Rescues and Rolls

The San Diego Kayak Club hosted a Rescue and Roll Class led by Jen Kleck from Aqua Adventures. Some 26 paddlers turned out for this event. There were the usual suspects, Jane, Jay, Bob, Mike, Jon, Mike B., and Teresa. After warming up by playing scoop the item from the water, we made our way to Marnier's Cove. We first worked on some T-rescues, some of us work on some rolls. I wasn't planning on doing too much since I had not paddled in a few week. But Jen had a free moment, so I did some basic high braces, then she watched a few rolls. What was nice was I pulled off some regular rolls. Yeah.

The water was not too bad. We wrapped up the day with a T-rescue race. In teams of three, one paddler would be 20 yards away, capsize, then paddler 2 would sprint out and rescue that paddler, then they would capsize, while the rescued paddler would sprint back to the shore to tag the final paddler, who would race out to rescue the other paddler. Quite fun, although our team was rigged with Teresa and Jon and myself....

The final activity was a mass capsize. Some tried some modified T-rescues. I tried a few reentry and rolls, but they were not happening today. I decided to try a paddle float re-entry. It went quite fast once I inflated the float.

Back at the shop, we celebrated Jay's birthday. All in all quite a fun day to be back on the water.