On Water

Water can be soft and gentle like air. When you float or paddle on it can sometimes feel like flying. But water can also be hard and painful. When you dive off a ten-meter platform it can actually hurt you like hitting a concrete wall.   This is what makes this element so fascinating because when pressure is applied on it, forces always counteract that pressure. For many water related activities such as swimming, kayaking or rowing (just to name a few), it takes an incredible tactile or sensory ability to feel and understand how the water behaves when applying various pressures with palms, paddles, oars or other equipment at various angles and at various water currents, air winds, temperatures or other environmental factors. Finding the feel of the water Feeling the water, holding it, squeezing it or however you want to call it, describes an almost magical ability to understand how to apply pressure on the water, use the counteracting force in the most productive way, gain traction and