Shawn - Ideally your paddle just skims the surface of the water when you do a good screw roll. On really good days, maybe toward the end of the summer, I get that slick feeling to a screw roll. More often, when I'm rolling my hard-chine boat, my paddle will dip below the surface too. Rolling, IMNSHO, is a bit like the old thing about landing an airplane ("any landing you walk away from is a good landing"): any roll which gets you back up is a good roll. I'm sure plenty of others will disagree, but I think if we have a really reliable roll, **in conditions**, that's what we really need. The rest is bragging rights. Nice for practice, nice for confidence, but probably not necessary for safe kayaking. - Bill Hansen *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Jun 22 1999 - 05:40:48 PDT
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