This is Mike Aranoff with the Canoe Kayak and Paddle Company. Most of the time when you are in a touring kayak, you are going to be doing forward or you going to be going backwards.

Sometimes you want to be going sideways, maybe you want to go sideways because your buddy has got the oreos and you want to go get them, maybe you want to go sideways to pull up to a peer. Here is how you do that. You start off, sit up and then wind up or rotate your torso, place the paddle off your hip, draw, stop slice the blade up, draw, let s called a draw stroke, with an in-water recovery and that s one of the draw family.

Rotate, draw, stop. Key is that this is simply a fulcrum lever. You are going to rotate your top hand this is your fulcrum, the paddle shaft is the lever. Your top hand remains loose, you pull the paddle towards you -- you are actually pulling your hip towards the kayak blade.

You stop before you get to the kayak, your top hand is loose, you twist the blade out, slice it away in the water, so on top of the water it looks like this sliced out, stop, sliced out. That s a draw stroke with an in-water recovery.