A while back I bought myself a kayak. I’ve been having trouble walking. I determined that what I needed was to start paddling again. These are my first tentative steps back on the water after a break of over 25 years. There was a time when I was a 5* paddler and BCU Senior Instructor (white water), that I would paddle several times a week regularly on grade 3/4 and teaching. As time went by I simply spent more and more time in the mountains and there was less call for my services as a kayak instructor.
Since I stroked out in ‘18 I’ve been fixated on the idea of getting back on the hill. Every year I got beaten back by one thing or another. Turns out I have cardio vascular disease and it’s been around a while. I’m booked in for Angioplasty (stents) on the 29th of this month. Paddling is going to be the route of my recovery.
It’s also going to feature in my degree course work. I’m off to University in September to study Outdoor Leadership. I also want to help other folk like myself get back to feeling more like men again.
Follow my antics as I use Qigong, Tai Chi and paddling as a rout back to some form of health. I might even be able to trim some of that gut off 😎
I hope this short video of me flailing around like a beached whale gives you some laughs.
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