The PaddlerUK magazine September 2015 issue 4 | Page 6

PADDLERUK

Sam Ward
Photo: Antony Edmonds

Alan Ward
Photo: Antony Edmonds

Brandon Hepburn
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Mat Dumoulin
Photo: Antony Edmonds

LITERAL

Cartwheel:

The granddaddy of all freestyle moves, this was
actually invented by a slalom paddler in 1979. It
was Norbert Sattler who first threw the move at
the 1979 slalom worlds in Jonquiere, Quebec,
Canada. The first splitwheel was thrown by Eric
Jackson 14 years later.

Flip turn:

Clean:

Corran Addison came up with the ‘clean’ prefix
to describe a move done off one paddle stroke
(with the strokeless move later getting the ‘super
clean’ prefix)

DERIVATIVE
Grind:

Part of the development that became the helix,
it traces its origin back to Corran Addison and
Steve Fisher (who named it).

From skateboarding, where a rider plants his
deck sideways and forces the slide the ramp.
Adapted to kayaking by Corran Addison in the
late 1990s.

Loop:

Shuvit:

If the cartwheel was the first real ‘move’, then this
one is the most iconic. It was, as far as I can tell,
invented by top US paddler Clay Wright, who also
named the variants (air loop, back loop etc).

From skateboarding, adapted to kayaking by
Corran Addison (late 1990s). The skateboarding
term was originally called a Ty hop, after its
inventor Ty Page.

Claire O’Hara
Photo: Pete Astles