At 09:17 PM 2/23/02 -0800, you wrote: > I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with bent shaft paddles. >I'm new to paddling and I have a wrist injury that I don't want to aggravate. >In theory, they seem like a logical way to reduce strain on the wrists, but I >wonder if they work in practice. Do they reduce the strain on your wrist? A friend of mine has severe carpal tunnel in his wrists. He designed and built a paddle to alleviate the stress on his wrists. It's a more extreme solution than the crank shaft paddles. Sitting at your desk hold you hands like you are holding a normal paddle. Now rotate your hands so your thumbs are upward, like you are holding the handlebars on a racing bicycle. I can feel the tendons in my forearm tighten when I rotate my hands to the normal paddling position. I've got a couple of pictures of his "bow" paddle at http://people.ne.mediaone.net/jkolsen/html/paddle.html The vertical posts are the hand holds. I don't seem to have a picture of the paddle in use. My canoeing partner has recurring tendonitis problems in his elbow, the only paddle he's willing to use when I've coaxed him into a kayak is my bow paddle. kirk *************************************************************************** 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 Mon Feb 25 2002 - 07:31:00 PST
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