The Kayak is a type of boat in which the practitioner is seated facing the bow (front orbow) in the direction of travel, and hands as a propellant carries a shovel two spoons. Its origin dates back to the Eskimos, who used to fish and hunt.
The kayak is a small vessel in relation to others, cover ajar or open, rather wide (manga)and elongated (length). They are one, two or four seats, and there are river, whitewater,or track speed, sea kayaking, rodeo, kayak polo, whitewater slalom, recreation, etc.
A romantic kayaker kayaking defined as the transformation of his being on a ship as a whole: ”My body is my ship and my soul the captain. ”
Exact origin of kayak is unknown, but it is known that the Eskimos were the first to use it. It’s supposed to be the oldest boat in use today and is estimated to have more than 3000 years. Were used by aleuitanos peoples, the Inuit of northern Canada, Greenland andIceland Norse, Lapps of northern Europe and the Koryak and Chukchi tribes of SiberiaAccording to some historians, the word kayak means ”clothes to walk on water “ since it was built to the exact measurements of the rower, others suggest it means ”man-boat”.
Today there are paddlers who say that the kayak you have to wear it, do not get into it. InInuit society, children could not use these boats and only upon reaching adulthood, andits final measures, the family, almost a ritual act, he built his kayak. It was said that if an Eskimo went hunting and did not return was because he had used a borrowed boat.
The Eskimos also created specific items for this activity as the anorak constructedusing guts of birds and other materials, also developed a type of spray skirt that left onlyher face bare of the rower.
Also developed techniques such as roll (“eskimo”), which allowed it to quickly righting incase of a rollover, because exposure to cold water could kill in seconds, is also known that the Eskimos could not swim.