Oci-One Kanubi ) writes:
(William R. Watt) typed:

on the topic of lessons, there's been quite a heated debate in the local
Ottawa paddling newsgroup ott.rec.canoe-kayak. I'm on the "no lessons" side
of the discussion.

That's fascinating. Would you mind posting some of the rationales for
deliberately attempting a difficult and mildly dangerous activity
incompetantly? I'd be really interested to read about 'em.

where do you get that "incompetently". absence of paid instruction is not
incompetence. I give you thousands of years of native experience paddling
canoes and kayaks before the advent of paid instructors, as well as
hundreds of years of canoe experience by white explorers, fur traders,
trappers, propsectors, guides, hunters and fishermen. Well known paddlers
like Bill Mason and Eric Morse taught themselves to paddle in all kinds of
conditions.



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