G'Day, Help! Last week I increased the thickness of the knee pads in my boat to get better knee lift. During flat water paddling my knees are just barely in contact with the pads. The improvement in boat control is substantial but now sometimes (not always) after an hours paddling my legs get very cramped. Moving them about one at a time in the space between the pedals helps a bit but not enough and I wouldn't want to do this in a rough sea. The cramps don't always happen but when they do getting out of the boat can be embarassing as the legs have gone to sleep and sunbakers would be forgiven for thinking there was one drunken kayaker falling up the beach. Heaven help me if I tried to get out in the surf in that condition! Can anyone help with suggestions for exercises or foot wear or something? I don't want to reduce the knee pad thickness as it makes a world of difference to boat control. All the best, PeterO *************************************************************************** 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 Sat Dec 29 2001 - 21:45:01 PST
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