[Paddlewise] Dinkless In Victoria

From: Doug Lloyd <dlloyd_at_bc.sympatico.ca>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 23:47:47 -0800
Please help me. I don't understand the apparently American prejudice toward
flicking one's head up as one completes the C to C roll or finishes up from
a low brace. The ACA seem to teach it. Roger Shuman writes articles
extolling the virtues of the "head dink" maneuver. Derek Hutchinson is
ranting and raving against it in the latest SK Magazine (letter to editor). 

I simply bring my head up last, keeping it well back. I can't see the need
to use a head dink movement. I generally tell newbies to avoid a lot of
unsafe head flopping, but now I see it actually being promoted and
entrenched. Given geometric expansion of numbers, it won't be long before
everyone in North America is head dinking. 

Any comments or experience out there with this issue. Any one into
kinesiology.

BC'in Ya
Doug Lloyd (who is being serious here and is not a dink-head)
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