Joe's Valley Raw Footage

A coach guides paddlers Christy and Kelly through technical whitewater moves at Joe's Valley, calling out cues for eddy turns, boofs, and hand-rolls as they navigate rocks and drops. Real-time corrections, capsizes, and first-time attempts on challenging water show the learning process in action.
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Christy, you lead. Kelly, right down the middle, or left, middle left. Kelly, keep— or Christy, keep an eye out for Kelly, okay? Okay, well, she'll be in a good safety spot. You're okay to do whatever. Find an eddy. Eddie out right there. That's the one thing you have to— she's never creaked before at all, okay? And this is very much creaking at this level. Stay straight. Let your boat— is pretty skinny. So it'll slide really nice over those rocks. You did fine in there though. All right, Kelly, we're hitting every eddy, you and me. Right here, Kelly. Over, Kelly, all the way over, and then come back. Switch that edge, switch the edge again, get in here. Kellie, just pretend this is something that's like ridiculously easy. You're just like, oh cool, but go for it, you know, hit the move exactly. That's true, that's true. All right, hit the eddy over here on the right. Good. All right, Kelly, come on up. Watch out for this rock right here. Lean into it. Pedal. Good. I know, I hit it. Sorry, I'm paying too much attention to you. Okay, now I just— over here. Great, Kelly! Get in there, get in there, paddle! All right, okay, let's hit eddies. I don't know what's up above, but I see a drop. Okay, we're gonna try to hit the eddy on the left over there. See it? Turn around, get all the way in. Good, Kelly. All right, not sure what to do here. Chrissy, go ahead and scout it. Go ahead and do it. Okay, can you see what you want to do? It looks like you can drop anywhere. Okay, I'm gonna try to do a line. If I'm good, then follow me. Good line. All right, come on in, Kelly. Great, Kelly. That fun, huh? All right, just a little bit of— just a little boogie water. Okay, we're gonna catch eddies here. We gotta scout. Okay, stay left, then go right. Or no, I'm sorry, eddy out left. Eddie out right. Behind the rock. All right, Kelly, pretty straightforward. Go ahead, get away, get away from there, get left. Go, Chris! Go, Chris! Catch her! Oh, boof it right there, you said? Oh, this is the left and right that you scouted. All right, how's the film going? Okay, Kelly, you see how slow it is? You got a lot of time to think. This will be barely faster, but not much. We're good. All right, Kelly, you're behind me. Woo! All right, Callie, just stop. Kellie, you need to stop. How do we get in there? An iron seemed to make it through okay. Follow me, follow me. Okay, just be awake. Kelly, get out of your boat! Good job, Kelly! Hold it, hold it, hold it! Get to the side! Stay awake, Kelly! Here's your paddle, here's your paddle! Yes, Kelly, you're awesome! Eddie out! Eddie freaking out! Kelly! Good, Kelly! Good, Kelly! Can you eddy out? Eddy, eddy, eddy! Okay, you're only gonna do this once, right? That's the hardest move of the day. Go forward, go forward, paddle forward, don't— go! Okay, you go. Just calm down, calm down. Okay, good, good, good. You hit your head?
I hit it like 8 times.
Hard?
Yeah.
A little dizzy?
No, I'm fine. Like, I'm okay. I just—
okay, what happened? Did you hit that same rock I did?
Yeah, and it just—
you didn't lean into it.
And so I'm like trying to like grab onto a rock and push myself up. Didn't work.
I was amazed when you're like, boom!
I hand rolled that rock.
You hand rolled in the middle of that? I lost my paddle.
I was like, you know what, hand roll it. I just went upside down.
Chrissy had to bail. I know. She hand rolled at the bottom of that. She went up, down the whole thing upside down, and then hand rolled up. And then I threw her paddle to her and she just went right back into it. It was, it was cool. I was out of my mind. And then rolled, and then she rolled again. Really? Yeah, she got caught under a rock. You're okay, you're okay, Kelly. Just lean into those rocks. Kelly, you got this! Yeah, more space, Christy. Kelly, you're with me. Okay, avoid this. This is a fun run. You would have been just fine coming down. Carve into that guy. Yeah, this is a cool film spot. Yeah. Sure, Dad, it's the same. You're just going to see some of the same. That one move up there I really think was the hardest thing. I didn't see any because that was the one that we couldn't scout from the road. We're like, what does the left channel look like? I don't really know. That'll look good on film, cuz you like appear out of nowhere all of a sudden. All right, let's do it. Keep going. Okay, you're going to come this way, turn around, and cut left behind the rock. Right over here. Woohoo! Great move! Yeah, that one's cool looking. Kelly! Princy, you need to beg Dad this year to buy you a dry sock. Kelly! You what? I don't know the song, but I just said sing and it's your song and it's stuck in my head. That's good. Somebody played it last night and now it's like the last song that we played at night. That's the opening scene on the video. Oh God. All right, come on, Kel. This is so easy now. I know, this is way easy. All right, Kelly, bonus move. Nailed it! See, it's a different type of boating. You have to get used to it. You have to learn to use the rocks and your braces and pushing. Yeah, I've never done anything but rocking. Yep, yep. Yeah, I'm fine. I just— I went up on the thing and it just flipped me. Yeah. Oh, I thought it was just freezing cold. That's my first water. It's my first roll, so You got it, Cal. That's what I tried to do. Watch out for this rock. Boop it, Christy, boop! All right, spread out. Slow down. Go ahead behind the knot, or wherever you want. Yeah, slow down, slow down. That's one way to get through. Go right, go right. Looking good, Cal. Okay, far right. Well, not far right. Hug the— hug the right. Sorry, sorry, Kelly, paddle! Good save, good save, Kel. Sorry, I kind of boom straight at you. It's all right. That's a fun drop. I like that one. That's fun. Oh, angle, angle coming in was bad. You need that 45-degree. They want that carve, remember? Yeah. Oh, sorry. Nope, Christy, that was a ferry. Oh, okay. A what? Yeah. Oh, Kelly, you're doing fantastic. This is your first time on something like this. How's it going? Catching anything? Awesome. Yeah, yeah, this is awesome. This is a lot of fun today. No, there's a lot bigger than that. Yeah, above. Yeah. Are you gonna do it again? Yeah, so right, you stepped up today. You went to another level. Deal. I want you to nail that move. The problem was, Kelly, aside from the fact that, you know, that the reason that everything happened was because we were all too tight in there. And we didn't know what was coming. Yep. How's the boat feeling? Kelly, right here. Eddie, out. Why are we at— did he say to stop? All right, hang on, let me— I'm gonna, I'm gonna check it out. Okay, I'll show you. It's easy, go left. Super easy. It's super, super easy. Nothing there. Okay, Kelly, you're behind me. Lean into the rock. Woo! Good. It's all right. Looked like you did it on purpose and it looked good. I mean, yeah, I meant to do that. What are you talking about? Good. Yeah, just a little. Boop that. That's cool. You missed it. Keep your boat straight. Christy, how do you like the run? The run? You know, it can burn. You're not gonna get stuck in a hole with that thing. That's one thing that I really like about it. Really? You didn't know what was coming. Oh, Christy, I want you to do that. Dude, that was awesome! Boomfetti! Not bad. Wow, Kelly's flying. Kelly's got a fast boat. She has a faster boat than we do. Kelly, your boat's faster than ours. And yeah, I agree. All right, Kelly, right up here. Oh, look at it! What? It's like falling down. I've got 2 minutes of film left. Okay, come on, want the film. Go, Kelly, go! I want Kelly first if possible. It's all right, it's all right. Go on ahead, AJ. Woo! Oh, Kelly, that's an awesome drop! That's the one you were talking about, Kelly! That was awesome! Final 5, boom! I was like, okay, what do I got to do? Did you— what'd you do? Did you just lean into that turn? Oh It's like a— yeah, it's just like a freaking bike or something. Just— that was cool. Yep. Okay, Kelly, ahead of me quick. You what? All right, I got it. Oh, sorry.










