A key component to healthy paddling is coming back alive.
All reports indicate that dying is very spiritual.
Not many people watching kayakers on a river would decide to go out and run a river without training. Something about all that gear the helmets and lifejackets. It looks difficult, and the average person watching them thinks, I d better take a course and buy a brain bucket . We tend to think of fun and safety as opposite ends of a continuum. I have come to think of fun and safety as two sides of the same coin.