Matt Broze wrote: > Several years later I was going to help a couple of friends learn to roll > and with us all in our kayaks had demonstrated rolling a couple of times. > Somebody else needed to talk to me so I was distracted for a few seconds and > when I turned back around to start the lesson again Lowell said: "I did it". > I said: "did what". He said: "Eskimo rolled". I said: "yeah, right" and the > other guy said: "no he did it, I saw him". Lowell was wet. I was sorry I > just missed seeing the only guy I have heard of to roll on their first try. > It did take him a little while to do it again though. I'd like to take some > credit for this but I hadn't had a chance to even really start the lesson > yet. Chuck Sutherland, our Northeast paddling guru, tells a story of leading a trip one day with some beginners when one of them asked him about Eskimo rolling. Chuck, while paddling along, described the fundamentals of roll, not even actually demonstrating one or going through any of the actual setup motions, finish, etc. The guy said "OK" and proceded to roll right on the spot! Chuck was stunned having never seen anything like it before. Turns out the guy was an accomplished gymnast with pretty much total body control and an ability to pick up on just a verbal description of some movement as he might some exercises on parallel bars or other such stock of his trade. ralph diaz -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** 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 Thu Jun 15 2000 - 06:56:09 PDT
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