I took a poling class and was taught to paddle with the pole when the water was too deep. I was able to paddle as easily as pole, all in a standing position. I could feel not differnence in paddling with a pole or a paddle. However, I was actually using almost the same wetted area as I had about 4 or 5 feet of pole in the water and it was about 1.5 inches in diameter. And the non slippage is due to pusing against a solid instead of a liquid when poling . When moved like a paddle, the resistance is against a liquid so it's all the same. Marilyn Nick Schade wrote: >More apparent slippage is inefficient. Why? Say you had 100% "slippage". You have no propulsion, but at the same time, almost no effort. We've been playing fast and loose with this idea of "slippage". Now there *is* such a thing as a zero-slip canoe paddle; it's called a canoe pole, and my friend Jeff Potter could tell us all about it. But a pole is used in a very different way from a paddle specifically because of the much higher resistance. You couldn't paddle the way we're used to with a "zero-slippage" paddle. The effort would be way too high. *************************************************************************** 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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