Thousands of years ago, the invention of the canoe and kayak was revolutionary in the means of transport. Afterwards, the technology evolved, and the kayak has been surpassed by transports requiring less effort for its passengers such as sailing and motor boating. Thus, canoeing and kayaking have become leisure sports which are divided into different branches: whitewater kayaking, sea kayaking, sprint canoeing/kayaking and pleasure canoeing. Some of these branches like the whitewater kayaking and sprint kayak/canoe have become amateur sports you can watch at the Olympics. These sports are continuously developing. Whether it’s developing the paddle, the boat or the physical training, these two sports find new discoveries that will improve the performance of their athletes.
Our project is to expand our knowledge related to sprint canoeing using our new knowledge from college and pushing it a little further. Indeed, we will study the effects of physics and chemistry on our sport. In physics, we will discuss the size of the boat depending on every olympic distances, the water depth, acceleration and forces applied to the boat, on the paddle and on the footrest related to speed of the boat. For chemistry, we will look the elements that compose the boat as well as the boat itself, we will study the impact of salt water, fresh water and the temperature on the speed and on the buoyancy and forces applied. Also, we will study the human body by analyzing its use during training and we will talk about anaerobic and aerobic workouts related to the various race distances. We will also try to see more of the ethical side of the sport by talking about the transformation of the body as a performance machine. For the linguistic side, we will make a presentation to an audience whether in English or in French. Also, our destination and the people with whom we will work will enable us to speak French and English. Our different tests will be done with the use of a GPS, a polar watch, videos, a thermometer and a stopwatch. We would as well want to compare the tests on both development athletes and internationals, experimented ones.
We thought of this project because both of us have been practicing sprint canoe-kayak for many years and its development affects us as active athletes in its environment. Thus, exploring multiple topics related to this sport, we will develop our knowledge related to its practice and its environment which will allow us to be connect with more athletes and to be more informed. In addition, we would like to work with athletes of national and international level in order to conduct our tests in which it will allow us to work with more experienced people and more specific to their discipline. Also, this would allow us to have more representative results. We would work with different coaches that will give us different perspective which will expand our research work.
We will leave in the company of Team Quebec [1] to participate in the spring training camp. That is why we will be able to test and have companions to achieve our goals and get accurate results. Since several years, the Quebec team helps athletes both financially and in providing programs of trainings and camps that allow athletes to develop and reach the national team and become elite athletes internationally.
[1] http://www.canoekayakquebec.com/
Our project is to expand our knowledge related to sprint canoeing using our new knowledge from college and pushing it a little further. Indeed, we will study the effects of physics and chemistry on our sport. In physics, we will discuss the size of the boat depending on every olympic distances, the water depth, acceleration and forces applied to the boat, on the paddle and on the footrest related to speed of the boat. For chemistry, we will look the elements that compose the boat as well as the boat itself, we will study the impact of salt water, fresh water and the temperature on the speed and on the buoyancy and forces applied. Also, we will study the human body by analyzing its use during training and we will talk about anaerobic and aerobic workouts related to the various race distances. We will also try to see more of the ethical side of the sport by talking about the transformation of the body as a performance machine. For the linguistic side, we will make a presentation to an audience whether in English or in French. Also, our destination and the people with whom we will work will enable us to speak French and English. Our different tests will be done with the use of a GPS, a polar watch, videos, a thermometer and a stopwatch. We would as well want to compare the tests on both development athletes and internationals, experimented ones.
We thought of this project because both of us have been practicing sprint canoe-kayak for many years and its development affects us as active athletes in its environment. Thus, exploring multiple topics related to this sport, we will develop our knowledge related to its practice and its environment which will allow us to be connect with more athletes and to be more informed. In addition, we would like to work with athletes of national and international level in order to conduct our tests in which it will allow us to work with more experienced people and more specific to their discipline. Also, this would allow us to have more representative results. We would work with different coaches that will give us different perspective which will expand our research work.
We will leave in the company of Team Quebec [1] to participate in the spring training camp. That is why we will be able to test and have companions to achieve our goals and get accurate results. Since several years, the Quebec team helps athletes both financially and in providing programs of trainings and camps that allow athletes to develop and reach the national team and become elite athletes internationally.
[1] http://www.canoekayakquebec.com/