> After reading Paddlewise, I thought if I bought more gadets I didn't need > skills to be safe.... now I am confused .... > > Ed Confused? Why would you be confused? Skills are a continuum: you continually need to develop your cognitive, perceptual, and motor skills. There are gross and fine continuum skills; closed and open continuum skills; internal and external paced continuum skills; discrete, serial, and continuous continuum skills; individual, coactive and interactive continuum skills; simple and complex continuum skills; and there are low and high organization continuum skills. You have to practice skills to develope and maintain skills on this continuum: you can use variable and fixed practice and there is massed and distributed practice, all on a continuum. The above skills continuum is contextualized at home, in the pool, at the lake, and in the ocean. Gadgets are only adjunctive to skills - simply backups. Some you can make; most you need to buy. In keeping with all those numerous skill-continuum factors, does it not make sense to buy into a continuum of lbuying ots and lots of gadgets? See, that was easy. :-) Doug L > After reading Paddlewise, I thought if I bought more gadets I didn't need > skills to be safe.... now I am confused .... > > Ed *************************************************************************** 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 Thu Mar 22 2007 - 23:37:48 PDT
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