I strongly agree with Jack. As mark Twain said, the difference between the right word and almost the right word is equivalent to the differnece between lightning bug and lightning. Regarding braces, my definition keys on the position of the paddle wrt the wrists--in a low brace, the paddle is below the wrists, and high vv--and the face of the paddle doing the work--low is back, high is power. You can low brace a pretty good-sized wave. I was once sitting full of water, getting ready to pump out, and got hit by an eyebrow-level wave. I didn't have time to get the paddle flipped over, so just leaned on a low brace and rode it out. Steve Jack Fu wrote: > > Let's stick to usage 2! Usage 1 only causes confusion. > > Usage 1: > > Low brace: paddle held relatively low; ... > High brace: paddle up high; .... > Usage 2: > > Low brace: off (non-power) face of the blade down > High brace: power face of the blade down *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Jul 20 2000 - 10:23:16 PDT
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