Subject: RE: [baidarka] 3D images
From: Greg Stamer (gstamer@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Dec 13 2001 - 15:35:10 EST
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>Sadly, kayaks are no longer made or used in Ammassilik, even as a pastime,
>Ammassilik being too far from West Greenland for the Greenland Kayak Club
>to
>have had any influence yet. However, one of the actors in the film, who
>reportedly did the stunt work at the end, was instrumental in passing his
>knowledge along to the founders of the club
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Chuck,
I have attended several meetings of the Greenland Kayaking Association
(Qaannat Kattuffiat), including one in Nuuk, where reaching out to the East
Greenlanders has been discussed. John Heath has been very vocal on this
issue.
The major problems are that the East and West Greenlanders speak mutually
unintelligible dialects, and that the cost of transportation between East
and West Greenland is prohibitive, roughly the same as flying from Greenland
to Denmark.
Unfortunately, Kaleraq Bech, the Qaannat Kattuffiat past-president, said
there are no immediate plans to include East Greenland. Hopefully the
problems will be overcome, especially since some of the rolling methods and
rope gymnastic techniques that are featured in the Greenland kayaking
championship, are said to have originated in East Greenland.
Greg Stamer
http://www.qajaqusa.org
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