My first paddle

My mate Dave took me out this morning for my first lesson in a canoe. After the obligatory safety stuff was out of the way he showed me a few different paddle strokes, I think they were power, C and J? I didn't realise you could keep the canoe going straight without paddling from both sides and it took a little while to get the hang of it but I picked it up pretty quickly. He then took me out to some small Rapids where I was shown how to get across the water, my first attempt I ended up 200 yards down stream but the second I managed to get spot on. Was such a chilled out and relaxed way of being out on the water and I'm definitely hooked!!! Cant wait for my Peasemarsh plans to arrive so I can start building. If I could figure out how to post an image i would, I'll get round to it shortly though.