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CarlS · Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:25 pm Post subject: Setting the record straight

Those who know me well will no doubt tell people that I am a quiet person who always thinks carefully before speaking, however, it is perhaps time to give an accurate account of comments made when perhaps I have been caught off guard.

1) 'yeah I agree totally, let's run Bala Mill tomorow, it looks like you can get away with anything' this comment followed several pints of Guiness in a pub in Bala, following a run of the lower section of the Tryweryn and involved myself and another paddler (Mick) after we had only been paddling a few weeks. The next day when we ran the river again I decided not to run the falls, due to a really good reason that I no longer remember.

2) If I'm going to capsize it wil............' a comment made to Chris on the River Kent just as I was breaking into an eddy. I finished the sentence under water.

3) 'I swam so you must have', this was pure logic speaking. I had seen much better paddlers than myself swim at the same spot and the person who I was talking to was a serial club swimmer and Jason*

4) Has Jason* got his helmet wet yet? This followed a purchase of a really good state of the art creeking full contact kayaking helmet by a member who at the time was unable to get out paddling all that much.

5) 'What this club needs is more competent paddlers', by this I meant members who would be happy to lead river trips up to grade 3.

I hope the above sets the record straight and I am sure that comments such have these have been discussed many times before.

Carl

*Jason is an urban myth.

Steve T · Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 8:13 pm Post subject: