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Kayaking is quite a young kind of sport. But it is gradually gaining an enormous number of fans in Russia. This extreme discipline enjoys great popularity among active middle-aged people.
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In Russia pursuit of adrenaline starts about half a year before going to rivers full of rapids.
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The rookie kayakers develop “rowing muscles”, learn how to use paddles properly, and train special skills in a warm pool from November till April.
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The growing popularity of white-water rafting has led to the emergence of kayaker tours in Russia.
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There are quite a lot of places to go rafting in Russia. The most popular places among kayakers are Karelia, Kola Peninsula, the Urals, Altai, Caucasus and the Far East. At the same time, it is noteworthy that there are several dozens of rivers in each of the mentioned regions and thousands of possible routes.
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The popularity of such a sport as kayaking provokes creating special rafting tours along mountain rivers.
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Those willing to join in with this extreme but really fascinating sport can make use of special tours organized by kayaking club. Their benefit is that club's members can get a kayak and all the necessary gear on-site.
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Karelian region can offer two categories of special programmes : for newcomers and for extreme sports lovers.
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Tourist agencies organize expeditions to the waterfalls in the north of lake Ladoga for mature kayakers twice a year – in spring and fall.
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In Russia the place for sea kayak tours is Maloe More connecting the mainland and the largest island in Baikal - Olkhon.
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Another center of sea kayaking in Russia is the Far East, with three epicenters – Sakhalin (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk), Primorye (Vladivostok) and Kamchatka (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy).
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Kayaking is a dream of one-aloners and an ideal sport for mavericks. Kayakers can rely only on their own strengths and skills.
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What are the major dangers of kayaking? First of all, fainting in the water. For many reasons - starting from cerebral concussion and ending with exposure to cold or harsh thermal gradient…
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Among the consequences could be also the loss of mobility as a result of damaged locomotor system. Don’t forget about endless scratch marks and callosity. The loss of gear in white water is a routine case for kayakers.
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If an emergency situation happens, you must keep constant self-control and watch the conditions in white water.
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Kayaking is a real philosophy, which has opened a new era of water tourism and water camping n the most picturesque places of Russia.
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