Jan Shriner & Roger Schumann wrote: > If you get out the magnifying glass > you will see that the "head dink" is actually putting the head onto the > shoulder that is on the recovering side, basically "bringing the head up > last." Perhaps part of the confusion is the interpretation of head dink (by myself and, it seems, Doug and others) as the flicking of the head at the _end_ of the roll, rather than the drop of the head to the shoulder at the beginning. Other descriptions of the head dink I've read seemed to imply this. Dropping your head at the beginning is important, as is removing your head from the water last. However, finishing the roll with a rapid head flick, as many paddlers do, is asking for trouble. Your head represents a fair bit of momentum and swinging it rapidly up at the end of the roll will force the rest of you back down into the water. You should finish with a relatively slow, smooth motion to bring your head erect. I have a bad habit of head flicking (only on a c-c, since my sweep-roll ends in a low lay-back) as a result of having long hair back in the hippie days. Whenever I surfaced while swimming back then, I'd do a head flick to get my saturated bangs out of my eyes. Old habits are hard to break. Mike *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Nov 25 1999 - 16:53:26 PST
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