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Should You Buy That New Piece of Paddling Kit?

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This post isn’t going to have a lot of meat, but, hopefully, this flow chart will help you decide if you should buy that new piece of paddling kit. It’s inspired by guitarsquid.com’s flow chart for buying music equipment. I changed it up slightly and added an additional step.

do you need that new piece of gear

And simplified:

Should you buy that gear simplified

Enjoy. I kind of like this flow chart idea. Anyone have any other perplexing paddling questions that need to be answered by a flow chart? If so, I can throw one together for you.

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One Comment

  • Steven Reckner

    Clever and very much like the process I use when contemplating buying photography equipment. Typically, though, the photo gear is much easier to hide.

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