Mike wrote: Will the human with the higher cadence be more efficient? Not necessarily. If we limit ourselves to the typical range of paddles, the human with the higher cadence will be operating more efficiently, but he or she will only be paddling more efficiently if the paddle is designed to take advantage of that. Mike, I'm not a physicist, I can barely count all my toes and fingers without using paper and pencil, but I raced kayaks for thirty years and won a lot of sprint races. You are absolutely not correct in this. In every single race I ever entered I had the slowest stroke rate. At the Marathon Nationals in 1975 I was the butt of a lot of jokes. By the people who I beat in the race. If your higher cadence comes from lily dipping and my slow one comes from deep, long strokes, do you really think you're going faster than me? Six inch long strokes at 100 strokes a minute will never beat two foot long strokes at 75 a minute, will they? Not in my 300+ races experience it won't. And it has nothing to do with the paddle, I'm sure. Or are you saying that speed and efficiency are separate? The best way to never be wrong is to say "all things being equal". They never are when humans pick up paddles. Identical twins paddling identical boats with identical paddles will never be all equal. Unless their hearts are beating in unison, they had the same food and sleep and water for the last few weeks, they were thinking the same thoughts and occupied the exact same place at exactly the same time. I think a physicist might say that those conditions can't be met. So why not stop discussing how many angels can dance on a pinhead's paddle and spend more time with practical stuff. Like how many cans of root beer does a day hatch hold? Or like general paddling principles that lend themselves to good strokes? Jim Tibensky _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com *************************************************************************** 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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