Canoeing Kayaking

Canoeing or canoeing is a recreational or sporting physical activity, practiced with paddle-propelled boats, such as canoes, kayaks, rafts or canoes. This activity is also referred to by the generic term "paddle sports". Canoeing is practiced as a leisure activity (nautical tourism, individual practice, competitions or associations) or in competition, in calm water (ponds), white water (rivers) and maritime (estuaries, sea) environments. Safety involves mastering the boat, technical and physical training, equipment, prior information on the conditions of the course (weather, state of the course), supervision, etc. varies according to the type of practice. The practitioners of this sport are called ceists