{"id":1840,"date":"2010-04-08T09:57:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T15:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2010-04-08T09:59:28","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T15:59:28","slug":"kayak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=1840","title":{"rendered":"Kayak!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This semester at U of M, part of my teaching duties is to supervise several student interns. One of them happens to be a badass sponsored Kayaker who is doing her internship at a local community center where she and her boyfriend (also a badass) teach a kayaking class. So, as part of my supervisory duties, I participated in a class.<\/p>\n

I’m sure I made a wonderful first impression- she gave me her spray skirt to use, couldn’t get it on over my butt, and had to have help to pull it on over my head. Then, when I went to sit in the boat (also hers), we had to remove the padding from the hip area.<\/p>\n

Hey- life’s not always easy when you’ve got one of these:
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Once I was in the water, the first thing I learned was how to bail out if I got turned upside down and couldn’t right myself. I thought it was pretty easy, though I can see how it’d freak some people out. Next, I started learning the basic roll- tipping upside down then using my paddle\/hips to roll rightside-up.<\/p>\n

After a little practice and a couple of failed attempts at doing it on my own, one of the instructors noticed that I wasn’t actually getting my paddle out of the water once I was upside-down, so I wasn’t really getting the “push” from it that I needed. So, next attempt, I fixed that, and BAM! Up I went! (which also elicited few cheers from some of the other people in the pool)<\/p>\n

I managed a couple more successful rolls before moving on to how to paddle and turn. By the end of the class, I was actually a bit worn out. It was a lot of fun, and a useful skill to add to my repertoire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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