Many of the people who have posted comments about Rick Leton's website have criticized his coverage with rude remarks about him being bias. One question. Do you judge a book by its cover? To those people who are so inconsiderate, do you know Rick Leton personally? Have you talked to him? Do you know what his life is like? People have been judging Rick Leton. Yes, there was a lack of coverage to the two women's races, but to start posting comments about how he is bias to Lanikai is so foolish and child like. After checking the Y2kanu archive at the past heading on the website, I found Lanikai only a few times. I also discovered that Outrigger Canoe Club had about two times as may headings and pictures. Now is Rick Leton bias to Outrigger? of course not. Lanikai and Outrigger are on the website the most becuase they are the ones winning all the races. Like Ocpaddler, the winners are usually shown on the front page.
Running a website is a hard job and I have talked to Rick and from what I understand, Y2kanu is for the people, not to make alot of money. Rick enjoys taking pictures of our wonderful sport. Maybe we should thank him for doing so! And if you were to make a website, you would be lying if you tell me that there wouldn't be alot of pictures of your canoe club or paddling friends on your website. So read the pages in between the cover before you comment.
-Pat Dolan
PS: If you have something against Lanikai, do something about it. We train smart and hard, what about you? See you on the water.
Submitted by dolanp on Thu, 01/19/2006 - 11:57am
Pat is right about that. I don't think paddling websites is about money. I talked to Keizo too and its a side thing for him. We in the sport should thank these guys for allowing ALL OF US to keep in touch with each other.
#1 Fri, 02/03/2006 - 12:41am