Baby Falls Teaching Clinic: "How To"

We had an excellent Baby Falls clinic that we orchestrated through the Georgia Canoeing Association this weekend. Myself and 2 other wonderful GCA instructors (Kerri and Kyle) led the class. This video is a bit different from my normal river trip videos in that I have included some of our discussion related to technique for running baby falls, boofing form, different types of boofs and how to do them properly, etc. If you want to skip to everyone just running the falls you can jump ahead to the 23:42 minute mark. But if you are curious how to run baby falls and some detailed discussion related to technique, you'll enjoy the first part.
What I love about these types of classes is everyone starts off a bit nervous and unsure but by the end they are eddy hopping the falls and some made significant progress on their technique and everyone gained a much greater comfort level on the falls. Congrats to all our participants! We had a few combat rolls at the bottom but no swims. You all did so great and stoked for you all as we watched you begin to eddy hop above the falls and pushing yourself outside your comfort zone.
Thanks Kerri and Kyle for the great instruction and also Eric and Jacob for support boating!!
Water level was decidedly low at only 1.39' and only about 225 CFS but still tons of fun and a great day for sure.
Music: "Conrad" by Ben Howard

[@hunterwhitekayak]

Incredible man! Love all the different angles of shots and lines!! Looking forward to this more than anything else with ya my brother!

[@RebeccaBaltich]

Looks like a fun day!

[@SouthernYak]

It was a fun day indeed!

[@DownstreamV]

Cool thing to do! Heyy there Courtney Smith!

[@SouthernYak]

Thanks Matt! It’s always a great thing seeing people learning more and developing skills and having a blast doing so! We had a great time doing this clinic for sure!

[@DownstreamV]

@@SouthernYak absolutely your always giving back I can appreciate that buddy !

[@joshinfwtx4506]

Heading out to do Ocooe end of July. Maybe I'll get lucky and this will be running also.

[@SouthernYak]

Baby falls runs pretty much no matter how low the rest of the river is. The approach gets manky but the pool below is pretty deep. Setting safety and having others with you for safety is important but the falls run even when river is low.

[@joshinfwtx4506]

@@SouthernYak I was thinking if flow was good for the whole run. Of course it would depend on who I'm paddling with. I only do flatwater solo. Thanks for sharing the teaching part in this video.

[@SouthernYak]

@@joshinfwtx4506 people run it lower but it gets really scrapy to do the entire ledges section if the level is below 1.75'. But you can run laps on the falls no matter the level. Thanks for watching and glad you found the video helpful!

[@the_uncommon_kayaker2536]

What an awesome day full of fun and knowledge!!! Thanks so much !!!

[@SouthernYak]

so glad you had a great time! it was a super fun day for sure!