Mike wrote: >If your blade angle is good and your paddle still dives, it suggests to me >that you're pulling down on the paddle before the sweep is complete >rather than continuing all the way around. I think that's what I'm doing.. >Your hip snap in a sweep roll should be strong, but is not really a snap, >but more of a continuous rotation. I finally have that ingrained into my head--I think that's what finally let me complete an offside screw roll >Make sure you're not pulling the paddle down (sort of c-c) - >the standard advice is to follow your paddle around with your head >(i.e. watch your paddle blade all the way round). I am following it with my head; I can see it as I have to rotate the blade 90* to pop it out of the water. My elbow is coming in tucked next to my body--is this right or do I need to have my arm fully extended and have my hand/elbow/arm finish well behind my body? --Wow, I don't know how Kirk can air roll his office chair--it's tougher than it looks! >If it's not really two feet under, but a tad less than 18 inches below, >I've been told not to worry about it - that, by the way, is pretty much my >average roll. Okay, so if my blade dives exactly 21 inches, then what? ;) Actually it's probably just over a foot down--not too bad, but not where I'd like it to be either. I'm not sure if I'm having this problem with my offside--the times I did it, I was so elated that I wasn't paying attention to the little details--while my onside is a bit more ingrained, so I can pay more attention to minutia. Shawn ____©/______ ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^\ ,/ /~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^ "A person not related to nature is of course neurotic because he is not adapted to reality" -Carl Jung *************************************************************************** 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 - 09:03:34 PDT
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