You can go it alone as some of you will be hell bent to do and there is no stopping, nor talking you out of it. This is fine, do what YOU like! We're hopeful some of you will listen to the voice of reason and experiance. I would guess between Piper and myself we have close to (if not more then) 50 years of experiance in this hobby. I can say uniquivically learning with an instructor is the best way to go and I have the years of experiance to back this up. One particular incidence where an instructor or instructors screwed up, shouldn't be construed as adequate reason to throw the better success instructors have brought to teaching the sport to others!

This is a beginners forum. We're attempting to help people learn this activity, not point them to the more difficult path.