JackieOnassis

The first official training session for ladies K1 was held last Sunday at the Tuam hole. A cold snowy day with high water levels made for an interesting session. Shane Flaherty was there to offer us helpful advice and constructive coaching in between the ice cream headaches! All three of us were focusing on particular things. Siobhan was spending time refining her split wheel. Also cartwheels. Towards the end she decided to join in the looping fun and was giving it lots in spite of the cold and her ancient cag! I spent a lot of time focusing on loops with varying degrees of success but I certainly was enjoying a lot of air time. I just purchased an over thruster and I was already noticing the difference it was making to my paddling. I was also working on cartwheels which were amusing as the hole was so fast that I wasn’t always leading with my head. I also need to work on going both ways and this will definitely be a focus for future sessions Kim was also working on loops, cartwheels splits and even at one stage was getting adventurous with trying phonics monkeys.  The best thing for me about the session was getting together as a team and working on things together. We were all encouraging each other, and with structured coaching we were pushing ourselves a lot more than the usual lazy session you may have for fun! A special thanks to Shane for excellent coaching. This was followed up with individual written reports for us to read at a later stage.