Hey Everyone,
I’m checking in to tell you about a special time of day. The time of day I get to see all my athletes grumpy and half awake! Morning WORKOUT!!!! Today is Safety Thursday. This day’s workouts are dedicated every week to improving our groups safety skills. This morning we woke up at 7:30 like everyday and gathered up to talk about throw rope re-throws. A re-throw is used when you miss someone with your first throw and need to throw again. Since everyone misses from time to time this is a super important skill to have on the river. What we did is set up an obstacle course where people had to make a first throw with a ready throw bag and then after the throw was finished the had to recoil and move to another station before throwing. The reason for this is because if you miss your throw on the river your target will continue to move downstream with the current. Therefore you would have to continue to move downstream on shore to be within range for your re-throw. After a practice run, we had a little morning competition to see who could do it the fastest! Go Huge! Go Eric Hill for taking first place with 13 seconds!
Enjoy the photos,
Coach Tino Specht
Good Morning Huge Experiences! hahahaha
Tino talking about how to go through the obstacle course!
Tino showing how to throw and then recoil!
Hayley about to toss her rethrow!
Clay mid throw!
Jordan directing some shots for his video class assignment!
Lorenzo doing the fastest lap yet with his recoil, schooling the young ones!!!
Jason trying catching someones rethrow!
Tino pushing Zoe through the course and making distractions so she can get used to doing this in a hectic situation!
Almost to the finish line!
Lorenzo the Red Gorilla setting the record time for the course with a blazing 12 seconds!
