Re: [Paddlewise] Perception Dancer/deck blades

----- Original Message -----
From: E. Sullivan <sullivaned_at_pop.mts.kpnw.org>
To: p w <PaddleWise_at_lists.intelenet.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 8:33 PM
Subject: [Paddlewise] Perception Dancer/deck blades


> Anybody surf this boat? Comments? My Caribou is a little
> unwieldy for surfing all day. Got a line on a good [I think]
> deal ($250 for the whole kit (including Lightning graphite
> shaft paddle)), and I think it'll be gone if I wait to try
> it out. I will just be surfing, not whitewater.
>

Hi Ed,

The Dancer is an excellent boat for surfing waves. It will perform grate
even in rouge seas with huge waves. But you must know that whitewater
kayaking has evolved too much from the times when the Dancer was the King
(Lets say 10 years ago). Today's surf kayaks and whitewater kayaks are far
shorter and flatter than the Dancer, allowing more radical moves while
surfing, other than sliding forward, like flat spins, wave wheels, cart
wheels etc. Anyway a Dancer will be grate fun, and up to me, it is still the
"King of the Enders" ( An Ender is done when, while surfing, you manage to
dive the front of the kayak, so being pushed downwards by the wave until
getting vertical, when the air in the kayak will lift you up, and if you are
lucky, you´ll find yourself flying on the air well above the water. Of
course you´ll usually fall upside down so don´t try it if you don´t have a
bomb proof roll )

Have fun and welcome to the Club of the Adrenaline Addicts !!!

UNIÓN DE KAYAKISTAS DE TRAVESÍA
Fernando López Arbarello
uktkayak_at_uol.com.ar

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