Why any young paddler should come to keeners by Ava Christensen

A lot of keeners come into the program not knowing much about freestyle but still benefit as much as those who do. So far all kayakers  interested in coming heres why you should.

1. You will make over 20 new people who will become some of your closest friends. This session there were a lot of keeners from North Carolina. Now when they go back home they have even more people to paddle with than before they came. And your friends from other states can show you down their own favorite home rivers if you go up and visit.
2. If you come with a creaking or even a slalom background keeners will improve your paddling. You learn how to get out of challenging holes, get more comfortable being beat down, and running challenging and scary lines.
3. You learn how to have a ton of fun no matter where you are on the river. Before keeners I didn't know anything about flatwater tricks and disliked going on flatwater. But each morning we do warm ups on flatwater and in between rapids we work on learning flatwater skills we can use in the whitewater. This past week I've been working on getting a flatwater loop every chance I get. Having something to work on makes everything more fun.