At 08:12 PM 5/2/00 -0500, Arthur Hebert wrote: >>Bob on the Bayside wrote; >>What degree of feather do you prefer? I've heard 60 is best and I've >>heard anything less than 70 is useless. > > >Hi Bob, >I use a 70* feathered paddle. This feels like a natural rotation of MY >wrist. >Arthur Hebert Arthur certainly has more experience than I do but that's not going to stop me from expressing my opinion on this topic. I have read quite a few people on various internet paddling forums make a statement like "get a paddle with less than 60 degree feather because anything more causes wrist problems". My answer is, " feathered paddles don't cause wrist problems, repetively bending your wrist to it's maxium range of motion causes wrist problems". When doing a forward stroke, one of the goals is to have the blade enter the water at the same angle on both sides. With a feathered paddle, achieving that angle on the off-control hand side, is typically done by bending the wrist. If, however, one bends their elbow as well as bending the wrist, that same angle can be achieved without bending the wrist to it's maximum range of motion. Sure, it's easy to "solve" wrist problems with a paddle with a lesser amount of feather, but a slight modification of the paddle stroke will achieve the same results. *************************************************************************** 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 May 03 2000 - 06:19:53 PDT
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