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After the surfrider event, hightlighting how dirty the Willamette is , theDave and I spent some time playing around the flat water dock.  Not advised as the water is nasty and leaves a pungent chemical smell on all your boating equipment. theDave gave a nice demo of how to hop up onto the dock without getting out of his boat. This move is also good practice for learning to bow stall. He was also practicing his back deck rolls. I was trying to improve my flat water cartwheels.

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If you watch the video, you’ll see that i dont have enough edge dropped for my bow portion of the cartwheel and so i cant get vertical on the front end, and end up burying the bow just a couple of inches. The stern seemed to be okay. I may try moving the seat forward a bit and see if this helps…im guessing its my body position thats wrong tho and not the seat position. I’ll keep practicing…

I cant wait for this weekend. Grace, Megi and myself are heading to the Teiton for a course with Christie Glissmeyer and Heather Herbeck. Should be fun and very educational.