fall is approaching

hey bloggers,

its been a while since i have posted anything on this site. My apologies.  Life's been a little crazy lately. 

It was cold today, not cold, but chilly i should say.  Chilly enough to require a hoodie and some long pants.  That didn't stop me though.  Still decided to take the plunge and  hit up Aylesworth Park in Jermyn, Pa.   I took both boats today, the Rock Star for playboating, and the RPM for just putting around the lake a bit. 

Didn't expect to find two large parties going on when i arrived.  I normally tend to avoid kayaking, well doing flatwater tricks, when there are too many people around.  I only do this because most people have never seen this type of kayaking and it normally leads me into long conversations about why people do this type of boating.  The outcome of the conversation is almost always the same... they think its "stupid" to flip a perfectly good boat over on purpose.  oh well. 
    on the other hand, however, it has led to some more open minded people asking lots of questions on the sport, and on the rare occasion actually setting a spark to the flame of getting more people into it, my ultimate goal.

So anyways, i decided to suit up and continue onto the water to practice.  Despite the long stares and curiosity of what the hell i was doing.. no one really cared.  Cool.   So i did my usual warm up strokes, forward, backward, sweep, and draws.... then on to buisness.  Im more confident in my backwards double pump, and my ability to get the boat vertical on its stern, and hold it there.  My balance has definetely improved.  my roll, definetly feel very confident about it, i haven't wet exited my boat since learning my roll. 

i am also able to bring the boat up on stern stall by just doing some easy's.... or spinning the boat on edges with just abs and legs... no paddle. 

however... still not able to do a forward double pump. the angles or something ? its just not clicking.... im working like hell on it though.  i can almost bring the boat up on the bow when doing a plowing ender. but mostly not.  I can bring the liquid logic up with the plowing ender and flip it right over end.  but the jackson, i think because its made more for loops and air time,,, with all that volume up front, cannot seem to get her to stand up on bow.

so thats it from today, really wanted to run some river section today, but even with the rivers being as low as they are, single kayakers in a river section is frowned upon.... the buddy system works.  i couldn't find a soul to kayak in the river setting so flat water had to do..... but all in all it worked out well.  had fun.

until next time my friends..
keep it real.. you only live once :O)