Specialist boats are available, although most plastic white-water boats will do to start with. Get someone who does it regularly to take you the first few times. Polo A competitive sport, normally played in a swimming pool. Soft paddles are used and helmets with faceguards worn in competition. Games Games in canoes are great fun, but make sure someone is keeping an eye out for accidental capsizes, canoes getting blown away, people getting cold, and people getting hit by paddles.
Plastic canoes are less likely to get damaged than fibreglass ones.
Games with a Ball A wide variety of games can be based on the canoe polo idea. Play outside or in a swimming pool. Helmets are often a good idea. Youngsters tend to concentrate only on the end of the paddle in the water, not the end waving around in the air, or their mates face. Two people stand up and swap canoes.