>Wise words. The annoying thing that I regularly come across when teaching >kayaking is that my students usually want to learn to roll immediately, >rather than put in the time required to learn to brace properly. Between >sessions those who work on their rolls often end up with shoddy rolls and >shoddy braces. I think this works well in theory, but I'd have to agree with Chuck that learning a roll really adds confidence to a brace. A lot of bracing that people without a roll do is token slapping -- I know from personal experience. When I was first starting out I was always nervous about really committing to a brace, especially a high sculling brace. I think that by learning a sweep roll you are really forced to learn good sculling technique as well as develop a good hip-snap. Besides, with winter (almost) here there are plenty of opportunities to use beginners in the pool to practise these theories on! ;-) -Patrick PS I just spent the last four hours planning my Greenland paddle. It is actually starting to resemble a paddle and not a 2x4! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Maun pmaun_at_bitstream.net *************************************************************************** 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 Wed Dec 09 1998 - 21:43:19 PST
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