Kayaking is one of those programs that inspire specific passions, and--therefore--advancing skills. While Master Kayaker Bert Hinkley took a couple of Proctor's competitive paddlers to a whitewater event elsewhere, Eric Viandier organized exercises and games for beginners on Elbow Pond Saturday.
Novice paddles learned different feathering manuevers and worked on straight, balanced runs.
These kids haven't mastered the essential roll by which overturned kayakers right themselves solo, but they successfully executed a drill in which a slap on the hull summons a neighbor to a specific proximity, so the drowning paddler--who has come up for a few breaths by now--has a hand-hold to right him/herself.
Mark, on the right, is the shark in this game. He's catching up to Christopher--who is trying to cross the pond--to ram him, thus turning Christopher into a fellow shark. Mark was very successful.
