Having spent 20 years with my butt in the seat of a kayak, having led and been led on more group paddles then I care to remember, let me offer this bit of advice - If you are ever on a group paddle with a designated leader, and this leader fails to keep control of the group, resign yourself to never paddle with him/her again. The 'experienced group leaders' of this list are failing to take responsibility for failure to maintain control. They insist it to be the fault of the novice, or the 'hot shots', the fast, the slow, the independents, the wind, the waves, the water. What they are skirting around in their own inability to lead. A true leader takes responsibility, and blame, for the success of the group paddle. A true leader will not let the group become a liability to itself. How dare you reject the input from those who have never paddled in a group when it is obvious from your posting that you lack the skills to lead. Leadership is a rare quality. If you don't poses it, you endanger the lives of the entire group by taking a leadership position. Your group leader may be the nicest or the meanest SOB you ever met, but maintaining control over any situation, or preventing it in the first place, is what counts. john Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com *************************************************************************** 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 Sat Apr 03 1999 - 14:31:56 PST
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