Here is a quick summary of some of what I have received back regarding teaching rolling. Thanks everybody. If anyone else has ideas about teaching rolling to sea kayakers using Euro style paddles (ie: not Greenland style) the ideas are welcome. cheers Phil Sid wrote: Kent Ford has recently released a new video tape called the Kayak Roll. He presents a good progression for teaching rolling. You can order it from www.performancevideo.com John wrote: practicing hip flicks - spend a little more time here. get parallel to the edge of the pool, grab hold of it. Put head near hands, or ear in the water. Then try doing again but try to keep the bottom of the boat flat to the water. Once in that position, slowly rotate the boat with the hips as far as you can, then rotate it back up flat, then bring your head back up. This isn't really a "hip flick" but it helps loosen the hips. This is good for beginners who are usually very stiff in the hips. Slowly rotating the boat with the hips gives a better idea of what they're trying to accomplish. Once turning the boat over and back with the hips progressively move the head deeper into the water until able to turn completely upside down, holding onto the edge of the pool with one hand (the hand away from the edge of the pool), and then hip snap the boat back up. One trick to keep the head coming up last is to look at the bottom of the pool until the boat is completely back under you. I use the term "check point positions". The first checkpoint - paddle parallel to the boat on the side opposite the side that they'll be coming up. - hold the paddle next to the hull until completely upside down. The second checkpoint when upside down with paddle parallel to boat check the position by pushing paddle toward the sky and bending at the waist, stretching their side out as much as they can. (Assuming doing to do a C-to-C roll) the third checkpoint is achieved by bringing the paddle perpendicular to the boat with the hand that is closest to the boat reaching around the bottom as much as they can. If blade angle is correct the outside blade should remain on the surface. Slapping the surface of the water with the outside blade confirms the third checkpoint position. Now do hip snap and roll up. When teaching a sweep roll one common failure when sweeping the paddle from parallel to perpendicular is the inability to keep the outside blade near the surface due to the angle of the blade. If rolling up on the right, make sure that right wrist is cocked forward while sweeping. paddle floats - Personally, I think they're useful if they're only used to demonstrate paddle positions. Bill wrote: For books, I suggest the Paul Dutky book "The Bombproof Roll and Beyond". *************************************************************************** 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 Feb 16 2002 - 05:08:05 PST
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