Canoeing is an exercise from the Upper Body Series. Like much of the material in the Wingmaster course, when I developed this exercise I thought "How did no one think of doing this before me?" A big portion of the Wingmaster material is previously existing material re-imagined for the Wingmaster.
I've made it a part of the way I train clients that they get on their feet for at least one exercise in every workout. The benefits of a complex exercise that includes squats, like this one, go beyond leg strength and even include benefits for your brain.
There are 6 ways you can move your spine. One of them, circumduction, is a circular movement of the spine, either internally or externally. The idea of this exercise is that its an internal circumduction if your spine was twice as long.