Scott wrote: >I just popped in a tape of the Santa Cruz >Surf Fest and guess what? I don't see >one single person competing with either >hand paddles, a Greenland paddle, or a >non-feathered paddle. At the last two Santa Cruz surf contests I also noticed that everyone was using feathered paddles. I guessed that this was because the competitors often have a background in whitewater river boating, where paddles seem to always be feathered. (Although they often go down to 45, or even 30 degrees - so what's the difference? OK, OK, I won't go there.) :-) I did notice one fellow at the last Santa Cruz contest with a nonfeathered paddle competing with the top boaters (and doing quite well). I went to the info board and looked up his name. It said George Gronseth. Frank *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Aug 12 1999 - 08:29:12 PDT
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