How to improve your skills at keeners by Grey Edens

 If you just wake up each morning and paddle the Ottawa rapids hoping you’ll magically learn moves, you won’t. When you want to learn a move as fast as possible, consult with the coaches and feel free to ask them what you can do to get a certain move. If you don’t do this - for example if you are trying to learn how to loop and you plug into a hole and throw forward hoping you’ll land the loop and not even ask the coaches how you can land it like a pro, you’ll never learn how to loop during your tenure as a keener. Another example of what would happen while attempting to throw a move such as an air screw in a wave, would be like if you were just bouncing up down in a wave and trying to back deck in mid-air and landing on your face. Then you try to airscrew again and again constantly landing on your face without even asking the instructor what you are doing wrong. It is MANDATORY that you ask the instructor what you are doing wrong and how you could improve unless you want to purposely never land an airscrew and land on your face. Personally, I go to keeners to improve my kayaking and have fun. But I can only improve my kayaking if I consult with instructors. This scenario is the same with other keeners. And this is how you learn fast in keeners. (By asking instructors what you can do to improve)