You Nailed It Magooch!
Parents coddle their kids too much now a days that we are becoming a nation of softies. No wonder there are hardly any kids paddling, for it is mostly old people, like me enjoying the water. My advice to the high school paddler is to feel his oats and hunt down a used Olympic style K-1 kayak, fix it up and go paddle. Forget about those fufu kayaks designed for his grandparents to go lilydippin in. Paddling alone is not as bad as those group sports run by grownups that cause thousands of head injuries every year.