12/01/2013

Seeing what happened yesterday and with me being out all day today I thought I'll do today's post now as I'm still awake, I've been looking forward for today since I heard about it, my first time in almost 2 years canoeing. To some people that might not seem big or important, but I live for watersports, the only bad thing about them is It's always an early start (early for me). Even though I was in a Canadian Canoe instead of my playboat as my knees won't bend as much yet as they need to to get into my kayak, I managed to have fun and even have a bit of a play. The first part was the hardest for me because of how technical canoe strokes are to kayak strokes, well you've only got a single-bladed paddle, and getting back into my rhythm, once I got that sorted I was fine. The first fun was a weir just downstream of put in, and even though It's nothing like ones I've been down in my kayak I've never done weirs in an open before, but a 50cm weir you were over it before you knew what happened, the second weir was when everyone had a laugh as I wasn't sitting just right in the canoe went down the weir and went for a swim, but in true style of mine I swam to the bank, looked at my audience (sorry, fellow paddlers) and couldn't help but say 'They could've ran the hot water for a bit longer' and after that I was like I'd never been away, found a nice small rapid to practise my ferry-gliding and breaking in/out and even managed to do the unthinkable and surfed a standing wave in a 16 foot open boat. Hopefully tomorrow will be just as fun but less tiring, if you've never been kayaking/canoeing before and didn't have a clue what I was on about I apologise but I seriously recommend trying it, so until tomorrow check out the twitter @BePositiveAday and stay positive.