At 06:55 AM 11/29/99 EST, you wrote: >Like must debates about rolling this is mostly a semantics misunderstanding. >C to C or screw ? J to J? Sea kayak or Surf kayak? Eskimo or Ero. paddle. > >A head dink sounds appropate for "dink boats" which is what I call Surf >kayaks. As far as rolling is concerned, the above statement represents the greatest truth on the subject thus far: What I call a Screw Roll might be what you call a C to C Roll, yet to me there are differences (Srew Roll to me is done with a lay-back recovery). Basically, we should drop some of these names or use them more generically, because our use, interpretation, and practice of the various rolls bantered about lately are somewhat ill-defined. There is basically two rolls only - the sweep and the brace roll (and combinations). Some do it with a forward lean, and end up with a forward lean, and some with a backwards lean (and visa-versa and/or a combination, and some call it a forward or backwards recovery, etc). There are forward sweeps and backward sweeps and half rolls and full. In the end, there are a lot of semantics, most definitely. I happen to like the Sweep Roll because it starts rotational energy early on, and I find it can work well when I'm having trouble with my hip-snap (often). If I can't seem to get up, I switch to the Verticle Storm Roll - sounds cool, but it is basically just a Pawlata Roll (I do believe). Excellent point about semantics Tom. BC'in Ya Doug Lloyd (flickless in Victoria) *************************************************************************** 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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