{"id":1201,"date":"2010-08-18T22:52:14","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T02:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2010-08-18T22:52:14","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T02:52:14","slug":"nack-greenland-paddling-skills-day-with-alison-sigethy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/?p=1201","title":{"rendered":"NACK Greenland Paddling Skills Day with Alison Sigethy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alison was the first international woman to compete in all nine events at the 2006 Greenland National Kayak Championship and she medaled in eight of them.\u00a0 You can check out her rolling video on <strong><a title=\"Alison Sigethy Kayak Rolling Video\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vN4QrNVbnv8\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a><\/strong>.<br \/>\nAlison in not only a talented competitor, she is a patient and insightful instructor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/GPw_001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1204\" title=\"GPw_001\" src=\"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/GPw_001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/GPw_001.jpg 640w, https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/GPw_001-300x148.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Working directly with each individual, she spent several hours in the water guiding paddles along the surface and correcting blade orientation. All the time emphasizing that it&#8217;s body movement, not the paddle, that rights the kayak.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/GPw_011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1202\" title=\"GPw_011\" src=\"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/GPw_011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/GPw_011.jpg 640w, https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/GPw_011-300x82.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOffering encouragement every step of the way, by the end of the morning sessions she had most folks rolling using their skinny Greenland paddles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/GPw_009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1203\" title=\"GPw_009\" src=\"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/GPw_009.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/GPw_009.jpg 640w, https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/GPw_009-300x126.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following the rolling classes the group worked on paddling skills and discovered that while the skinny paddle is easy on the shoulders it can still get your kayak really moving and turning. Look for a full report on the class in the next issue of the NACK Newsletter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alison was the first international woman to compete in all nine events at the 2006 Greenland National Kayak Championship and she medaled in eight of them.\u00a0 You can check out her rolling video on YouTube. Alison in not only a talented competitor, she is a patient and insightful instructor. Working directly with each individual, she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1211,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}