Dave Williams wrote (as part of a post on another subject) >I'm not overly familiar with the BCU schemes, but from what I've seen of it, I'm also not overly impressed. It does have it's place and it serves to educate the masses. But with all such 'big league' organizations, it's gonna have its drawbacks... such as personal attention to individuals I reckon'. Bob wrote: >Individual instructors may be more or less attentive and helpful, but I'm compelled to respond to Dave's "blowing off" BCU and other standards-based training programs. Golly gosh Mr. Bob, how do you come up with the term "blowing off" from what I said? "Not overly impressed" hardly justifies a "blowing off" reply. I'm sorry if you misunderstood my intention. I'm sure the BCU in general is very capable of teaching a paddler a lot of valuable techniques and essential information. I didn't mean that they aren't capable of personal attention. However, logically, if a group is big, the teaching is less personal due in part to time constraints. Does that make sense? If so, then that's what I meant. :-) BTW, I'd really like to take some BCU and/or ACA courses. I'm sure I'd benefit from it. The problem is, there aren't any that I know of here in Thailand. Cheers, Dave Dave Williams dave_at_paddleasia.com http://paddleasia.com Phuket, Thailand *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Sep 20 1999 - 20:42:12 PDT
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