Re: [Paddlewise] Subject: Re: handsroll vs paddle roll

From: Wayne Smith <wsmith16_at_snet.net>
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 19:48:16 -0400
Jed,

I had this same discussion with Kevin. Maybe it's just me, but I do use the
rotation that is similar to racquetball or baseball in my sweep roll. I do it very
slowly, and just rotate my upper torso. There's a bit of an aspect of lean in it,
for certain, but it's much closer to baseball than my c-to-c roll, which is more
or less a violent lean, with almost no sweep. With that roll, I agree with you
100%.

Could be that I learn by "feel", and it's just that it feels the same. I'd like to
have someone videotape me doing about 10 or 12 different rolls, so I can actually
see how I do them. Could be interesting. Anyone here ever do that?

Wayne


>     I would respectfully disagree with Wayne and Dave. The torso rotation
> that both of you describe as being so powerful is in fact a wondrous thing,
> but it not the same movement that the hips describe during a roll. The torso
> rotation that is used in Racquetball, Baseball and Boxing is around the
> vertical axis, while the hip rotation is, I believe, around the longitudinal
> axis. Please forgive me if I have labeled the axis incorrectly, certainly one
> of PW's many engineers can correct me if I am wrong.
>
> Jedthro
>


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