Before you begin Rafting
- You've got to hire a team of good people, better than you, to help you during the Rafting path.
- You've got to trust in these team.
- A Rafting Instructor will teach you what you have to do when things goes well and also during the bad times.
- But even if know what to do and you have a good leader, he can fall and he will need your support to stand up and come to the boat again.
When you are on the boat with your team
- You have to follow the leader. He is seating behind you and in the highest place to see everything and watch his team, and he will say what you have to do. One important thing is that seating in the top is a dangerous place, it is the place where is more easy to fall.
- The Leader have more experience than you, he already did this a lot of times before you, and he will help you during the journey.
- When you start the journey you don't know anything, so you will fear a lot, ask a lot, and have this kind of feeling: "what Am I doing here? Am I crazy? Why Am I doing this?"
But if you have a goal you will not give up and you will keep walking.
- So it comes the first water fall, right now the word water fall changes in your mind, and it becomes the word challenge.
- Again, so it comes the first challenge and you are afraid, but you pass; in these moment you are happy, you pass your first challenge/waterfall and you are ready for the next one.
- In the journey you will overcome a lot of challenges, and, every time you pass a big one, you get stronger and stronger, and you believe more in your team and you keep going.
- In my 4kms of Rafting in Jaciara, in the end there was a Big waterfall and I was afraid.
- I need to say that 2 seconds before the fall you have to use some courage to keep going and pass the Big and LAST challenge of this path.
- In the moment you fall the Big one, you just do what your leader asks you to do and you pass.
- In that moment you are so happy that you passed and you just think "Let's do it again. I loved it".
P.S.: I did this text today (August 12, 2011) after I went rafting at Jaciara, MT.
