Well here’s another place you can go / Where everything flows
Looking through the bent backed tulips / To see how the other half live
– the beatles

If you ask a new paddling student to simply paddle forward then turn their kayak in motion, without further instruction they will inevitably produce a stern rudder.  They reach back with their paddle on the side they want to turn, set the blade in the water, and push out.  The kayak turns.  I like having students do this, so I can label it and change “a thing they do” into a skill simply through the power of linguistics.  It helps them start thinking all this kayak stuff may not be so tough.  Heck they can make some of it up without really trying!

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