Taking it all into consideration
Love’s a game I never win.
I’ve been in very simil’r situations,
Again and again and again.
- macca

To keep your kayak involved in daily life year around in the frozen tundra you certainly have to be creative.  So yesterday we followed up a day of kayak sledding with a day at the pool.  Pool practice can get pretty boring as well if you don’t find new ways to play with your kayak.  Last week, inspired by forgetting my nose plugs I spent an evening practicing rolls while holding my nose.  What started off as a joke, became quite a challenge!  Yesterday after spending about 2 hours on pure rolling practice, Gryphon joined me for some on the deck fun.  We started off sitting together on the tail of the kayak. Slowly I moved from the tail up to the bow, sat cross-legged and worked on keeping my balance while he worked his way up to the cockpit and back. When you practice you can certainly set up a strict regimen and work through each skill hour by hour, but if you spend as much time in the water as I do it can get pretty damn boring over time.  Finding new silly ways to play not only help you build up your skills, but keep you at it as well. Now if you think I’m a bit over dressed that’s fine. . We’ll leave it to Freya to go to the other end of the spectrum.