Re: [Paddlewise] To Roll No More

MJAkayaker_at_aol.com wrote:

> I was finally getting confident in my roll.  ...snip...  MY ROLL IS GONE!
> ...snip...

I used to teach a lot of tennis and am a big fan of Timothy Gallwey's "Inner
Tennis" approach.  He wrote a few books about it, but basically you try to give
the mind something useful to observe about the body's actions (on a scale of one
to ten, how loose was your wrist on that serve?) or the results of those actions
(how high above the net did the ball go?) so the body can go to work on its own
and improve on those results.  If you pinpoint the right thing to focus on, the
results can be magical and astounding.  This as opposed to the traditional
teaching method of telling the student exactly where each body part is supposed
to be at each point in the movement sequence.  Too much input from the mind only
confuses the body.

I'm guessing that is what happened to Mark from watching the video too closely.
Since I don't know how to roll, and I want to learn this summer, and I want some
of the aforementioned "astounding" results, and Mark wants his roll back, I am
hoping some of the paddling gurus out there might take a stab at "Inner Rolling."

That is, if they can do it without referring to eyeballs or stomachs.  Thanks in
advance for any help offered.

Richard Frost



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