When you start kayaking, one of the first things you learn is your roll. Swimming is always the last option, its usually dangerous and it is NOT fun. In Keeners, you’ll get to kayak a lot, big waves, holes and beautiful rapids. You will also get to swim a lot, those big rapids that scared you , yep, you are going to swim them as well. I was not stoked when the coaches told us that we had to swim all through McCoys , I was scared out of my mind. All we had to do was give Sadlers hole a big high five and try to swim left towards the football eddy, that was it. But something in my head kept telling me I wasn’t going to make it, that even though all the current went left, I was going to do something wrong and drown in that rapid. Everything went fine, it was actually one of the best things I have done so far with this program, I got to high five Saddlers and hug Phil’s (which was pretty scary and wasn’t in the plan) , I got to the football eddy just fine and had a blast. Even though no one will recommend you to swim while you are kayaking, I have discovered that swimming big scary rapids is pretty fun after all.
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