On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Karl Coplan wrote: > Thanks for the direct reply. As a sea kayaker, I dont expect to need > a roll while up against a rock, cliff, boat, dock, etc. I realize > that an offside roll may be important to a ww kayaker, but am not > convinced for sea kayaking. > > Maybe it would make a difference in high winds . . . but you've got > to assume that a weaker offside roll will work with the wind after > your stronger onside roll has failed. Only story I am familiar with > is the one in Sea Kayakers Deep Trouble where the offside roll failed > in high winds right after the onside roll failed (you know, the guy > who was out in SF bay in 50 knot winds . . .) > > --Karl 50 knots is mellow ;-) we had the same here yesterday, and earlier this year, quite significantly higer [110mph] they come out of nowhere [so to speak ;-] this person's onside roll had him coming up against the wind, and he just couldn't do it. he then tried an offside roll, and the wind helped him the rest of the way up!! you could pull a muscle, and need to use an alternate roll. maligiaq padilla [the greenland national kayak champion] has 32 different rolls, on each side, for 64 total rolls. he doesn't paddle whitewater at all, or didn't until he came to the USA. the greenlandic people [is eskimo just alaskan, or is it non-PC?] have developed rolls on both sides because they know well that doo-doo does indeed happen. mark #------canoeist[at]netbox[dot]com----http://www.diac.com/~zen/mark ---- # mark zen o, o__ o_/| o_. po box 474 </ [\/ [_| [_\ ft. lupton, co 80621-0474 (`-/-------/----') (`----|-------\-') #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~ http://www.diac.com/~zen/paddler [index to club websites i administer] Rocky Mtn Sea Kayak Club, Colorado River Flows, Poudre Paddlers The Colorado Paddlers' Resource, Rocky Mtn Canoe Club Trip Page -- Fortune: Do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. --Benjamin Franklin *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Jun 23 1999 - 12:51:20 PDT
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