Re: [Paddlewise] Teaching Kids: Looking for sources

This reminds me that my own Y camp [from my childhood, I mean] has had
kayaks [and thus a kayak instruction program] since at least the time my
daughter started going there some 16 years ago.  It's Camp Manito-Wish, just
outside Boulder Junction, Wisconsin, and it's widely thought of as the best
such camp [fundamentally, a progressive canoe camp (meaning, they start the
kids out on short canoe camping trips, and if they return the camp gradually
takes them on longer and longer trips...)] in the country, so perhaps they
would have suggestions????  Camp Manito-Wish YMCA has its own website, so
you could contact them in that way if you wish.

- Bill

----- Original Message -----
From: "A. Hurley" <ahurley_at_viewit.com>
Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Teaching Kids: Looking for sources


> I'm obviously checking this list for  the first time in ages -
>
> Regarding the Y, Tom Long, in Idaho, has had a very successful program
> for kids. He had created a club for kids, with a behavior contract they
> sign, and works from creative pool games to national competitive slalom.
> Kids can progress as fast or slow as they want and he encourages kids as
> coaches as he feels peers can teach each other as well as or better than
> adults.....
>
> Andree
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