Greetings from a new PaddleWise member, and a new paddler, in Roswell, GA, 1/4 mile from the Chattahoochee River. After a couple weeks' paddling my new Zoar Sport kayak with the flat-blade Carlisle I bought as a spare, I received shipment of a Eddyline MidSwift paddle. It's nice and light, and I like the blade size, but I notice a fairly pronounced flutter, as it gyrates a bit on its axis a couple cycles per stroke. I'm deciding whether to return it and order a Lightning paddle or something else. Is this flutter a paddler issue I can correct without implementing a death grip? I'm trying to form the practice of holding the paddle lightly to protect my 48-year-old wrists that get enough abuse from the mouse and the keyboard. If it's an unavoidabler feature of this paddle, should I consider it a substantial performance or ergonomic liability? *************************************************************************** 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 Thu Nov 29 2001 - 13:24:01 PST
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