Hi, when I read this little story about learning skills (btw very interesting) it made me posting the following story. It's about learning to roll. I took a Eskimo -better Inuit- Roll clinic last year in April, before I ever was in a seakayak on open water. Just did a self rescue clinic before -also in the pool. Well, at that time it didn't work very well. Only the first 180 degree of the roll were bomb-proof, the other 180 worked only with aid of the paddle float now and then. Almost a year later, during the last 3 weeks I did 2 pool sessions with a whitewater gang in one of their little tiny playboats -was hard to believe that I could squeeze myself into one of these things. Seems like one of those would almost fit into the rear hatch of my seakayak ;) However, I think they are great to learn the basic rolling technique. Whenever I tried to roll up with the paddle not 100% in the right orientation, this little thing started to spin around his bow instead of rolling up. This shows you every little mistake and forces you to correct it. It works now and then, but I need definitely a couple of more sessions in the pool before I try unforced rolling in the Atlantic. The ocean here in Nova Scotia gets even in the summer only up to 16 Celsius, parts of it are right now solid. Anyway, now I am curious to give it a try with my seakayak, but than 50% of the whitewater boats have to stay out of the pool ;) The guys might hate me for that. Keep on learning and practising Cheers ulli Ulli Hoeger Dept. Physiology and Biophysics Dalhousie University Halifax, B3H4H7, Nova Scotia Canada Phone I : 902-494-2673 Fax: 902-494-1685 Phone II :902-488-6796 http://is.dal.ca/~uhoeger *************************************************************************** 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 Tue Feb 15 2000 - 13:29:14 PST
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