Welcome to August 

Welcome to August with its rain and winds…

Peter helmed Artemis Phyllis with his usual skill and confidence while a crew of stalwart paddlers braved the wet and windy conditions with him. With clear explanations and instructions he took the crew through some stroke ‘skill building’ and ‘stamina pyramids’ followed by exercises around different race start options such as a ‘rolling’ race start. Paddlers also practiced boat manouvering for the race start moving the boat forwards and backwards and drawing left and right to maintain a race start position on the line. The session finished with a couple of 500 metre set pieces. Peter had to work hard to find calmer water but as we came into the slipway to finish the wind dropped and the rain stopped.