>"At the AKT skill symposium a couple of years ago Doug Van Doren did a >rather interesting variation on the hand roll. He capsized holding a >bowling ball and then came with it on his spray skirt." > >I saw that on film once. I think Mike's got that one covered with the 8 >kilogram weight roll. Actually this is not the same roll. Doug holds the bowling ball in his off hand, near his skirt, and sweeps with his outboard hand, to show that, like your head, if the weight is kept low and in the water you can roll up. It's a very effective demonstration as to why keeping your "head down" is so important. In the Greenland championship you have to hold a large brick and sweep with it, using your *outboard hand*. The technique is similar to the Greenland handroll where you sweep from bow to stern with your outboard hand only, palm up, and with the off hand "flung" over the hull as a counterweight to finish. The final recovery is with your torso laying on the aftdeck. In the case of rolling with the brick, while you are sweeping it, the weight doesn't really come into play (as long as you can get the brick and your torso to the surface), but you had better be nearly upright by the end of the sweep or it will quickly pull you back under. I imagine that the harbor in Nuuk, where the 2000 Greenland competition was held, is literally paved with these bricks, from failed rolling attempts. I'm sorry to say that I didn't win any points for this roll, so that should make it all-too-clear where my bricks ended up... Greg Stamer _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. *************************************************************************** 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 Tue Jan 29 2002 - 15:24:56 PST
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