At 12:08 PM 5/17/98 EDT, it was written: >At one time I had the indestructable attitude too. Not an indestructable attitude, I'm trying to find the median on all this. The instructor I'm referring to is half my age (he's 23) and big on the "adrenaline" stuff. He's an avid fan of surf yakking, likes to head out in storms and heavy seas, and is beginning to get serious about white water and diving off waterfalls in a boat. So that's one end of the kayak paradigm. On the other end, I paddle with people who never go out in open surf, stay away from rough water, and just plain don't roll. That's maybe the other end. There's a creew in Seattle that has practice sessions before group paddles around the Gulf Islands. That seems somewhere in the middle. So I'm "testing the waters," trying to appraise what sort of skills I need to yak safely where I want to go. I suppose what I'm trying to figure is if the proposed lessons are training me to be a kayaking "hot-dog" or just ensuring that I don't end up being "turkey sausage." *************************************************************************** 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 Sun May 17 1998 - 13:43:44 PDT
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:29:56 PDT