Paddling with a Inuit style paddle (long thin blades using anthropometric measurements (designed to meet your body measurements)is considered paddling "Greenland style" here in the US of A. Having recently watch the Greenland National Champion paddle at the DelMarVa Paddler's Retreat, I suggest we paddle Americanized Greenland. Brian Blankinship Yellow Pintail "Euro" crank paddle *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
At 08:54 10/16/99 EDT, Blankibr_at_aol.com wrote: >Paddling with a Inuit style paddle (long thin blades using anthropometric >measurements (designed to meet your body measurements)is considered paddling >"Greenland style" here in the US of A. Having recently watch the Greenland >National Champion paddle at the DelMarVa Paddler's Retreat, I suggest we >paddle Americanized Greenland. having gotten to spend a week or more with maligiaq this summer, over the course of2+ months, i agree that there is very little "true" greenland style boating done around here ;-} and my sliding stoke has improved a LOT!! i have been able to adapt it to my euro-style WW paddle, such that i can comfortably paddle long distances [10-15 miles] with a very short paddle. [203 vs 230!!] mark -- #------canoeist[at]netbox[dot]com-------------------------------------- mark zen o, o__ o_/| o_. po box 474 </ [\/ [\_| [\_\ ft. lupton, co 80621-0474 (`-/-------/----') (`----|-------\-') #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~ http://www.jacknjillz.com/paddler [index of Paddling websites I manage] Rocky Mtn Sea Kayak Club, Colorado River Flows, Poudre Paddlers The Colorado Paddlers' Resource, Rocky Mtn Canoe Club Trip Page -- Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. --Pablo Picasso *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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