Hyvä juttu koskimelonnan henkisestä puolesta

[Jori Hämäläinen]

http://adrian.playak.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=65&Itemid=5

Kayak is one of the great head games, when things go wrong you have to deal with oxygen starvation, the brain’s most precious resource, and boy, the brain gets worried when it’s not getting it. And it will let you know about it through the panic response.

Fear leads to panic, and panic and kayaking don’t mix. When boating at the edge of your ability, you will be scared, no way around that, it’s the way it should be. The trick is to keep that fear from becoming panic. And to be able to control fear you have to practice being scared.

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If you are uncomfortable under water, then spend more time underwater, see how long you can hold out before rolling up and try to extend this period. The alarm bell starts to go off as soon as you go over in the early stages of kayaking, then after a bit of practice and a couple of hundred rolls to show the brain that there is hope it will give you more and more time before it demands to breath.