Rolling instructor course and building class
This week has been busy and a lot of people has visited the Chapel in Vestfossen. We held the first rolling instructor course of the year and we hope to fill up another one in September. Also the second building class of the year has come to an end. Three iqyaks and four greenland qajaqs has moved out of the workshop to both Norway and the Netherlands. Amongst the participants were Jolanda from the Netherland who shoots some amazing photos. We share a couple of those here.
Rolling instructor course
Jannie did her second rolling instructor course here in Vestfossen. She is a very skilled and experienced coach. We had a great day of sharing knowledge, working with teaching how to roll at Sundhaugen, Fiskumvannet. The perfect little spot for this kind of activity. Sheltered with shallow water. 12 people attended the class and seven more people came to join us as students for the trainees in the afternoon. The weather was perfect even though the water was still a little cold.
We worked all day on the water with various methods for teaching rolls. In the afternoon we had students coming to learn from the instructors on the course. It all worked very nicely and we are doing a new course in September but here we add an extra evening with a theory class first. Three people came all the way from Denmark and we also enjoyed the company of Jon David in our opinion one of the best on rolls and rope gymnastics in the world.
Qajaq building
The qajaq building course went very well. 8 exhausting and joyful days came to an end this Saturday. The proud builders are from left: Wicher, Tor, Jan, Kjell, Jolanda, Anders, Christer, Frank, Henrik and Jan Ole.
This extremely cool photo was taken by Jannie :)!
