Learning by John Wagner

I’ll admit the first week felt like I was years of skill behind everyone else but I think I have been making progress and growing in confidence. I have made it my goal to get my kick flip by the end of next week. This would be a great skill to have because it fits my home river perfectly. The Kennebec is a river made up of large wave trains following each other so being able to kickflip off of those waves could make it so much more fun. Today was the first time I tried it and to be honest it was a lot more successful than I thought… but I still landed on my face. I hope I have time to work on it next week. Other than that I also want to work on my bow stall but I think the kickflip will prove more useful and I can already do a stern stall. I thought I needed my backdeck too but only because it is needed for a kickflip and I think I can try to get it without the backdeck and even landing on my face is kind of fun. No matter what, I have already learned a lot and plan to continue learning stuff.