At 11:10 AM -0700 5/12/01, Jack Fu wrote: >Very interesting point Gerald. I didn't know that euro paddles >were available to the eskimos but they did not adopt them. >When offered something really useful (rifles, snowmobiles, >processed foods, etc.), they adopt them quickly. > If I am not mistaken, at the kayak championships in Greenland, European style blades are explicitly forbidden. Some times there are things going on other than pure evaluation of efficiency. It is hard to speculate at this distance everything that was going through peoples mind. -- Nick Schade Guillemot Kayaks 824 Thompson St Glastonbury, CT 06033 (860) 659-8847 *************************************************************************** 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 Mon May 14 2001 - 08:50:42 PDT
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