This last weekend my wife and I took a great two day class from GRO. During the rescue drills Julie showed the demonstrators how she could get back into a boat without any assistance or a paddle float. They started to tease her about how good her balance must be. Someone came up with the bright idea that she could probably even stand in her boat... So she did it! This photo is the second time in the day she stood in a boat. The boat she's in is the boat I paddled for most of the two day class (we just swapped for an hour to test the other boat). It is a NDK Romany Explorer 18, of which I am currently lusting after (well, and the girl in the boat too). Julie paddled the Romany 16 most of the weekend and loved it much more than the Explorer. Anyways, on to the photos: http://homestead.deja.com/user.grindol/JGstand1.html is a smaller picture (about 179k) while http://homestead.deja.com/user.grindol/JGstand.html is an enlarged picture but is ~750k. The first small page has a link to the second page. Enjoy, Mel --- There are three types of people, those who can count and those who can't. --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- Share what you know. Learn what you don't. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
impressive!! here's the url to maligiaq padilla, doing pushups on top of a 17" wide boat!! i'd be a swimmer if i tried to anything like that!! i can barely stand up in my glass canoe!! http://www.jacksonville.net/~dldecker/mp18.jpg the whole series: http://www.jacksonville.net/~dldecker/pm.htm mark On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Mel Grindol wrote: > This last weekend my wife and I took a great two day class from GRO. > During the rescue drills Julie showed the demonstrators how she could > get back into a boat without any assistance or a paddle float. They > started to tease her about how good her balance must be. Someone came > up with the bright idea that she could probably even stand in her > boat... So she did it! > > This photo is the second time in the day she stood in a boat. The > boat she's in is the boat I paddled for most of the two day class (we > just swapped for an hour to test the other boat). It is a NDK Romany > Explorer 18, of which I am currently lusting after (well, and the girl > in the boat too). Julie paddled the Romany 16 most of the weekend and > loved it much more than the Explorer. > > Anyways, on to the photos: > > http://homestead.deja.com/user.grindol/JGstand1.html > > is a smaller picture (about 179k) > > while > > http://homestead.deja.com/user.grindol/JGstand.html > > is an enlarged picture but is ~750k. The first small page has a link > to the second page. > > Enjoy, > Mel #------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/ ***************************************************************************
When Maligiaq and John Heath were in the Seattle/Tacoma area some time ago John needed underwater footage of Maligiaq's rolls and so we used my swimming pool to get it done. An underwater videographer was hired by John and a full afternoon was spent documenting what happens underwater. The good news is that a friend (Les Uhrich) and I got a full two hours of up close and detailed footage (from above water) of 33 of Maligiaq's rolls as well as sequential black and white photographs of a number of rolls. The bad news is that, as a favor to John, I won't duplicate the video. What I will do, if anyone is interested, is let someone scan the B&W photo sequence of a couple of rolls that I find most useful (it can be a "teaser" for when John's newest video comes out). The rolls I have in mind are the "broken arm roll" and the "one arm extended paddle roll". Any volunteers to do some scanning and posting? Also, I am willing to do a TR on paddling the West Coast of Scotland but it will take awhile to find the time to do it. John Winskill Mark Zen wrote: > > impressive!! here's the url to maligiaq padilla, doing pushups on top of a > 17" wide boat!! i'd be a swimmer if i tried to anything like that!! i can > barely stand up in my glass canoe!! > > snip *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Only goes to prove: like most other things in life kayaking is a balance thing, not a strength thing. Testosterone enhanced individuals have difficulty with this. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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