Can someone please tell me what snickersnacking or snickersnack means. I have seen it written a few times and have no Idea what it refers to. I assume it refers to a move that other paddling crafts call something else (like calling a “eddy turn” a “pirouette” or am I wrong about that too?) and also assume it comes from Romans book? I’m not going to buy Romans book (sorry Roman I already know how to paddle) but I would love to know, please help!
Hey again Kirkinbend,
Sorry that your always hearing from me! I have kind of switched my attention from backpackinglight.com which has huge traffic and it is a little slower here!
If I remember properly Bander snatching is where the back of your boat is pulled under after a drop and snicker snackering is some other way of getting flipped but I can’t remember which? The references come from a fiction book?
Cheers,
Jeremy.
The term comes from Lewis Carroll’s poem “Jabberwocky”.
I believe Roman was using the term as a quick direction change, one with a hard paddle stroke on one side of the raft followed by a backward stroke on the other side.