The eight weeks of two-hour Sunday pool sessions at Suffolk Community College has ended this past Sunday.\u00a0 Ann did a fantastic job of organizing it.\u00a0 All the members went out of their way to help one another, including kayak unloading and loading from and to the cars, and carrying them in and out of both the recreation building and the pool area.\u00a0 Steve brought his short whitewater kayak on several occasions to loan to other members.\u00a0 Both he & John seemed to take great pride in offering instruction for helping new members -including me-along.\u00a0 Most members practiced rolling, various types of rescues including the heel hook, getting back into their own kayak with the straddle or cowboy style method , as well as various other stokes, sweeps and carries of a swimmer they “rescued.”\u00a0 Before the sessions, most members could roll, and just worked on making it more “bomb proof.”\u00a0 Some members -including me- took a couple of lessons to learn or improve the rolling.\u00a0 Several members at first practiced rolling with the paddle float and improved to rolling without it.\u00a0 Dara, Matt, Alex and I finally, all successfully accomplished this somewhat elusive challenge.\u00a0 Dara could roll before, but only if someone was spotting her.\u00a0 For us other three, I think it was only in our dreams. \u00a0This was peer practice, minus the cold water and jelly fish.\u00a0 I’m already looking forward to next winter’s sessions.<\/p>\n
Bob H<\/p>\n
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