CReW Youth Challenge Kayak Program

This is Cheryl,
The youth center stuff was awesome the past 2 days. Here’s an update while I take a break at work!

Julie can mostly one hand roll and she’s got an awesome back-deck roll now (she learned it on her first try basically!) – definitely a huge improvement to just a few weeks ago (she’s much happier on the water now too).

Mel (the lil one in the fun 1.1/2) is still working on her roll – she’s always almost has it!! We think the issue yesterday though was that her kayak was FULL of water. She’s definitely very determined though, she must have tried rolling for half of the class non-stop! She’s also eager to try new things like double pumps

Justin’s roll is definitely getting solid – he’s confident on trying his roll without having someone right there to t-resue now too.

Sean was able to roll with Sylvie just watching.

Maude can back-deck roll

Bray is getting over fears! (seaweed lol!)

There’s definitely a huge improvement in all the kids which is awesome! There definitely offering 20x more pointers now to help everyone – the kids that can roll are helping those that can’t.

The highlight would have to be though when Sylvie had everyone learn how to save/be saved when you’ve done a wet exit. You can definitely see the group come together at that point…and you can hear the laughter all over the river!