John Winters wrote: > > Steve writes. > >Take your eyes to your TV and look at what they're doing. It certainly > >looks like the paddle is staying put--OK, maybe it moves a > >centimeter--and the boat is moving. But unless the bouy is also moving > >through the water, the paddle is pretty well fixed. > > In this Steve is quite right. It doesn't look like they move a lot nor do > they move a lot but they don't have too. Movement is movement and the > movement is essential to developing thrust. Another thought experiment: kneel on a skateboard next to a parking meter. Rotate forward as you would for a forward stroke. Grasp the post of the PM and return to a neutral position. Did perceive your board move? Did you perceive the parking meter move? I believe Nick would observe that the earth moved a little bit (Did it move for you?...well, never mind), but I think this amount of movement can safely be ignored. The amount of movement in paddling is greater than that, but still amounts to a very small distance. > The issue here is > not how much the paddle moves but does it move. Rich was quite clear about > this. Of course, if you really are interested in the number of angels who can dance on the blade of a Greenland paddle, have at it. I agree that this thread started generating more heat than light many posts ago. Steve *************************************************************************** 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 Fri Jul 24 1998 - 10:28:02 PDT
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