At 12:34 AM 10/20/00 -0700, Dave Kruger wrote: >timbre_at_best.com wrote: >> >> hi, i'm new...thought i'd intro myself. [snip] > >> i need some paddle advice. not as in paddling, but as in buying a >> paddle. by profession i'm a violinist so very protective of my hands >> [snip] i found "lightning" paddles out of >> oregon on the web and in the back of a book we have (www.paddles.com) and >> they have a 21 oz. one i am fantasizing about. can you guys enlighten >> me? is there such a thing as "too light" a paddle? when i rent them >> sometimes they are so heavy my hands tingle. yuck. I paddle a Lightning standard but it's the old fiberglass shaft model. I've also paddled the carbon fiber version and I really liked it. It definately felt a lot lighter than my paddle but I'm sure that I get used to it. Getting used to the price (~$345 US) is another thing. *************************************************************************** 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 Fri Oct 20 2000 - 09:06:19 PDT
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:30:33 PDT