one of my friends kayaks a lot, and he's just curious.|||That' a weird question and I'm not really sure what he means. The two basic types of kayaks are sit-on-top and sit-inside. Sit on tops are like a cross between a surfboard and a canoe and your legs and feet stay on top of the deck, exposed to the water and sun, braced against molded in slots in the boat. Traditional kayaks (which includes most whitewater boats and the majority of recreational and sea touring kayaks) you keep your legs and feet inside the boat, underneath the deck.
There is no kayak I know of that you are "forced" to paddle with your feet over the side. Since you need to brace your feet to paddle effectively that would be counterproductive to have them hanging out, However, when I am paddling my sit-inside kayak on a lazy shallow stream on a sunny day I will sometimes take my legs out and hang my feet over the side just because it feels good to drag them in the cool water. It also helps me scoot the boat over shallow sand and gravel bars. But I do it by choice, not because I am "forced" to do it.
Having feet dragging over the side of a boat just creates drag so it usually is not a preferred way to paddle any boat, except a two-person whitewater raft, where you ride the inflated sides like a horse with one leg in the boat and one in the water.
If your friend means are there boats where you have to bail out instead of roll in a capsize, bailing out is always an option (and what your body tends to do anyway when you flip). But it is better to learn to Eskimo roll, brace yourself in the cockpit and roll back up quickly rather than ejecting from the boat, expecially in whitewater.|||No is the answer. To power the kayak you push against the foot rest to create a connection with the kayak. You then place the blade ( the end of the paddle) in the water and pull the kayak past the paddle to create a powerful forward stoke. repeat on the other side side and do it again and again and this will move the kayak fast. place you feet out side the boat then you are forced to lean back as your sat in the cockpit well. IF you paddle without connecting to the kayak then you may pull yourself along and leave the kayak behind until you connect then pull the kayak using delayed energy.
bit like wear flip flops which are to big they work but are hard work to control
Some paddlers kayak like this just for fun|||well i dont think sit-on top kayaks have petels|||No, only if you want to
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