Ways to Fall on Your Face by Isaac Sinton-Remes

Imagine that you’re paddling up to Normans. Stephen has you all hyped up for the kickflip of destiny. You’re paddling hard up to the wave and you launch off of it. You get a lot of air but you just don’t have the rotation to bring it around. You fall right on your face and have to roll up in the boils. This is just one of many ways to fall on your face while kayaking. You’re working on flatwater loops. You get into a good bow stall. You pull hard to try to get some air and you throw forward but you don’t loop stroke hard enough and you land right on your face. Maybe you’re on Garb. You carve to the right, get over the curler you look back up at the foam at go back left on top of it. You come down the wave slam hard on your bow and though your body over the side of your boat to airscrew. However, your body isn’t far enough ahead of your boat and you fall face first into the green water in Garb. Falling on you face is an intrinsic part of kayaking and I have done it many times in just this first week and I expect to continue to fall on my face.