Re: [Paddlewise] How do you hold your paddle?

On a recent trip a guide pointed out to me that when paddling in reeds and weeds it is better have the paddle backwards (not upside down, but frontside back).

jerry.


At 08:37 AM 11/17/1999 -0900, you wrote:
>  I was just reading Wes Boyd's account of his trip to Isle Royale (Lake
>Superior) earlier this fall (Thanks Wes!!) and ran across a comment of his
>about how a paddler that they encountered on their trip was holding her
>paddle upside down........... I'm fessin' up here and now - I paddle with my
>paddle upside down -  it feels better to me that way, I like it, I'm not
>changing, and if any of you come up here to Juneau and paddle with me and
>snigger at how I hold my paddle you'll find that my paddle splashes just as
>well upside down as right side up.<grin>
>  So how about the rest of you - right side up, or upside down?
>
>Dave Seng
>Juneau, Alaska
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