Monday, April 2, 2007

Paddle Like A Girl!!!

Hurray for our first women's weekend. What a great turn out with twenty four women attending our whitewater kayaking clinics with Anna Levesque and myself. It was such a priviledge to have Anna here sharing her passion for the sport and her approach to women's learning styles. Anna's business, Girls At Play, is an entrepreneurial inspiration because by creating emotionally safe environments in clinics they then become avenues for more female participation in the sport as a whole, thereby ensuring new users in the industry and making the sport broader and more assesible to a larger population. Girls At Play is brilliant in its simplicity as well as within the big picture. Anna has started a new forum as a resource for women paddlers. This forum is an opportunity to post reviews of gear, trips, and instruction. Also, you can post your ideas and comments in the general forum or ask an expert female boater how to improve your technique. Check it out at http://www.watergirlsatplay.com/forums/
Here are some photos from the intro, playboating and rolling clinics.













It is finally spring! Don't forget to go outside.