Hi my name is Aaron and this is the story of my first beatdown Thursday. Since this was my first beatdown Thursday I was quite scared of Phils hole because of the size of it. When I saw it, I thought to myself, “what the heck am I doing, this is suicide”. One of the many urges i felt was the urge to take frequent leaks in the eddy do to my nervousness, this was horrible because I was really dehydrated and peeing didn’t help that at all. I think one of the other emotions I felt was the zombie factor made famous a kayak book by William Neely. The zombie factor is when you are so scared that you can’t spit and that is what I was thinking. I think it was important that I did it because if I didn’t I would not have gained any confidence in my ability to escape a death grip hole. One other thing that helped me was to be able to shut down my thoughts and just think about what I was doing in the moment and not what was about to happen. When you are faced with a challenge you need to go head on into it and realize that you will come out on top most of the time unless you have negative thoughts in which case you might not. I liked beatdown Thursday not only cause I got beat down but also I liked watching the other Keeners get beat down also.
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