By "modern" and "old-fashioned" are you referring to materials or shape or what? If you clarify your question it will help me to know just what you are asking. thanks Barbara Kossy At 03:35 PM 3/25/98 -0800, Gerald Foodman wrote: >I have new narrow blade graphite Eddyline Windswift and a new wood Superior Greenland paddle. Both 7'6". I studied VanDoren's Greenland style video and use that technique with both paddles. While the wood paddle is better for sculling moves, the lighter graphite is more pleasant for long distances. > >Has anyone else experience with both modern and old-fashioned Greenland style paddles? Please don't consider esthetics in your comparison, only paddling feel and utility. > >Jerry ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> ><HTML> ><HEAD> > ><META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type> ><META content='"MSHTML 4.71.2016.0"' name=GENERATOR> ></HEAD> ><BODY bgColor=#ffffff> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>I have new narrow blade graphite Eddyline >Windswift and a new wood Superior Greenland paddle. Both 7'6". >I studied VanDoren's Greenland style video and use that technique with both >paddles. While the wood paddle is better for sculling moves, the lighter >graphite is more pleasant for long distances.</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Has anyone else experience with both modern and >old-fashioned Greenland style paddles? Please don't consider esthetics in >your comparison, only paddling feel and utility.</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Jerry </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> > * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- * --*--*-- Barbara Kossy Communications vox: 510-234-3479 fax: 510-234-6615 * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- * -- *--* -- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Mar 26 1998 - 07:18:21 PST
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