How Do You Ferry In Whitewater Rafting?

"Ferrying is another maneuver that you should master before you get out into some major white water. Ferrying is a very effective way to get to one side of the river to the other or to avoid and obstacle by moving from one side of the river to the other without losing too too much ground. There are a couple of sorts of ferries. You can do an upstream ferry and you can do that conservatively. We have conservative amount of angle with an upstream current and you work your way slowly across the river or you can have an aggressive ferry angle where you're driving aggressively across the river. You can also use a back ferry. The back ferry is where we actually point it downstream and you're paddling backwards and ferrying across from one side of the river or the other. The back ferry tends to be a little more complicated. Paddlest tend to trip over their paddles a little more with a back ferry and it's harder for the guide to keep a conservative or an aggressive angle with the back ferry ...  more