Hi Ralph, Ralph, kdc, et al - I was about to comment about Ralphs :----) But then: Why should I? Thats the way he took it into his personal vocabulary and thats ok. : ~~) (tried to roll and slammed my nose against some pebbles in the riverbed) would have been worse. Also, Ralph - the other one - you forgot mentioning Marian and Rainer, who also could give comment on the first one. What I really did like was Jochen and the other Ralphs approach towards rolling: Not as a pseudo-religious practice to show your competence in kayaking, not even necessarily as a means of self-rescue, but as a method to improve self-conciousness contra fears and respect for the wet environment we are living with (hopefully not in) from time to time. As a matter of fact: When meeting for the "Faltboot Probetreffen Sued" from July, 13th - 15th at Gaienhofen-Horn, western Lake of Constance (an informal first meeting of folding kayakers - not so much the kayakers, but the boats :-) we are going to have a workshop on bracing, methods for reentry and - as far as Katja from Franfurt will be involved - rolling the old Nautiraid and, so she promised: my ugly Aerius I (So, if there will be no more posts from me past this time she failed teaching me). btw - Whoever of you might be near aroung this time of the year: You are welcome. And as for the somehow cryptic sign at our fence "OFW" - some posts ago (paddlers exchange) - it means "old f*rts welcome" Happy paddling - I´ll be off for work in a minute, Frank Oh, and I was most unpolite, Sandy: I forgot twice saying thank you to you for the good work you initiated with this list. Sorry about this. Je umsichtiger die Planung, desto treffsicherer der Zufall. Frank Fichtmueller, Guetebohlweg 4, D 78343 Gaienhofen (d) evkirche.hoeri_at_t-online.de (p) fichtmueller_at_gmx.de (T) (0049) + 7735 - 2074 (d) 2776 (p) (F) 1431 *************************************************************************** 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 Wed Feb 14 2001 - 23:53:41 PST
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