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Playboating on The Ottawa River with Anna Levesque 2024
What an incredible week we had at the Playboating Clinic on the Ottawa River! 🌊 From nailing those spins to building confidence with every attempt, each participant pushed their limits and embraced the thrill of learning new skills. We had the perfect blend of expert coaching, supportive community, and some of the best playboating features in the world.
Daily video reviews helped everyone track their progress, and it was amazing to see the transformation in both skill and mindset. By the end of the week, paddlers were taking on challenges they never thought possible and leaving with newfound confidence to tackle their home rivers.
Missed out this year? Don’t worry-next year’s Playboating Clinic is already in the works! Mark your calendars and get ready to join us for another unforgettable adventure on the Ottawa River August 10th - 17th 2025. Spots fill up fast, so stay tuned for registration details and be part of the action in 2025!
#Playboating #OttawaRiver #JoinUsNextYear #PaddleWithConfidence
Daily video reviews helped everyone track their progress, and it was amazing to see the transformation in both skill and mindset. By the end of the week, paddlers were taking on challenges they never thought possible and leaving with newfound confidence to tackle their home rivers.
Missed out this year? Don’t worry-next year’s Playboating Clinic is already in the works! Mark your calendars and get ready to join us for another unforgettable adventure on the Ottawa River August 10th - 17th 2025. Spots fill up fast, so stay tuned for registration details and be part of the action in 2025!
#Playboating #OttawaRiver #JoinUsNextYear #PaddleWithConfidence
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Alternate Nostril Breathing- Ayurveda with Anna Levesque
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Mindful breathing nourishes our cells with prana, breaks up our thought patterns, and helps us to manage stress. There are many different breath exercises in the yogic tradition, and some of them require years of study and practice under a competent teacher. Here, we are talking about alternate nostril breathing, a simple technique that can a good starting point to experience effective breathin...
The Discomfort Zone Podcast with Anna Levesque | Ep 30 Adam Herzog
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The Discomfort Zone Podcast with Anna Levesque | Ep 29 with Eleanor Knight
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Free Webinar with Anna Levesque: Rolling Myths Busted Recording
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Let's get to the root causes of why your kayak roll isn't working, and how it can be effective. Cues like 'keep your head down' aren't actually helpful. In this webinar we'll bust the myths and go over sweep roll technique that works. This recording is a part my series of Free Monthly Webinars, typically these recording are only available to those a part of my exclusive Mind Body Paddle Communi...
The Discomfort Zone Podcast with Anna Levesque | Ep 28 with Shane Benedict
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The Discomfort Zone Podcast with Anna Levesque | Ep 28 with Shane Benedict on Building Confidence with Hard Moves in Easy Water Shane Benedict, co-founder of Liquid Logic Kayaks, is one of the most confident paddlers that I know, and in this conversation he shares how he cultivated that confidence, and has sustained it for 40 years on the water. He also talks about his passion for designing kay...
Find Your Flow 2024: Class II-III Week of Rivers, Yoga and Mindset with Anna Levesque
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Find Your Flow, Embrace Your Best Life Join Anna’s Intensive Find Your Flow Week and uncover the confident paddler within you. - Gain increased courage and confidence both on and off the water. - Master key skills in reading water, river running, surfing, and rolling. - Engage in inspiring group discussions and share mindset strategies for whitewater paddling. - Enhance self-awareness in mind, ...
The Discomfort Zone Podcast with Anna Levesque | Episode #26 with Benny Marr
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The Discomfort Zone with Anna Levesque | Ep: 25 with Brenna Kelleher
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The Discomfort Zone with Anna Levesque | Ep: 25 with Brenna Kelleheron performance coaching and shifting discomfort zones Brenna Keller, a top PSIA ski instructor and guide, dives into the interplay between fear and excitement, highlighting how mindset can help achieve a flow state. .She explains how fear, when managed properly, can enhance performance. The conversation also examines the discom...
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🚁✨ New Episode Alert! ✨🚁 Join us on The Discomfort Zone with Anna Levesque as we chat with helicopter air ambulance pilot Holley Gardel! Holley reveals how to transform negative feelings into powerful cues for peak performance. 🌟 Discover the power of mental performance training, its impact beyond elite athletes, and the importance of preparation, support, and celebrating small victories. 🎯 Hol...
The Discomfort Zone Podcast with Anna Levesque | Episode #23 with Abby Holcombe
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Abby Holcombe, a world champion kayaker who started paddling while traveling the world with her parents in their Winnebago van, shares her strategies for overcoming fear and building confidence while pushing her limits. Abby tells the story of running the Grand Canyon at the age of 12, and how that trip taught her the value of breaking challenges into smaller pieces, and honoring her feelings, ...
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Roll With Anna: Get Three Weeks of Exclusive "Rolling" Videos!
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Just saw this. Thx. I’ve previously dislocated my shoulder, is this something I need to be careful with when attempting to roll?
Great stuff. One thought that I'd picked up from another video is also to think of the upstream flow as being like a boof where one keeps the bow high, and sometimes practice by wiping ones bow over a rock, etc (get the bow round, past, over, ..). One of many potentially useful visualisations;-)
I've been kayaking since I was 12 years old and got my first combat roll when I was 15 (they didn't teach rolls as early in the learning process in the 90's). I'm in my 40's now. I took a few year break in my 30's then eventually came back to whitewater and such via private rafting trips but also have been getting back in a kayak a few times a year. I've taught a bunch of people how to roll over the years, but I've really been struggling to get mine back and reluable after being away and have been very frustrated by that and feel like I'm "survival boating" and always scared of flipping. I used to be a Class V boater and had a pretty solid roll and think I'm at least a Class IV boater these days except for the fact that my roll is unreliable. I do a sweep roll as well, but I always seem to come up laying back on the deck no matter what I do and how much I focus on trying to stay centered on the kayak. Its double trouble since laying back that far can kind of dislodge my hips form the hip pads so the hip snap is less effective. I probably need to get with an instructor to iron this out, but just curious if you might have any insight into what might be happening and any pointers to try out. I really want to kayak a lot more and can feel my skills coming back every time I get in a kayak and tend to be relatively comfortable in up to Class IV whitewater(but have been focusing on Class II/III and building skills/confidence back), but tend to default back to my raft/cataraft because of the likelyhood of swimming if I do flip in my kayak. I wouldn't say I'm scared of swimming necessarily, but more frustrated and embarrassed and it sucks having to get everything to shore and empty the boat and all that.
I just want to say this is my favorite podcast. I have a unique job training service dogs and actually mostly teaching people with disabilities to train their own service dogs. Most of my clients have some type of anxiety so helping people to step into and hover around their discomfort zone is a major part of my job and I LOVE it. AND I’ve always been a challenge seeker and just started whitewater in the spring of last year. So listening to this just combines some of my passions. Keep it going!
Great webinar, start to finish. One or two instructors told our group 'forget the hip snap, instead push on the opposite (left) foot.' Pulling down is my biggest fault when stressed. I really need to follow the blade with my eyes. Many still say to lean forward, the biggest myth that delayed my roll progression. Eric Jackson's recent roll series, the students come up flat against the back deck. By the time you're on the back deck, youre upright. For EJ, it's the fastest, safest. Combat roll in heavy rapids and shallow, rocky rivers are still a big challenge. You'll have to work on your rock roll, which feels a lot different than water. IMO, fitness is VERY under-represented in WW kayaking instructional videos. Core strength and mobility, yoga stretching, cardio, myo-fascial massage, Thai stretching, floor pilates. At $120, TRX is the best value in fitness equipment. Never discount the value of flatwater stroke practice and drills.
Beautiful roll❤
Thank you
you are awesome
Hello Anna, Thank you for the video and sharing problems with the roll. I've also a dominat right side. This season I had problems on my left side. I guess that I've too much tension in my opposite hip. My head comes up first, than I (nearly) fail. What do you do to consciously relaease the opposite hip? Is there a trick? Sorry I didn't get it from the video. Warm greetings from Munich! 🥨 René
How does one reconcile training oneself to relax via breath and breathing when you are underwater (especially unexpectedly) and don’t have the ability to take a couple deep breaths?
You have a knack for explaining without going overboard and talking needlessly. Other channels ramble on too much or leave me mystified. Keep up the excellent vids! I'm going to share them with a kayak group I recently joined.
Thanks for the feedback and for sharing the videos! Glad you find them helpful!
Thank you for stressing rotation of the body before planting the paddle. Been missing that piece. Now to put it to practice. Cheers!
Great video! Very helpfull 🙏thanks
Good info. - here’s a comment for the algo. 👍
That's great thanks - got it. I do wonder if I can do it for real though without the time to set up properly, or if it rolls the other way etc😮 Time will tell...
Always take the time to set up properly, even in the middle of a rapid. Rushing will usually lead to a failed roll.
You know you’re getting old when you have to stretch to do a non athletic activity. 💯 That’s not being mean… just true, cuz I’m there too 😂
Very helpful! Thanks! I would like you give some more explanation for position and angle
You only showed 360 full Eskimo rolls. But what about actual combat rolls where you get flipped and have to roll up on the same side?
I think a lot of the problems you are seeing manifest themselves are the result of 50,000 different you tube channels demonstrating the 30,000 variants of this, and other strokes, without the emphasis on the basics of the stroke and then the 30,000 ever so slight variants. It's also being mixed up between whitewater and sea kayaking.
I have a hydro phobia hence reason I started kayaking last fall 2023 i have not attempted the roll yet& i'm glad I found your video! My intuition was telling me that I was in for a real mental game with this move dry suit a sox for the yqk and warmer weather & someone there to assist i spend two times a day from 1hr to 6hrs & as long as 12hrs on or next to the river seeing a harbor seal & a sealion&her pup for past two months didn't help for the first month and the beavers who are very territorial and aggressive and attack the yak at night or any boat for that matter made me question why i was out there so i say off the water at night for now none of this slowed me down made me spend even more time on the snoq. River so to pull this roll thing off is going to be a challenge for me for sure just being on the water scares the fucking hell out of me so being under water in a yak is going to be interesting to say the least ! I mentioned that i have a phobia of deep or murky waters and drowned when I was 5yrs old in a swimming pool drowning was pleasant and peaceful not scary at all it's when your slammed back into the body after being Ressessatated! That's the traumatizing part! I'm now 50 and don't want to carry this damn phobia into the next life because it's from a past life already. Thank you so much for this helpful & informative video! Every thing happens for a reason weather one believes in it or not it dose! Lovelight lightlove & safe water work& play for every one!
I don't know if it's device or what? But i'm 30 seconds into rhis video and i'm not getting any movement on the screen
Simple. Easy to follow steps. Thanks for sharing.
So well described. Just 5 minutes in but it's obvious that you both know what you're doing and are keen to communicate it.
Working to twist instead of tucking may be a difference maker.
I like your video, however I cannot find the link to subscribe.
Ann I would like to have a conversation with you! As you know I have over come some very literal‘Seth defying’ experiences and would love to share. Lincoln
‘Ann’ should be Anna😉
Encouraged by listening to your advice. Thank you.
You're welcome, and glad to hear it!
Baby Safe!
Great video! Any thoughts on pool or dry land things to practice boofs?
Most excellent! Is there a boys version of this anywhere?
Drinking lemon water?? why? explain please 😊
According to Ayurveda, it's hydrating, helps to stimulate digestion (sour taste is heating), is a gentle daily cleanser and has a scraping effect on the body. health.clevelandclinic.org/7-reasons-to-start-your-day-with-lemon-water-infographic
Thanks 🙏😌🤍
So excited to have opportunity to hear from others about management of the discomfort zone. The principles apply in both paddling the river and in everyday life throughout our unpredictable life journey. Thank you for offering these conversations.
Greetings from South Africa. As a 63 year old sea kayaker, grade 3 whitewater kayaker and river kayaker, flat and moving water kayaker, i look forward to your insight into how we can learn from going to our discomfort zone. Thank you for your effort and willingness to share. Much appreciated
Thank you!
Thank you❤
Bravo, Anna! I love that you step outside of your comfort zone to offer your valuable and highly honed skills and experiences to those of us who love the sport and seek to improve not only our paddling skills , but health awareness too.
Super excited about this! Really appreciate what you bring to the paddling community. I am a sea kayaker and find that a lot of your coaching crosses disciplines. Thank you!
Thank you so much for your support!
Such a beautiful river, wish I could go back so bad!
Can you help with some exercises
A perfect run!!
Well done to you all, you are inspiring me🎉 Thank you for sharing your trip experience, enjoyment commentary & successes. You can truly feel & do anything within a supportive network. Super video.. I'm far away in chilly England here but wishing I was there with you! Cheers to you, your successes and playfulness. Beautiful, amazing 👏 ❤
Thank you for your 30 minutes session. It’s felt good after 2 days of paddling. I like the way you make yoga poses accessible to beginners. Great sequence 💙
Glad it was helplful!
Great Video 🙂 Pitty it is not in Europe,I am searching for such course...
What are they going to do one for the men?
Mentally I just focus on being upright but pretty good at waiting and feeling the water upside down! I'm going to try the relaxing of the opposite hip bit next time I get a chance as I'm a terrible head lifter even if I normally roll successfully.
How did trying that go for you?
Awesome. What kind of kayak is that?