Friday, 12 August 2022

By Dashiell Hall

Going for 2 sessions at Keeners I got a lot of different reactions. Misty positive, thinking I was going to get so good with such amazing coaching, and that I’d have double the fun overall. And some just stoked that I got to paddle more. But there were also the negatives. The repetitiveness of going for 2 sessions started to settle into my mind once all the keeners from last session left. The same chicken for ant other 3 weeks, the same on water and off water activities, the same stretch of whitewater. There was also the question of should I have just gone home played video games, hung out with friends and train flatwater in my pool while preparing for college, some regret started to form in my mind. But then the next session of new faces some I knew came in. Soon the faces became familiar and I felt myself pushing to train harder on the river than ever and trying even more to improve. The new interactions with the second session gave a whole new flavor to the experience of Keeners, and really showed me how to people at keeners can change your experience. It made it worth experiencing both great flavors of 2 sessions instead of just going for 1 and calling it quits.

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