Re: [Paddlewise] rolls and failure

Someone said:
>RE: "Needing to perform any rescue at all is a result of a failure on your
>part".

So, if I get knocked over by a big mother of a boomer wave while touring
amongst a rock garden (as has happened a few times over the years) but
don't actually go a full 180 degrees due to a well-placed and-timed scull,
does that mean I'm half a failure? Three quarters of a failure if I get my
head wet?

And, if I get caught on the back side of an unexpected boomer (common
enough after rounding a point of land into a wide bay that has an
unexpected reef in the middle of the bay) such that I purposely roll to
arrest sideways momentum and dispell explosive energy, does that mean I'm a
planned failure? If I don't roll back up on the same side, but swith and
roll up on my offside, am I a failure and a half?

Also, if I'm traversing an exposed coast with heavy swell and I need to
land and find a spot that isn't dumping - like just behind a little island,
but get twisted and knocked-over in the convergence and confusion of
reflected swell on the lee side 
(as has happened once)...am I a failure if I swim the rest of the way in,
but have evaded dangerously dumping surf?

Am I a failure? Oh, please tell me it isn't so!   :-) 

BC'in Ya
Doug Lloyd (who wears a helmet while touring, by the way)

 
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