In a message dated 11/22/98 5:55:22 PM Pacific Standard Time, klagjf_at_worldnet.att.net writes: << The last few times I capsized in surf I managed to roll up without rolling. I didn't set up, didn't sweep, didn't hip snap. Yet I rolled up comfortably broached on the wave in a high brace. I think that I just sort of stick my paddle out and up I come. >> Done deliberately in the face of a wave this is a surfing maneuver known as "window shading." As the wave approaches the shore it draws the water out from the beach and up it's face. If you were to capsize down wave with your paddle out, then roll around so the paddle ends up in the wave face the water moving up the face can lift your paddle, and you hanging on to it, up to where you find yourself again sitting upright in your boat with your paddle extended into the wave face in a bracing position. I think the first time everyone experiences this it is completely by accident. Scott So.Cal. *************************************************************************** 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 Mon Nov 23 1998 - 05:12:05 PST
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