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Gentle Paddling in Scotland.
"Ewan Scott" wrote in message
... The reason I don't like to grade it is because someone else will always say "oh but I've run that and it's not that hard", and then people start paying attention to such idiots. I prefer to think of it as runnable but hard and dangerous. Ah. There you have the crux of the difficulty of paddling. We do need to encourage people to push their envelope, but we need to be very careful not to draw people into water grades and experiences that they are not mentally ready for. Agreed - that is where the gradings are much more useful than has been suggested here. Many people have a tendency to downgrade rapids because they found them easy or because they have only ever paddled it at low levels (thereby giving an invalid grading). But experienced paddlers will go back to the original definitions of the gradings and find that actually there is much less scope for differences of opinion than has been suggested. A good coach will take such information along with knowledge of the paddler to produce the desired experience. |
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