Re: [Paddlewise] swimming pool accident

From: Jochen Grikschat <grikschat_at_surfeu.de>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 09:33:06 +0100
When I was playing canoe polo, we played often in pools and during the
winter we always had training in a large (non wave) pool.
We always kept our helmets and pfd´s on. Canoe polo ist just a game and
training is just fun (most of the time), but it happens SO fast you get a
paddle or ball on the head or bumb with your body on other boats or on pool
edges aso....
Most injuries only happen without helmet or pfd. So it´s a policy to put
them on, all the time.
OK, while training some techniques (without the possibility of diect
contact) we paddle without helmet.
(I stopped canoe polo 1,5 years ago, but the others still do it.)

Pool training is GREAT. We got an outside pool with wave machine here also,
but during sommer there´s no chance get in with boats.

bye
Jochen

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