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Bit of a trip down memory lane today, or should that be memory river![Laughing :LOL: :LOL:](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
This is the Augsburg canoe slalom course built for the Olympics in 1972, I have been down the course in a C2, that’s a Double Canadian, a bit like a tandem version of the one in the above photo as that is a C1, I will add it was a lot of years ago and I was much younger and quite possibly dafter.
I didn’t say I paddled down though as we spent more time swimming![Face with open mouth :open_mouth: 😮](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f62e.png)
So these two photos are kayaks, double ended paddle as opposed to single for the Canadian C1 and the big difference is that in a Kayak you are sitting but in thh Canadien you are actually kneeling which gives you much greater reach but more difficult to balance,
This was just a training/practice session for an international event next weekend.
This is the Augsburg canoe slalom course built for the Olympics in 1972, I have been down the course in a C2, that’s a Double Canadian, a bit like a tandem version of the one in the above photo as that is a C1, I will add it was a lot of years ago and I was much younger and quite possibly dafter.
I didn’t say I paddled down though as we spent more time swimming
![Face with open mouth :open_mouth: 😮](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f62e.png)
So these two photos are kayaks, double ended paddle as opposed to single for the Canadian C1 and the big difference is that in a Kayak you are sitting but in thh Canadien you are actually kneeling which gives you much greater reach but more difficult to balance,
This was just a training/practice session for an international event next weekend.
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