scott, read your post re a trip with dwayne strosaker and the newbies. my overwhelming reaction to your post is, why paddle with the "excruciatingly slow" newbies if you hate it (it being their low skill level) so much? i am (like) one of those people....everyone has to start somewhere. when i get good at kayaking, though, maybe in a year or so, i hope i don't have contempt for people who go slow, who don't have much of a clue, or who have few skills. i hope i will encourage them and respect their willingness to learn and their courage to look like an idiot until they get it right. so don't come paddle up here with me, ok? you'll hate it! kcd ps if i found an instructor or someone else taking bets over whether or not i'd be one of the ones to capsize (in surf or not) i'd get my money back, and have some sever words for the "instructor" if it were a paid guided paddle. sorry, i teach professionally, and to me, that's (don't want to offend you here but i can't help it) bullshit. i hate belittling almost as much as you seem to hate newbies! kathleen comalli dillon~friend, mom, wife, musician, violinist, writer, ailurophile extraordinaire ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "We can do no great things; we can only do small things with great love."-Mother Teresa~~"I find a lot of people like chubby 67-year-old girls."-Beverly Sills~~"I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it."-Abraham Lincoln~~"Prepare to be assimila-----OOOOOoooooo, jelly donuts!"-Homer of Borg~~"I am Boris of Borg. Moose and Squirrel are irrelevant."~~ *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Nov 28 2000 - 11:32:33 PST
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