In a message dated 5/14/01 9:59:36 PM, sh_at_actglobal.net writes: << The trick for me was when Pete suggested that I just get a lot looser in the hips and let the boat do what it wants to do. His advice was that the boat would not capsize unless the occupant (he said idiot-referring to me) in the cockpit did something to make it capsize. >> I got this kind of advise all the time. It wasn't what I needed to know. I was not balanced in the boat. If I was a rag doll in the boat I was not going to stay up. The piece of information I needed was to keep my head AND shoulders level and not worry about what went on inside the boat. I had been using my spine and head, which kept my hips tight. I kept feeling that I had to balance somehow and that meant using my hip. I didn't understand it was my shoulders, not my hips that needed to be actively used for balance. I was using the same balance system for the boat that I used for my horse. I'm kind of wondering if it might not work for the horse too. I'll have to try it and see. But the horse I do want to give an assist to with my seat. We'll see. Joan *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
Joan, I think you just hit it on the nail!! That sounds like what starts to work for me after I've been in the boat for at least 1`5 minutes. Those first few minutes are another story though---every bone and muscle in my body is stiff because I KNOW I'M GOING OVER with the next wave. Steve > << The trick for me was when Pete suggested that I just get a lot >> looser in >> the >> >> hips and let the boat do what it wants to do. > The piece of information I needed was to keep > my head AND > shoulders level and not worry about what went on inside the boat. > I had been using my spine and head, which kept my hips tight. I kept > feeling that I had to balance somehow and that meant using my > hip. I didn't > understand it was my shoulders, not my hips that needed to be > actively used > for balance. *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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