After a long season of coaching and training, we spent the past two weekends just paddling. All sorts of boats; all kinds of water.
Greg and Sharon take the Prospector down the Marge Kline Whitewater Course.
We were especially excited about paddling our new Esquif Detonator, a ten-foot banana of a whitewater canoe that was all kinds of fun catching eddies and surfing small wave holes.
Sharon twirls her paddle while surfing a wave.
It was also nice to be back in our whitewater kayaks, which have seen too little water this season, eclipsed by our time in sea kayaks and canoes.
Alec, enjoying the ride.
As Leon Sommé of Body Boat Blade says, we work on our skills so we can have more fun. In our quest to improve as coaches and paddlers, it’s easy to forget that we got into this sport–and stay in it–because we truly enjoy being out on the water in small, human-powered craft. And it’s important to take the time to reconnect with that most basic idea.
