Re: [Paddlewise] Dinkless In Victoria

Andree,

Thank you for responding. I was very perplexed at the time and I mentioned
your name only because I had heard you might shed some balanced light on
the subject from the ACA side of things, but more importantly, form the
perspective of someone who doesn't teach stuff that doesn't work. I also
figured you would be able to help explain the head dink verbally (which is
all we have on paddlewise). I better understand concepts when they are
explained to me verbally, if broken down into pertinent details, point by
point. Thank you for not disappointing me.

BC'in Ya
Doug Lloyd 

At 08:30 PM 11/28/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Oh my Go_, I can't believe you mentioned me by name. I've been out of
>town...and saw this thread and was going to try to avoid it as it is so
>hard to explain, but, sigh, I'll try.
>
>So....when I learned to teach bracing and rolling in the eighties, we
>started people with the head down. There is indeed a kinesthetic "thing"
>having to do with the long and short muscles along the sides of our bodies
>- they work together in a mysterious way (to me) when doing a C to C
>motion. 
>
>Now, I used to teach a lean out, reach-arm-out sort of brace with the
>whole body tilting along with the boat. 
>
>When I took my first ACA course in 1989 (for whitewater, in Jackson) I
>first heard the trerm head dink and actually thought it came from the
>southeast. Down around Nantahala and in DC you have a lot of people
>training for slalom...and I think they evolved this thing.
>
>Technique changed from what the ACA now calls the bell-buoy lean to the
>J-Lean or even just "boat tilt". Some instructors don't like to say lean
>at all. 
>
>The idea is that, say, you are doing hip snap practice with your hands
>on your head and just lifting first the left knee, then the right, having
>fun, making waves - and stop with one knee up, and hold. 
>
>Boat tilt - one knee up, one relaxed, and -  head counter-balancing.
>The head is upright or even over-compensating.
>
>Then, the full hip snap - drive opposite knee up, drop head down (or the
>other way around) - the head dropping actually seems to cause the knee to
>come up - bringing the boat flat on it's hull, or under the body, giving
>you something to sit on. The head can get thrown to that side, or just
>dropped gracefully, but without the head, as in the roll (really an
>upside-down extension of bracing/sweeping) it just doesn't work as well,
>or sometimes, at all.
>
>There are all kinds of visualizations for this -
>ear-bone-to-the-knee-bone, a vise, hold the hundred dollar bill on your
>shoulder, etc. 
>
>Secondly, "elbows in, elbows low" for a high brace....no reaching. Once
>your arm starts to sneak out sideways you have potential for a shoulder
>dislocation. 
>
>That's the theory - a start anyway. Maybe I'll put some images up.
>
>I've bought into it all the way!
>
> Andree Hurley
> http://www.viewit.com/KIX/

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