I lost my roll when i was not paddling much during the early family& having kids years and that was 8 years into my paddling career ...you can still lose it at any time

It comes back ,just keep...

IMO once a week and you keep whatever skills you have ,twice a week is enough to get better ...still some guys can jump in a boat once a year and make it look easy

if you had the roll once...

well few people have a good roll right off the bat so the 1st season of paddling is usually the swimming season ,the spring high water/cold weather is over and there will be lots of good swimming on...

well in a race where 1 wrongly placed stroke will lose you the race, if you hav to roll you would have lost the race anyhow so european slalom coaches were not big on the roll is the story I hear but...

lots of paddlers in cow-town,aqabatics is a great place to hook up and the kan is a great place to learn and I am pretty sure I remember they had pit tiolets there .

Even if you don't get yer...