Re: [Paddlewise] best this, right that?

In a message dated 5/3/00 4:28:42 AM !!!First Boot!!!, 
asdfghjkl-cem_at_hotbot.com writes:

<< 
 I wasn't so much hacking at the recent discussion about ACA & BCU "stuff" as 
I was commenting on a whole bunch of "little" things that have been said 
during the last few months.  I was pretty clear about the ACA / BCU stuff.  I 
think overhearing someone "teaching" a group of beginners this weekend, 
speaking as if "his way" was the "correct way", set me off.  I should paddle 
more & think less.  C'est la vie. >>

Spencer and Friends,
  If ever there is a time for the right way and wrong way, it is with 
newcomers.  This is the purpose of formal instruction (opinion) 
STANDARDIZATION.  At this juncture, there may very well be a right and wrong 
way.  The right way being the way that will introduce paddlers to the sport 
without harming themselves, other paddlers or the paddling environment.  
After paddling for several seasons, we tend to overlook the basics.  
Newcomers need the basics.  They need reference points.  If you have a class 
of ten students and everyone is doing it there way, time management will be 
much less than effective.
  If a person is taking responsibility for a group (and teaching following an 
established format) , isn't their way the correct way? 
  It appears to me that many of the ACA/BCU, Euro/Greenland, Rudd/Non debates 
are mainly good natured.  With these issues, there is no right and wrong. 
   
     Ahh, now there's the rub.
    Bruce McC
   WEO
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