The course starts of at land, he goes really in to detail about everything, I now know the different models of kayaks, paddles, holes in the kayak to get in to it, appliances to the kayak, different maos of the sea...needles to say I felt as though I was back in school and my whole body screamed noooooo...until I realized that there will not be a test on this, no one will require me to write a 5000 words paper on this, I do not need to find any recent research or be critically assessing what he is saying...if I want to I can even stop listening and don't give a sh**t at all. It was such a relief to realize that, not so fun to realize that I am suffering from a post traumatic stress disorder because of my last semester though...
Anyway the course goes on and after a very long time on the beach it is time to finally jump into the kayak and try it out in the ocean. It is exhausting!!
While paddling my friend, even have time to look at the nice rocks sticking out from the ocean. I'm sweating like a pig, gasping for air trying not to steer my kayak right into the rocks. Our instructor then thinks it is time for us to start using the rudder (I have by then thought that we have been using it all the time!!) I put it in to the water and all of a sudden I'm just spinning, round and around:
- Press the right pedal
- The right pedal!
- Now left, no not so much
- Right again
My instructor had a busy time with me, he said that I was one of the first who said that it was easier without a rudder...
So moving on in the course it is time for the "friend rescue", one of us falls into the water, the other one holds on to the kayak so that the friend can jump into it again, needless to say me and my friend was not really a success, when trying to rescue my friend I tipped over as well. She was better at it though.
So it all worked out for the best, my friend will be terrified of tipping over the kayak next time we will go out, while I can be sure she will be able to rescue me :)
Me
My friend
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