From: Doug Lloyd <dlloyd_at_telus.net> <SNIP> how does an all BCU development weekend help Americans > when the dominant system will one day be the ACA. Forgive me my > ignorance of US paddling politics. I do not know a lot about what goes > on down there, and I _do_ know that the BCU stuff is top notch, but > where will this fit in with those wanting to move through the instructor > levels as the country moves toward a national program? As far as I know, neither the Democrats nor the Republicans, nor even Ralph or Pat have proposed national legislation espousing either BCU or ACA training programs. Why in the world would anyone want to develop a "dominant" or "national" system? We can ignore the wider connotations of the words "American" and "British," since neither program has anything to do with nationality, and both have everything to do with paddling anywhere on the globe. Both the ACA and BCU programs are (at least conceptually, and usually in practice) high quality, well thought-out systems for training paddling skills and safety. As long as that is true, there is room for both. We stand to benefit if both programs thrive. Institutions that become "dominant" tend to stagnate. Cheers (and Here Here) Bob *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Sep 06 2000 - 21:01:15 PDT
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