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2011: The Year to Put the FUN Back into Paddling FUNdamentals
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his year, we (all of us, from the member to the instructor to the national office) need
to take a look at how we are promoting and presenting programs and the ACA to maximize the benefits of the experience and correlate the experience with all that the ACA does as an organization. Looking back at our organizational tenets, let’s see them from an experiential point of view.
• Education: Offer educational opportunities that emphasize the experience and incorporate the needed safety.
• Stewardship: Highlight the great works that can be achieved through cooperative efforts. The ACA offers a great deal of support (and even grant money) to clubs
and organizations to achieve success (Club Fostered Stewardship Grant Program)
• Competition: This doesn’t always mean super high-level/elite competition. Get out there and have a blast while competing against your friends and fellow paddlers. There are great opportunities at recreational, intermediate and elite levels in a variety of disciplines. It doesn’t always matter who the champion is, but it sure is fun to be part of the mix.
• Recreation: This is what the ACA is truly all about…getting people out on the water to recreate! Yes we offer classes, river clean- ups and competitions, but the end goal is to get people on the water, having fun and enjoying the resources.
My personal goal is to work on getting the ACA image back to incorporating the FUN aspects of paddling. They have always been there, but I think they need to be back at the forefront. On Facebook there is a page called Do One
Thing for Paddling. A lot of folks have “liked” the page and have put down things they will do in 2011. I challenge all of you to do one (or more) things for paddling in 2011, BUT make sure that everything you do involves FUN and share this enjoyment with others. Together we can show that the efforts being put forth by all of us as members of the ACA indicate the true work that the organization supports and stands for, and has for over 131 years.
Your friend on the Water, Jeremy Oyen
ARE ANYTHING BUT MAINSTREAM.
American Canoe Association’s National Paddlesports Conference Louisville, September 30 – October 2, 2011
Make plans to dip your paddles into all that Louisville has to offer as Possibility City hosts the American Canoe Association’s Paddlesports Conference this September. Canoers, kayakers, rafters and paddleboarders gather on the banks of the Ohio to experience a city of parks and waterways, including a new six-mile water trail. Make plans to attend and learn more at
AmericanCanoe.org/NationalPaddleSportsConference. Find us on Facebook at
facebook.com/2011.ACA.NPC.
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