Another good pool practice is to load your deck up with all the various geegaws that you use under normal paddling conditions -- things like map cases, water bottles, cameras etc. We tend to practice with pretty stripped down boats, a very unpleasant surprise to roll out and about somewhere and discover your sunglasses gone, your chart floating aware, a beaver swimming off with your camera and water bottle... -Patrick At 5:47 AM -0800 3/13/01, SNStone wrote: >True, it is difficult to emulate varying conditions in a pool. However, you >can practice with a dry suit in a pool. I have a friend who will practice >with various types of gloves in a pool. I started doing this last winter >since things feel different with gloves on. Although the combination of dry >suit, pfd and gloves in a pool cannot fully replicate the same in the sea, I >do believe you will get a better feel for executing a roll with all your >equipment on. [SNIP] *************************************************************************** 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 Mar 13 2001 - 13:31:10 PST
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