[Paddlewise] ACA Critical Judgment report

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Kruger" <kdruger_at_pacifier.com>
> > I don't think the best approach is to pre-educate him on re-entry
> > techniques. ......  he has to have a reason to know them:  he needs to
be
> motivated.  >Then he might take on the responsibility to learn some.
> >
> > If  I only had three minutes, I'd swim him (in his PFD) into the water
> fifty
> > feet off a safe beach, with the kayak in swamped, Cleopatra's Needle
> > position, and tell him,  "This is what will happen if you capsize.  Now
> > what?"
> > Dave Kruger
>
> I think Dave hit it square on the head. After spending 2 yrs trying to
> "safety motivate" my club I have given up.  There is a PhD Psychologist in
> this club who has told me repeatedly that people must learn things on
their
> own and rarely can be motivated by rhetoric or indoctrination.   I have
> become a huge fan of whaddya gonna do now?  I chuckle when I think of
Ronnie
> teaching  wet exit/recovery to a guy who didn't think he needed floatation
> in his kayak that lacked bulkheads.  After damn near sinking the kayak
> except for about 6 inches of the bow he quietly dragged it to the beach.
He
> never paddled with the club again.
>
> Jim et al
>


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