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Tag Archive: Injury

01
Mar

Redemption

The story: Three years ago, I, a lowly fresher, completely new to kayaking, decided to step up to a relatively low run of the falls of Dochart. Safety was set and everyone on the river that day was fully prepared to fish me out if I, as expected, swam out of the hole under the …

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04
Jan

On Kayaking After a Life Changing Injury

The details don’t matter so much about the series of events that led up to my injury. We were at a lake, there was a sandbank, I dove, and then for me, there was darkness. What does matter in this story is that I was 14, I was paralysed from the chest down, and I …

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17
Jun

Fear(Not)

I have always thought that a little fear is a healthy thing to have, it can keep you safe and can keep you sharp. But sometimes I think that fear sounds its loudest alarms when you are about to do something uncertain, something that’s going to make you uncomfortable. More often than not we find …

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