{"id":4435,"date":"2019-06-06T09:14:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T13:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/?p=4435"},"modified":"2019-06-06T09:14:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T13:14:10","slug":"paddling-magazine-prompts-the-discussion-of-negative-impact-of-certifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/?p=4435","title":{"rendered":"Paddling Magazine prompts the discussion of negative impact of certifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Below is a link to Paddling Magazine&#8217;s recent article raising the question of if there is negative impact in the kayaking community due to the pressure and focus on certification. Take a read. What are your thoughts?<\/p>\n<p>NACK was born (as I&#8217;ve been told by our elders!) out of a desire for more training and skill building, and a natural path for that has been to leverage ACA guidelines and certifications. To that end, NACK offers yearly FREE&nbsp; training and assessments. We just had one June 1<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"DnLvhUD0LE\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/paddlingmag.com\/stories\/columns\/rock-the-boat\/certification-killed-paddling-adventures\/\">Certification killed paddling adventures<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Certification killed paddling adventures&#8221; &#8212; Paddling Magazine\" src=\"https:\/\/paddlingmag.com\/stories\/columns\/rock-the-boat\/certification-killed-paddling-adventures\/embed\/#?secret=ZWvaTU8H7n#?secret=DnLvhUD0LE\" data-secret=\"DnLvhUD0LE\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below is a link to Paddling Magazine&#8217;s recent article raising the question of if there is negative impact in the kayaking community due to the pressure and focus on certification. Take a read. What are your thoughts? NACK was born (as I&#8217;ve been told by our elders!) out of a desire for more training and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88890,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88890"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4436,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4435\/revisions\/4436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}