Riverboarding is a boardport where participants lie face down on their boards with fins at their feet for encouragement and steering. This sport is also known as hydrospeed in Europe and as riverboarding or white water shifts in New Zealand, depending on the type of board being used. Riverboarding encompasses commercial rescue, recreation, and rushing water using a high capacity river basin, designed to float in very aerated water.
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Origins
Riverboarding is believed to have originated in the late 1970s. It is claimed to originate from France, where the raft guide is filled with burlap sacks with life vests and down the rapids. Soon, motorists adapted their private submarine shells to mold them, and the plastic version of the board was born. Sometimes in the late 1980s, Robert Carlson started running the river in California using a marine bodyboard and eventually made his own bigger and thicker board and had a handle. In 1986, Ged Hay began carrying his body boards down the Kawarau River near Queenstown in New Zealand while on his day off as a rafting guide.
European riders also developed a foam version (called hydrospeed) from plastic boards to reduce weight and avoid injuring each other during collisions that are sometimes generated from one rider traveling downstream and the other facing upstream while surfing. Currently, homemade hydrospeed foam is found mainly among European riders. The growing sport in North America, riverboarding has grown in popularity from the exposure of the media and the emergence of commercial operators who travel aboard.
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Tools
Riverboarders typically use fins to provide a boost to navigate in the stream, while personal flotation devices provide additional buoyancy. Wetsuits, boots and helmets are worn as a protector of cold and stone. In addition, shin guards, gloves, knee pads, thigh pads, and elbow pads are sometimes used for extra protection in shallow rivers. Instructions, board designs and equipment are on the rise, making riverboarding safer and opening up the possibility of rapids that can be run on the banks of the river and new tricks that can be done while surfing the stomach.
Rescue usage
In the use of rescue, the board is used to support rescuers and victims in the water during rescue. The rider must involve the mind and body - think of the best way to descend the river while using its fins to push out of danger. Riverboards can offer a valuable pursuit rescue rescuer to access downstream downs who may not be accessible by hand or rope.
Rivers
Some companies operate sailing or sleigh rides in New Zealand near Queenstown, Wanaka and Rotorua. Some companies also operate guided boat rides in the United States near Missoula, Montana; Sacramento, California; Bend, Oregon, and east Tennessee. In South America, river boarding is popular in Rio Fonce in San Gil, Colombia. One company based in Voss, Norway, offers diversion of rivers in several rivers in the area. In Europe, the Soca river in Slovenia is an important location with the extreme options available for more experienced riders. In Canada, Montreal, Quebec, the Lachine rapids, at Saint-Lawrence river boarding are also offered. Commercial riverside operations begin on the Tully River in Queensland, Australia, by 2014.
Recordings
Mike McVey currently holds the record for the tallest waterfall on the banks of the river with the 31 meter (101º, ft) Metlako drop off at Eagle Creek in Oregon. Mike Horn previously held the record for the tallest waterfall on the banks of the river with a fall of 22 meters (72 feet) high waterfall in the Pacuare River upstream in Costa Rica.
See also
- American River (North, Middle, and South Forks)
- Clark Fork River
- The Kawarau River
- Kern River
- Truckee River
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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