On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Whitesavage & Lyle wrote: > Someone with a great deal of paddling experience recently told me that > they routinely switch back and forth between feathered and unfeathered > paddles and that this gives them no trouble. I also switch regularly - wing, carbon euro paddle, greenland, and bow (http://people.ne.mediaone.net/jkolsen/html/paddle.html I'll put up a better picture tonight) Plus the wing is a 70 degree offset the carbon euro paddle a 60 degree offset. My spare paddle is a werner comano with either 90 or no feather. > I was excited to hear this > because I learned to paddle strictly with unfeathered paddles due to > worry about wrist injury (wrist injury would put me out of business). The bow was designed by a friend with wrist problems. Another friend, with elbow problems, swears by the bow. Friend B has never met the guy who designed/built the bow. > Others have told me that I don't need to worry about wrist injury, and > now I wonder if I should go to the trouble of re-training myself. I > also intend to take up greenland style paddling, but will continue to > use euro-paddles with my euro boat, so I'll have to switch styles when I > switch boats if I start using feathered euro paddles. I paddle with the wing on my surf ski, the carbon euro paddle when I race a touring kayak, the greenland when I paddle with friends (so I don't get too far ahead, my technique is not up to Greg Stamer's) and the bow for something different and offseason paddling. I also prefer to practice rolls and braces with the greenland. > Does anyone think I can use both techniques? Yup. But why stop at 2 ;-) kirk *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Sep 20 1999 - 13:52:01 PDT
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