You missed one point that I have been wondering about for a while now. The foot pump is supposed to be an asset because you have your hands free for bracing and paddling. If you have one foot off the pegs so you can pump how can you effectively brace? then there is the off balance paddling because one foot is off the pegs, but I suppose you could time your strokes to your pumping rhythm to correct that. Mike -- Paddling along through fog so thick that only one's thoughts are visible, your reverie is abruptly shattered by the ancient cry of a great blue heron as she lifts uncertainly from the brilliant blue of a mussel-shell beach witnessed only by the brooding, wet spruce....your passage home seems as much back through time as it does through space. Mark H Hunt *************************************************************************** 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 Sun Jan 23 2000 - 16:47:57 PST
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