Dave, Congratulations on not having to swim for so long. Your on-side roll is obviously very good. Since you already have a good on-side roll, I assume you already know about reaching out wide during the sweep, keeping your inboard hand low and your head down, and using good hip snap, all of which prevent a diving paddle. On your off-side roll (left roll), the paddle may be diving due to forgetting to rotate the inboard wrist (right wrist) backwards while sweeping. When doing a left side roll with a right hand controlled, feathered paddle, the right wrist is already cocked back in the set-up position. To maintain the proper planing angle of the blade during the sweep, it is necessary to rotate the right wrist backwards even more during the sweep. Because the right wrist is already cocked backwards in the set-up position, you have to focus even more on rotating in backwards more and maybe even raise the elbow a bit to get the proper angle. When you end the roll, your right fist should be almost punching you in the face. Without the proper blade rotation, the paddle can stall and dive. If you feel resistance and a lack of lift while sweeping the blade through the water, then this may very well be the problem. Keep rotating the blade back until the resistance is gone and you feel lift. By the way, this already cocked back wrist problem doesn't occur with an unfeathered paddle. Good luck on your off side! Duane *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Aug 15 1999 - 19:45:03 PDT
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