Paddlec1 wrote:

Wilko posted:

It's one thing to come up with good paddling gear that can
make the risk of injury less, it's another altogether to sensationalize
a sport just to make your point.

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All perspective. What would you call it if one of your son's lost his life
paddling 5++ Jacobs Ladder on the Payette (which by the way, he had paddled
many times previously)? What would you call it if your other son and his
friends were traveling the globe making first decents and filming it?

With all due respect for the man's loss Dennis, that message was worded
in a questionable way. No matter how difficult the water was that his
sons are/were paddling, to state that *all* white water paddling is
extreme and dangerous is nonsense. That's what I'm having an issue with.

Claiming things like the "worlds best" and so on is one thing, but I
would expect that someone who makes such claims at least does enough
research into the sport to know what they're talking about. From what
I've read in his message posted here and on the web, he doesn't impress
me with his knowledge about our sport.

If he wants his product to have some effect on the safety of our sport,
it sure helps to make sure who his target audience is, and how he can
approach them and interest them in his product. IMNSHO this isn't the way.

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Wilko van den Bergh
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