Duane writes: "I had a long 1/4 mile swim ahead of me through surf, rip currents and a current pushing me fast down the coast. I knew I was going to stay warm in my full wetsuit and stay afloat in my PFD, and I had the paddle to make swimming faster, but despite pacing myself and taking short breaks, I was tiring quickly. " Thanks for the great surf report. Do you have any tips for swimming with a paddle? In "Deep Trouble", there is a comment somewhere that with a feathered paddle, it may be better to swim on your back, whereas an unfeathered paddle can be used like a crawl stroke, facing forwards. What do you think works best? Regards, PT *************************************************************************** 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 Mon Feb 07 2000 - 14:16:27 PST
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