At 08:26 PM 4/17/98 -0700, Dave Kruger wrote: >Good judgement ... the stuff which helps people avoid problems ... I do >not think it can be taught. You can teach yourself a little, and it >helps a lot to model good judgement by hanging out with (and carefully >observing) old salts. >-- >Dave Kruger >Astoria, OR >very old teacher Stay with me while I wax poetic a bit. . . Over the years I've learned to "personify" mentors and have them look over my shoulder while I'm perfecting whatever craft I'm working at. The crowd at the shoulder includes numerous school teachers and university professors. . . But I digress. . . So when it comes to asking if some kayak scenario can "be done," I have plenty of hot authorities whose advice I trust. Now, when I want to know if it's "good judgement" for me to try one of these scenarios, then I rely on the cooler heads of experience. Dave's one of those cooler heads. We owe it to the sport to model safe yakking, and to take the newbies under the wing so that they set out from the start on the "true path." Dave teaches that too --and he's not *that* old. Geo. 50 on Sunday. . . (half-way mark) *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Apr 17 1998 - 21:06:29 PDT
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