Bill Hansen wrote: > The "straight elbow" paddling technique can help here, but it's hard to use > over time unless one also uses a very wide-apart hand position, which can > easily cause undue stress on shoulder joints. The torso rotation part of the > stroke, of course, is very helpful no matter what problems we're having with > a forward stroke. Just for clarification, the technique I described (or tried to describe, and obviously didn't do a very good job - sorry) isn't "straight elbow". The elbow can be bent at any angle you feel comfortable with. You just maintain the angle throughout the stroke. Your hand position can be anywhere from narrow to wide apart as you prefer. The only difference between it and the conventional stroke is that you do not flex the elbow during the stroke. Mike *************************************************************************** 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 Jun 14 2000 - 19:06:20 PDT
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