Re: [Paddlewise] Day Hatch

At 09:50 AM 4/24/02 -0700, kcd wrote:
>At 08:52 AM 4/24/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>>Three or four times a day while sitting in
>>a chair point your knees forward and twist your upper body around to look
>>behind you WHILE PRESSING YOUR LEFT HAND HARD AGAINST THE OUTSIDE OF YOUR
>>RIGHT KNEE WHILE LOOKING RIGHT AND VICE VERSA TO LOOK LEFT.  You'll feel a
>>pleasant stretching sensation in your waist area.  After a week I guarantee
>>increased flexibility.  And, eventually, you should be able to stick your
>>head into the day hatch, you'll be so limber.  [kidding again]
>
>
>this is called, in yoga, a spinal twist.

And if you actually do this while paddling it's called torso rotation.


>i have found that yoga, more than any other fitness activity i do, limbers 
>me up for kayaking, specifically for kayaking.  i have a video, kripalu 
>yoga, that i really like.  among other things it lengthens your hamstrings 
>bigtime which is a good thing, somehow, for my kayaking.

Relating this to another thread...

That question I asked about defining the ultimate "Intro to Kayaking" class 
didn't get much interest.  Michael Noyes had some very good suggestions but 
one thing that it didn't include was some stretching prior to getting in 
the boats to start paddling.


>it's good to do that stretch (in caps above) on the water in the boat 
>too.  i do it about every 45 mins. to half-hour.
>
>middle-aged kcd (is 46 middle-aged?)

Only if you're sure that you're going to die when you're 92.


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