How the Canada Cup Competition Helped Me be a Better Paddler by Jackson Lillie

This past Sunday we had the Canada cup freestyle competition and it was humbling to say the least the competition consisted of The preliminary round and the final round in the preliminary round you only need around 25 points or more to pass, but unfortunately, we had two people get zero points. One person get 25 and another dropout Because of an injury I and in the preliminary rounds, you would have four rides and two of them count we were going to do a semifinal round, but to save time they decided to skip to the finals after the preliminary and we ended up doing a 10 person finals which is three rides and one counts my first ride. I flushed off the wave and that was the same for my next two and I ended up with zero points in the finals which isn’t bad because I went into the competition with not extremely high expectations for myself, even though I didn’t get any points in the finals. but I still had a ton of fun and I would totally do it again. It really shows that even though you can have 1 million great practice laps it won’t always translate into competition.