On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, sylvio lamarche wrote: > This winter, not being able to go out touring, due to my nasty "staph"?' > infection on my knee, can't swim, can't knee brace much... > > I started practicing surf landings going backwards towards the beach, I > sure do like it that way as I always have an eye out for the incoming waves > ready to paddle through a dump, and at the ready for the nasty wave to come > at me... > As for going towards the beach, the water carries me to shore and > with very lttle paddling I can go ever so slow to the beach and execute > safe landings ... > > This was discussed at the surf zone class I attended a few years back, but > ot tried out...I guess I kept that one with me all along....sure do like it > much more than having to keep looking back and back paddling so much... > > > I wonder if anyone else does this... In the surf class I attended a year back that was the first one we learned, the old-standby, the failsafe, second only to wet exiting and swimming in with your boat tumbling in by itself. (That latter one was okay for the paddler, not much good for the boat - but what to do when all else _really_ fails!) Joy Hecht Arlington VA *************************************************************************** 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 Tue Aug 11 1998 - 10:50:50 PDT
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