Mike wrote: >>Now, I like to vary my stoke a lot, ranging from almost horizontal to a nearly vertical stroke when I'm accelerating hard- pretty much identical to my racing canoe stroke. The amount of torso rotation I use also varies with the stroke. All these factors would seem to dictate unfeathered paddles. Comments? -- mike<< Hi Mike, Why would varying stroke angle and torso rotation necessarily "...dictate unfeathered paddles"? >From my experience, these variances can be employed very nicely with any angle of feather - or non-feather. Is there a specific reason you feel that use of an unfeathered paddle is preferred in these "circumstances"? I think that for just about any paddler, varying stroke angle, cadence, torso rotation, various braces, etc., are all just aspects of a normal paddling technique. Melissa *************************************************************************** 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 Wed Oct 25 2000 - 12:41:20 PDT
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