At 12:51 PM 04/05/2000 -0400, volinjo_at_juno.com wrote: >Neat trick - I entertain people in quite the opposite way - anyone >watching me enter or exit my kayak at a dock or off the edge of a pool is >likely to die laughing. >Joan Joan, That is funny you should say that. At my kayak I class (just last year) they taught this very careful technique of entering the boat. Lay your paddle just so, hold the boat here, not there, put your weight this way, not that. I was a nervous wreck getting in for months. Then one day I just left out all the protocol, set my paddle on the edge of the dock, stepped in and sat down. When I get to the beach, dock or ramp, I pop the skirt and step out in one motion. I would never say I've got good balance (I'm a clod, 100%) but I'm at ease getting in and out now. (Now if I could only feel the same about head-high waves and rapidly shifting wind directions! Not even close in either case.) jerry. *************************************************************************** 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 Wed Apr 05 2000 - 11:07:46 PDT
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