welshkate

At the end of each session at Spencer’s, when I couldn’t face the attainment and the hole beating anymore, I spent some time working on stern squirts. These are so much fun. While practicing these moves I finally discovered my butt is very valuable asset- this is in addition to knees and core muscles to control edges and balance. Torso rotation is helping a lot- I’m finding the more the wind up, the less I have to work to really sink the stern. When getting vertical i drop the upstream edge a little bit. When the stern catches the undercurrent water, the All Star flies so fast. Jesse had some great advice too- if you are not vertical enough, try doing an Ab-crunch. This really worked. Also, try to really think about driving down the stern and use less paddle – instead focus on utilizing the natural energy from the current. I’ve been trying to throw my arms back to stay in a stern stall, but I can’t really manage more than about 2 seconds right now. I think working that butt a bit more will help…and definitely the boat and outfitting I’m using are, I believe, the best on the market. I’ve never been able to do any of these tricks until I found the All Star. I have included some photos from last night. Here is Jesse in a space Godzilla and me trying to get my stern stall down.