{"id":645,"date":"2009-11-01T10:35:02","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T17:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/?p=645"},"modified":"2009-11-01T10:35:02","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T17:35:02","slug":"update-on-the-hand-roll-whiz-kid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/other-stuff\/update-on-the-hand-roll-whiz-kid\/","title":{"rendered":"Update On the Hand Roll Whiz Kid"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_647\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-647\" style=\"width: 185px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-647 \" title=\"stephenp2\" src=\"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/stephenp2.jpg\" alt=\"Self-taught and apparently unstoppable.\" width=\"185\" height=\"175\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-647\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Self-taught and unstoppable.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You might recall that a few months ago I <a href=\"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/paddle-trips\/more-fun-times-kayaking-the-skykomish-river\/\">posted about Stephen P<\/a>., who joined us on a Class III Skykomish run after having done just a couple Class I-II runs before that, and who amazed us all by\u00a0having a self-taught roll that turned out to be a really good hand roll (he would just ignore his paddle or toss it completely.)<\/p>\n<p>Well, about a month ago when the Sky was still pretty low I was getting out at the Split Rock take-out when I thought I saw a familiar face pulling up and there was Stephen, getting ready to do laps of Boulder Drop with a friend.\u00a0 It totally cracked me up because I asked him what lines he had been taking, Airplane Turn or through the Needle, and he just goes, &#8216;Umm, I don&#8217;t really know the names, I&#8217;ve just been going around that one big rock and past that other one&#8230;&#8217;\u00a0 With all the analyzing and sweating that most people (myself included) do over that rapid I just love hearing that someone simply shleps down there and runs it.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, thumbs up to Stephen, he&#8217;s apparently progressing at the speed of light.\u00a0 I think he&#8217;s even\u00a0finally taught himself a paddle roll. ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might recall that a few months ago I posted about Stephen P., who joined us on a Class III Skykomish run after having done just a couple Class I-II runs before that, and who amazed us all by\u00a0having a self-taught roll that turned out to be a really good hand roll (he would just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[81,80,105],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ireneskayakingblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}