>RE: "Needing to perform any rescue at all is a result of a failure on your >part". As with much in life, it depends on the context. When I'm surf-kayaking if I'm never getting knocked over and having to roll, I'm not really pushing myself, and not progressing in my surfing and bracing techniques. In this context, rolling is a success on my part - having to swim would be a failure. Though I do practise rolling my loaded touring kayak, if I ever had to do an unplanned roll on a tour, even if I did come upright, I would consider that I had failed at a number of levels: in the immeadiate sense of not having braced successfully, and in the broader senses of not judging the hydrography, tides, and/or weather, and my skill levels properly. Philip Torrens N49°16' W123°06' *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Feb 17 2000 - 15:39:13 PST
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