank you!

Hi N - I have a few cycling events this summer (La Marmotte and Raid Pyrenean hopefully) so trying my best. Hope things are good for you too. S

Hi S, Excellent Vid. I only wish we'd known all this back in the days of the Heb and team TGO. You're clearly in great shape at the moment, are you training for anything in particular. N

nicely done!

Just saw 30 of these amazing creatures off Baugh, Tiree. I don't think I'd have the courage to go anywhere near. I loved the shot of the gaping maw under the sea.

werent u scared?

Aye, Brother!

Congratulations! Epic adventure.