One reason why keeners is a great program is they make everyone take swift water rescue. Taking swift water rescue is not only helpful for your time at keeners but also helpful for when I go back home. I’ll am a better paddler for having these skills and I will be able to teach others. Also, having this skill will make you more appealing to others because to run harder rivers you will have to know how to save someone if something bad were to happen.
My experience with Swift Water Rescue was fun and helpful. Before coming to keeners I think I might have only thrown a throw rope once and it was just for practice and it wasn’t at someone. Swift water rescue helped me throw the rope farther and more accurate. It was fun being able to “save” your friends on the river. Doing all the saving exercises made me feel more confident on the water because I now know if I had to I could save someone on the water. One thing that I think that I could improve on was being live bate and flipping an unconscious kayaker over. I’m not the biggest person but that shouldn’t be an excuse for why i couldn’t flip the kayak over. When I get home I will practice that skill back home to become better at it. Even though, not being able to do that is okay because if something like that were to happen on the river then I could be an anchor or another position to help. Overall Swift Water Rescue is a really important and useful skill for any kayaker.
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