Re: [Paddlewise] What would you do differently?

A good way to learn a good sculling brace if you don't have a 
reliable roll is to start practicing with a paddlefloat attached to 
the non-submerged paddle blade. This way if you take a dunking, it is 
pretty easy to roll back up using the float. Another thing that 
really helped me when learning is to concentrate on your body 
position, I think most people start off leaning too far forward. You 
need to lean back quite a ways to go down deep. One other thing that 
helped me, was simple doing very deep high braces, going down until 
my head was under water and using a quick high brace to get back up. 
After doing this for a little while, I was able to hold my self down 
longer and longer and convert the brace to a scull. Be very careful 
of your shoulders when practicing high braces, easy to dislocate.

-Patrick

>At 11:27 AM 10/16/99 -0400, Bob Volin wrote:
>>John wrote:
>>>I've worked on my sculling brace and can finally get my head completely
>>>wet.  It took awhile to feel comfortable getting my left elbow down so
>>>I'm holding the paddle like I would a pull-up bar.  Once I did that I was
>>>able to get a nice, slow, sculling motion.
>>>
>>>Unfortunately I've only been able to do a real good scull on my right side.
>>>Can anyone suggest some tricks how to make my offside sculling brace
>>>better?
>>....Why not use a slightly inflated paddle float on that side until you feel
>>comfortable with the movement?
>
>I have used a slightly inflated paddle float to practice a roll but I'm not
>sure
>how well it would work for a sculling brace.  It would seem to me that it
>make it really difficult to get a feel for the blade angle.
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