Just curious…
How many of you on P-net regularly attend pool sessions in the winter to stay sharp on your rolls for WW or sea kayaking, or both?
constantly
I go to about 2 pool sessions a week and I also help teach a pool class each week. So far I’ve always come out of winter a stronger roller than I was prior to winter. 
Yep.
About once a week after teaching.
At least once a month
Would happily do 2-3 a month except for January, getting access is the issue. The only month I would back off to once in an ideal world is January. Having gone thru a couple of times of putting boats back up on the car and strapping them down in 15-20 below zero temps, we decided that it would be easier to just work a little harder in March and April.
One of those nights my husband started losing his grip on the boat partway up and it hit his forehead - whereupon his face and jacket were adorned with a stream of blood that froze and made him look like he’d just stepped out of a disaster re-enactment. We made sure not to speed on the way home - couldn’t figure out how we were going to explain that to a local policeman.
Once a month…
And maybe more often this winter.
Weekly
I’ve been doing weekly rolling/practice sessions in the pool at a local Y since the begining of Oct., and plan on doing them again when offered in Feb & March.
Work & Play
I host a class where we teach in a pool (88 degree water is lovely come Jan.) at least once per month and then I go to other regional pool sessions about twice a month to practice and work on my list of skills to improve.
See you on the water,
Marshall
www.the-river-connection.com
Zero
Just for me, pool sessions feel like a definition separating myself from nature. So weirdly enough I put on a mask, hood and silicone and roll during snowstorms. Hey no accounting for individual nuttiness.
Evan
Obviously learning in safe protected and gradual ways afford good things though! For many, even most paddlers until one gets to a certain level losing one’s skill is a real thing so it helps in this reagard as well. After many years I find 20 minutes of praticing brings it back in the spring. However, after quitting for some years it did take me almost a whole season to get it all back! Frequent practice without judgment or pressurs is a gift to be sure.
Rolls?
Aren’t those the things you slathered with butter?
Never done a pool session, was wondering
Hey, for those of you who frequently do pool sessions I was wondering if it is considered ok to bring a full size sea kayak into the pool for such a session. Until this winter I was always a warm water paddler so it was never an issue, but I was thinking that even though pools up here in anchorage have an open kayak night, that it might be bad taste to drag an 18 foot sea kayak into the pool (I’d take up a quarter of the pool from what I can tell). Just wondering, do other people do this?
Jeremy
Depends on the crowd
I attend some where there are nothing but long boats in the pool rolling and rolling and rolling and others where it’s filled with whitewater pods cartwheeling and flipping about. Check with the organizer.
See you on the water,
Marshall
www.the-river-connection.com
local choice of 3 each month, all year
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as sponsored by local club, Victorian Sea Kayak Club (www.vsck.org.au) in various Melbourne pools. Very high emphasis on skills development and practise (or practice up your way) in pool and on the real water.
Former p-netter, Joe Mess, always "rolled in what waters he paddled". Great idea!
Every winter about every 2-3 weeks
I use a local community college pool. This is big enough for sea kayaks. Some folks bring WW boats. It’s a great, safe way to learn new techniques and polish old ones. Most of the people in our club learned how to roll and perfect other skills in these pool sessions. plus, there’s the nice social aspect of helping each other and going out afterward for a meal.
Every winter about every 2-3 weeks
I use a local community college pool. This is big enough for sea kayaks. Some folks bring WW boats. It’s a great, safe way to learn new techniques and polish old ones. Most of the people in our club learned how to roll and perfect other skills in these pool sessions. plus, there’s the nice social aspect of helping each other and going out afterward for a meal.
Talk to the organizer
Some are all sea kayaks. Some are all whitewater kayaks. Some are anything goes.
The ones I’ve gone to they get sore if we bring 12’ whitewater canoes.
Tommy