Paddlec1 wrote:
Wilko posted:

He comes onto this forum, trying to market a product to a mostly
knowledgable audience. His motives might be okay, but his advertising
tactic isn't,


My understanding is that this is a nonproffit endevor. Who says he knows
anything about marketing? If he were doing this for money he could hire a slick
advertising firm.

For the impact and effect his post has, it doesn't matter that he does
this for profit or not. The tone is doing his message more bad than
good, and I don't think that could be his intention.

and he could at least not try to insult our intelligence
by coming up with unsubstantiated claims.


Untill someone holds one of those helmets in their hands they don't know any
more about it than I do, which is zip. Who knows, could be a valid claim.

He makes a claim, it's up to him to substantiate it.

If he wants to make a positive
contribution, he could at least have done some research into our sport
and realize what works and what doesn't.

Research? He mentioned that his son Nick is assisting him. Go watch Nurpu.

I don't need to watch a video to judge from a message whether or not
someone has an accurate image of our sport. Depsite his son's
experience, it seems that the father still hangs onto an image that in
incongruous with reality. That does make me wonder about the validity of
his claims wrt white water paddling equipment...

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