In a message dated 5/2/00 6:59:59 AM Pacific Daylight Time, Tor.Dalberg_at_dnv.com writes: > The last that impresses me still was recently on television. I saw > Eskimo roll during forward paddling. I seems that the velocity was not > influenced by the roll at all. How is this possible? The paddler probably executed a sweep roll to a lay-back position. In this roll, the body flows along with the water past the boat and will help continue the forward momentum. The C-C roll slows the boat because it is executed with the body pretty much at right angles to the kayak and extended out into the flow of the water, rather than flowing with it. YMMV Harold *************************************************************************** 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 May 02 2000 - 10:40:34 PDT
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