What are the various types of canoeing?
Canoeing is both recreational and competitive. Recreational disciplines include touring and sea kayaking, whilst competitive canoeing includes canoe polo, canoe sailing, freestyle, marathon, slalom, sprint racing, surf and wild water racing. However, somewhat confusingly most canoeing disciplines, including canoe polo, actually use closed cockpit boats, or kayaks. Whilst these are technically referred to as ‘kayaking’, canoeing is the general term used for all of the disciplines. Q. What is canoe polo? Canoe Polo is a fast and exciting full contact team ball game that combines paddling with ball handling skills. Tactics, team work and positional play are as important as individual skills, as five players per team attempt to play the ball around the pitch in order to score more goals than the opposing team. Q. How do you play canoe polo? The players move the ball, equivalent to a water polo ball, around the 35 m by 23 m flat-water pitch by throwing or paddle flicking. The goals are 1.5
