As I pulled up to a beach and started unloading my kayak, a fellow down the beach paddled over in his sit-on-top and told me he was a Kayak Instructor and guide. As I visited with him, I wondered. He paddled up, and paddled away with his paddle upside down. Don't know, maybe he is from the "new School" of paddling. Robert PS I didn't sign up for lessons with him. Don Diamond wrote >I was reading some catalogs and I noticed the paddles >that were being shown up side down. In classes I teach >students which side the top portion of the blade. Then I >settled back in a chair and read through Sea Kayaker >Magazine. The last glance picture shows a woman paddling >along the coast of Puget Sound with a rather large dog >on her stern deck. I noticed that she to was using the >paddle in a feathered upside down position. Could this >be a new paddling style sprouting up from Washington >state? *************************************************************************** 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 Sun Mar 21 1999 - 14:30:36 PST
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