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| Travel Tips - Rafting Tips |
Many people do not want to go rafting or white water rafting on the grounds that they could not swim in the pool or not. In fact, I can not swim, it does not matter, you have come to believe that the thrill of whitewater rafting.
But the risks that exist when the alloy. In addition, challenges, rafting and adrenalin. Kompas.com talk Agustian operator Citarik torrent wild rapids, Sukabumi, West Java. If you are a beginner, when the alloy, the following tips Agustian.
Participants need to book a whitewater rafting. No matter if you can not swim, but it should be noted in a direction that can not swim. At the age of the participants, the policy of each operator is different because it depends on river conditions and the difficulty of whitewater rafting. In the wild, children aged 6 to participate in the alloy.
We recommend wearing comfortable cotton shorts and shirts. In order to feel comfortable sandals instead of shoes. We recommend the use of a mountain, not sandals, flip-flops.
Use a helmet and life jacket (life vest). Choose a jacket fit for your body. Find a jacket that fits into the body, not too tight or too loose. These jackets are available in various sizes and can be arranged.
- Choose the right size helmet on his head
Helmets are available in different sizes. How to make a good helmet chin straps do not overlap, and under the chin. But let the rope that is too small to cause damage to the chin.
It will not hurt to practice a bit before doing rafting. In some rafting operators, often scarce. However, rafting is a sport. If the heating is not, perhaps cramps in the middle of the driving pedals with his hands.
Sitting on the edge of the raft. Not in the middle or lower on a raft. This will help balance the body. Follow the steps where you sit. Sometimes the participants sit adjusted body mass.
- You can sit on the left or right
Do you sit in it because we want to talk a paddle and instructions for the kids when you come. Then drag your feet on the floor of the boat. There is a special pocket to keep your feet, you can not be undone easily.
You need to give special attention to wear and use of the paddle. Although the map can definitely hurt yourself or others, while the child. If you sit at your right hand, holding the end of the paddle to form a "T" on the right side. During the middle, the left stick.
Before the start of the alloy, the teachers who teach in the first rule, the various commands. Among them are records of "Next" and "rear". The statement "Next" is dikayuh oar in, to make the boat forward. The opposite direction from the inside of the boat and instructed to "return" will sound.
To tail for the children there, as rule, additional guidance in the form of a "true" and "left". This shows the person responsible for the child. Thus, in the form of instructions used to say, "all the way to the front, back, left" or "right back, going forward." To help the two statements to the boat turned to the right or left.
For example, "left front, left rear," then the person wearing the right foot forward motion immediately, and the person sitting on a roller coaster ride leaving at once. Instead, "right back, going forward," is a person sitting in the left foot forward, and those who rowed in the right shoulder in the opposite direction.
In addition, there is also a "stop". If you listen to these instructions, then took the oars and paddles to stop the pedal. There is also the command "Move Right" and "Move to the left." When you hear the "true", the people left to go immediately to the right side of the boat, while the right remains in office. Conversely, if the statement of "the left".
If you listen to the instructions, "boom", the statement is to avoid the rapids. Participants immediately took the paddle and bend the body into the boat and clinging to the boat. It is necessary to balance the body, not thrown into the river.
If you are thrown into the river, stay calm and not panic. However, how to swim does not like swimming in the pool. Slide the body and bring the body, as if he was in the water.
Then directs the appropriate organ of the river, not against the flow of current or vice versa to go. Take feet downstream in the amount and direction of movement or direction of the river. This is to notify you if there are rocks in front of him, and could hold.
If you are far enough guidance to be thrown, in general, take a rope of 20 meters. Participants can get a rope and out of the boat.
Sometimes, when the limit was intentional or upside down boat. In some cases, students will be in the boat overturned. Sometimes dark, instantly panicked. If this occurs, remain calm.
Although the boat upside down, the boat has air space. Try to dive off the boat. But in fact, the boat was still alive. It's just that you should try not to run aground.
