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David
"DJ" Jeremiason
DJ
founded the Paddle Folk kayak club and has been guiding kayak
trips for 9 years. You'll find him on the water most every day
of the summer teaching kids to kayak at Clearwater
Forest which is a camp & conference center in the Brainerd
Lakes area. Kayaking has taken him to some amazing destinations
including the Apostle Islands and North Shore of Lake Superior,
the Yucatan in Mexico, North Sea of Sweden, Puerto Rico, the Inside
Passage of Alaska and countless bodies of water around the Midwest.
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We
welcome two new instructors to Paddle Folk!
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Martha
Leisch
Martha was drawn into
kayaking without knowing how this sport was going to change her.
She starting by learning the basics in a pool and a few months later
began a job with Ascending Adventures as a guide in the Apostle
Islands in 2007. Martha was scared out of her mind the first time
she paddled on Lake Superior in 2-3 foot waves, needless to say,
she survived and was hooked! Martha ended up guiding for Ascending
Adventures for three summers and volunteered as a guide with the
College of St. Scholasticas Outdoor Pursuit program for two
years. She realized that paddling had a unique ability to build
confidence, relationships and personal strength like nothing else
that she had ventured in before.
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Kevin
Shangle
Kevin
started kayaking in 2007 when he was hired as a guide for Ascending
Adventures. He spent three summers with Ascending Adventures and
another summer as a whitewater instructor with Black Mountain Expeditions
in North Carolina. Recently, he has become interested in Greenland
style paddling and technique. Following some of the tradition of
Inuit paddlers, Kevin has learned how to carve Greenland paddles
and begun to embark on the long list of Greenland rolls.
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