Jaws Rapid (Nolicucky Training Videos)

River description of Jaws, a Class III, on the Nolichucky River.
CFS approximately ~1200.

[@PotomacPassageOolikhanna]

Your unique and upbeat narration style is awesome and really sets you apart from so many other rapid break down videos, keep it up! It's videos like these that I had searched long and hard for when I first began whitewater kayaking and was all on my own for so long. Your graphics and editing do such an excellent job in driving home in what to expect with each feature of the best line. Really feel prepped now in knowing what to expect and the best recovery for a swim. Thank you!

[@solonutiket564]

In my intermediate kayak class with NOC, we stopped at jaws for some learning. We were taking turns side surfing the hole when one of the instructors said "two boats in the hole", at that he surfed the back of the wave out to the middle of the river. I, did not want to do "two boats in the hole" and as I tried to enter the hole, I was too high and surfed across the wave, blasting off and out of the hole mid river. The instructor was in the eddy formed in the middle of of the river, just sitting there watching the action on river left. At I came out of the hole, out of control, my bow hit the instructor in the back really hard. He kinda went into shock, turned white and slowly paddled to river right. We got him out of the kayak and sat him on the side of the river. The other instructor told me to follow her. We paddled down river to a NOC canoe class that had just passed. We caught up to them at the bottom of 1/4 mile rapid. She asked the instructors to help her, and we walked back up stream. The instructors got a litter board from river left and we placed the injured instructor on it and carried him up the side of the river to the railroad track. From here we carried him upstream. When we got to the tressel we discussed what to do if a train came while we were on the tressel. We put lookouts on either end of the tressel and started across as fast as we could. When we got to the other side we sat the litter board down across the tracks. Almost immediately he began asking us to get him off the tracks. We assured him that we were being careful. Just then a whistle, and a train was coming up the tracks. We hurriedly took him down to our suv. took out the back seats and put him in , for a ride down to Erwin hospital ER. He was OK, but took off the next couple of days. My first experience at "jaws", in a kayak as I had rafted the river many times.