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The Kalamazoo Sessions have been off to a grand start. Attendance has been awesome with 12-15 people for each session. Many thanks to Ken Nesbitt and the Great Lakes Adventure Club for the enthusiastic support of Lee’s and Go Kayak Now! A pool is often a difficult place to work on strokes. Forward strokes in a [...] Jeff Allen co-owner of Sea Kayaking Cornwall visited this year to instruct and speak. Jeff came a day early to give an instructor update for the WMCKA instructional staff. The topic this year was incident management. Jeff has written a series of articles for Ocean Paddler magazine. Jeff is also writing a book on the [...]
This is Alec Bloyd Peshkin playing a very compliant and skilled victim for a T-rescue demonstration. The rescuer approaches cautiously at first to make sure the victim isn’t panicked. Then the rescuer has the victim move to the stern of his kayak while he rights, then [...] In the past few weeks we’ve been discussing rescues and various techniques for self-rescue. We’ve had some good discussion both here and on the two bigger community message boards Qajaqusa.org and Paddling.net about what will and won’t work for rescuing a sea kayak and why. During this discussion I put forth the theory that a [...] Sea Kayaking Rescues really have a lot of variation on the theme of getting a victim back in their kayak. The basic premise is that with the aid of a paddling partner, the victim can have an empty sea kayak and scramble back inside. There have been several new videos of variations on the t-rescue [...] Sea Kayaking Lake Michigan in the Gales of November My proposed trip of paddling from Port Sheldon to Saugatuck was evaluated and quickly adjusted on Saturday. The forecast was calling for winds up to 30 knots. Waves were expected to be between 6-10 feet, building to 12 feet. I had a rather large invite list that [...] Compulsory, like latin or greek to a traditional classic education, I went back to get my 3 star. I speak as if I did it with the thought I dropped something on the pavement and went back for it. Not sure. |
            
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