Days on the water with friends are the best. I finally did a bit of slalom again, and remembered how much I love coaching. Niamh was learning some edge control and how to eddy in and out, and she really rocked it! Some lovely progress for Esther, too, navigating that tricky right-hand pull. And how awesome is it that my mum comes paddling with me when she has the time? I'm the only one in my family who really paddles and I used to wonder where I got it from, but my mum is such a natural I think I know now : D This was maybe her third time in a boat, if that. Thanks for the idea, Damien, lovely to paddle with you and see everybody! Hopefully Elsie gets her spraydeck sorted soon .
Always happy to get people into parkrun, always happy to turn parkrun friends into paddling friends.
No photos of the slaloming, but it was awesome, there was only one other person on the whole course in the end, so I could get some proper runs in : )
My mum shredding it on her second go at white water paddling
