At 10:42 AM 4/15/98 -0400, you wrote: > I must have missed how this started----How can anybody break a bone >kayaking? I paddle in 6 to 8 ft seas frequently, and have yet to suffer a >"collision" with a wave that has the torque to sprain even the weakest >muscle, lot less break a bone. What are you guys doing :-) >Dan Volker WPB, FL Dan: That's why things are called "accidents"! I totally blew out my right knee one time while trying to catch a Frisbee tossed by a 4 year old from about six feet away! The result was knee surgery. In a lesser incident, my wife Jeanne who is an very competent BCU 4 Star paddler nearly broke her wrist when a "rental canoeist" ran her into some trees and her hand got pinned between the paddleshaft and a tree limb. Her wrist was purple black for weeks and she had to wear a wrist wrap while paddling for about six months. It could have easily broken a forearm. We'll take 6-8 footers any day! :-) BTW, we were just shooting on location at the Hyatt Pier 66 in Ft Lauderdale and while eating lunch at the beach noticed that the surf was up to about 4' with 15-20 kn SE winds. Hope it holds for you for the weekend! Regards, Robert ________________________________________________________ Robert Starling Member ASMP / APSG Robert Starling Photography, Inc. Orlando, Florida Phone 407 521-0041 Fax 407 521-0031 http://www.starling.com NetGuide Magazine Internet Site Of The Day *************************************************************************** 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 Wed Apr 15 1998 - 15:56:37 PDT
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