Eskimo coup - the technique of setting up an overturned kayak on an even keel with a jerk of hips or support on an oar .
Content
- 1 History
- 2 Coup Techniques
- 3 notes
- 4 References
History
The method is borrowed from the Eskimos or, as they call themselves, Inuit . For them, this was the main survival technique when capsizing a kayak while hunting seals or whales [1] [2] . Often, the Eskimos themselves were forced to overturn their tiny little vessels, so that high heavy waves did not break their neck. In order to emerge to the surface, they used the so-called Eskimo coup, making the row a short oar under water. This was the first thing his son learned from his father at sea. [3]
By 1765, the first description of ten straight keel methods made by an Inuit missionary relates. These methods included coups with a full oar, half an oar, with a harpoon on hand. Everywhere after positioning the oars, a jerk was made with hips.
The first non-Inuit to learn the coup technique was Austrian Edie Poulat. In 1927, he did this by examining the materials of travelers Nansen and Jofansen. The English traveler Gino Watkins learned the Eskimo coup directly from the Inuit in 1930, but soon went missing in the Arctic . All these Europeans used pseudo-technique without or with a minimal jerk of their hips.
Around 1965 , but not earlier, the hips were rediscovered and became part of the correct flip technique for rowing on stormy water.
Coup Techniques
There are several basic ways to perform this technique:
- "lever arm"
- "screw"
- reverse "screw"
- "Scrap" (standing on a support) - a sporty style.
- without paddle or by hand
Notes
- ↑ Robert Flaherty Life Among the Eskimos - Session Magazine No. 32
- ↑ "... Eskimos, who in their small sealskin boats - kayaks - were not afraid to even chase a whale" - Helmut Hanke “On the Seven Seas”
- ↑ Helmut Hanke “On the Seven Seas” - bookz.ru
Links
- KGB: The Eskimo coup technique - “Kiev City Library” Maxim Shnyrin
- Eskimo kayak coup on YouTube