Hey guys its Ben here. Yesterday was competition day since it was Friday. We had 2 choices of where we would like to do our 2 competition rides which only one of them would be counted, Garberator and push button. Most people went to garb because they would be able to get more air on tricks, its bigger and the water is moving much faster than push button. A select few decided to go to pushbutton because it is more of a hole/wave type thing instead of a giant wave, therefore its better to do hole tricks on such as loop, space godzillas etc.. I decided that I could probably get more points on pushbutton than on garb so I practiced and competed on push button. Most people had awesome practice runs that would have scored lots of points in a competition and then completely flopped on their competition rides. For example yesterday before the 2 rides that counted for the competition I landed my first roundhouse and then did it again next ride, and doing a few spins and shuvits beforehand, then on my rides that counted I only got 4 points for catching the wave and doing a 180 and on my second ride I only got 1 point for catching the wave. This shows that most people will not have as good competition rides as practice rides. The reason we do competitions at keeners is to learn how to compete to get the most amount of points, to do this we learn how to deal with the pressure of competing. This will help us later in our kayaking lives by already having a decent amount of experience in a competition environment while this may be new to many people and they will most likely not do their best during the competition because the pressure will put them off. So overall not only is competition day alot of fun but we also learn alot of important skills from it without even knowing.
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