An interesting thread. We seem to be concerned --- justifiably --- that the ACA or BCU or any other "accreditation" group will finally discover "the" Greenlandic technique in paddling and patent it for sale. The real problem, from my experience, is that there does not seem to *be* any one accepted, standard Greenlandic technique --- at least not in Greenland. I remember first watching Maligiaq at the DelMarVa meeting last fall and wondering how someone with so much recognition within the Greenland paddling community could have such a terrible Greenland stroke! But "terrible" by whose standards? My guess is that there is a continuum of paddling styles in Greenland, and Maligiaq represents just one beautiful point on that continuum; by inference, there may be lots of other styles of paddling within the Greenland communities, nots superior or inferior to the style Maligiaq showed us, which all fall within true Greenland strokes. Why should we, as a worldwide paddling community, even attempt to stardardize, package, wholesale and retail some self-styled "Greenland style" when it appears that there is such a diversity of style and technique at the source? Jack Martin *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Jul 07 1999 - 04:41:56 PDT
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