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Hi everyone! My name is Ashley
Boyd and this is my first session at Keeners. I’m 15 years old and I’m from
Ottawa. Luckily for me, that’s only about an hour away from the river. So far
the Keener program has been really great and much better than I ever could’ve
thought. I heard about this program through my family, since they live in the
Valley and used to work at WT for many years. I’m so thankful to my parents for
letting me come here!
Today was Competition Friday. The goal is to improve
our freestyle boating and to get a feel for what a competition would be like.
We went over a review sheet of a bunch of tricks and how many points they’d be
worth. We spent the morning at a hole called Warm Apple Pie practicing getting
in some surfs. We came back in the afternoon for the actual competition. The
weather today wasn’t that great and it was raining as well. That made it pretty
hard to stay warm and to want to get wet in the rapid. I was spending a lot of
time improving my ability to enter and exit the current, which thankfully kept
me moving and dry.
In just the afternoon I felt a huge difference and I feel much more confident
now. I’m really happy with all that’s happened this first week and I’m really
looking forward to the next two here with the Keeners program.
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