On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 05:45:12PM -0700, Julio MacWilliams wrote: > What is the point of measuring the pressure on the feet? If you have > a comfortable seat, with an upward slope to hold your thighs, the > friction of the seat alone is suffcient to move the kayak forward. Unless I've misunderstood that MIT study, it referred to pedalling, not paddling (e.g. reference to toe clips). BTW, I rely on strong footbraces to stay in my seat -- I exert enough force when paddling hard forward that I once broke a footbrace during a violent 90-degree accelerating turn. I don't think just the seat is gonna do it for me. ;-) BTW #2, we *all* paddle differently when we're not concentrating. That's part of the reason for all the practice: to slowly teach the body to move correctly even when not closely supervised by the brain. But even though we all know that, videotape replay of bad technique is still really embarrassing. ---Rsk Rich Kulawiec rsk_at_gsp.org *************************************************************************** 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 Jul 23 1998 - 19:08:26 PDT
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