RE: [Paddlewise] Skills: bracing, rolling.

George,

Take a lesson if you want to learn how to brace and
roll. I don't know anyone who learned how to roll
without help from a human being.

I suggest you take a class to see how to do it
and to learn the exercises you need to learn the 
components of the roll.  You can read about them,
but it really helps to see them done.

Then start going to pools during kayak sessions and 
practice.  I have found the people you meet kayaking 
in pools to be incredibly helpful.  In fact, I couldn't 
have learned the roll without the help from kind strangers 
during pool sessions.

The beaverton pool (I think its on third) is open for
rolling Monday nights and Wednesday nights.  I am 
traveling a lot for the next several weeks, but I'm 
usually at the pool every wednesday night (working on
my hand roll -- which I hope to have by the middle of 
summer).  I'd be happy to help you with your roll.  Just
look for an overly large, bearded guy with a really ugly
blue perception Dancer XT.

-Tim
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