No use crying over split kayaks

Daredevil kayakers frequently descend the mighty 300ft spillover of the Llyn Brianne Reservoir in mid-Wales, and there are four public attitudes:

1:   Outraged - Kayakers' 300ft dam drop attacked - BBC Wales

2:   Amazed - Kamikaze kayakers hit 45mph on reservoir spillway - Wales Online

3:   Neutral - Extreme kayaking at Llyn Brianne reservoir - YouTube

4:   Heroic - The legend that is Shaun Baker kayaks down Llyn Brianne Dam Slipway - YouTube - see below.

From outraged third-hand reporting, running through to utter admiration (Shaun Baker has a camera in his helmet), which of the four levels of story do you prefer?

I've always taken my hat off to the independent daredevil.   I think we don't get enough of them.

Yet sometimes they put other people at risk.  For example, the famous Tower Bridge incident in 1968, when a pilot flew a jet fighter under the top span of the bridge.  It's hard not to criticise that risk, at the same time as cheering his success. 

And last weekend, between Harlow and Sawbridgeworth, I had a few close shaves with daredevil kayakers who didn't know which side of me to pass.  They annoyed me with their indecision, faced with twelve tons of Granny Buttons bearing down on them.  If' I'd run them down, I'd have been blamed, even though it wasn't my fault.

But if you die alone on your way willingly down the Llyn Brianne spillover, should we be angry with you or cheer your spirit?

By the way, what's the most extreme UK waterways kayak course?