At 04:57 PM 1/9/01 +0200, Joshua Teitelbaum wrote: >Dear Friends: > >We were blessed this week with having Nigel Dennis here to train and give >BCU certification. An awfully nice guy, Nigel is a great teacher, >too. Jacqueline and I passed our 3-star BCU certification. Congrats on the BCU certification. I had the opportunity to get some training from Nigel this summer as well at the AKT skills symposium. I actually took the BCU certification and training from Scott Fairity but took a navigation course and support strokes session from Nigel. My braces are pretty good but he pointed out something to someone else that made them even better. On a high brace, he suggested thinking of the non-bracing hand (the left hand if you're falling over to the right) as a fulcrum point and to make sure that it doesn't move up when trying to brace. If it does the paddle shaft goes vertical. > We were >planning on going for the 4, since we can roll, but time restraints >prevented it. There's a lot mroe the the 4 Star certification than just the ability to roll, as you probably know. Mostly it's the same skills (with the addition of navigation and exerience on longer trips) but under more challenging conditions including surfing small waves. >But that leaves us an excuse to travel to Angelsey, Wales, no? Sounds reasonable to me. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Jan 09 2001 - 07:37:22 PST
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