Re: [Paddlewise] Rolling course and thoughts

From: John Fereira <jaf30_at_cornell.edu>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 10:45:51 -0400
At 12:15 PM 4/29/02 -0400, Michael Daly wrote:
>From: "Kathea and Ken" <kayakfit_at_fidalgo.net>
>
> > I'm intrigued:  What is a butterfly roll?
>
>John's description is good.  Another is by Brian Nystrom and
>I copied it on my rolling web page:
>
>http://members.rogers.com/michaeldaly2/kayakRollingXref.htm

That's a great page.  I'm going to have to print it out and go down the 
list, trying each of the rolls to see how many I can do.

BTW, did you try the "paddle flip roll" in Ray's class?  He did it a few 
times and Gabriel and I paddled with him last summer.  I couldn't remember 
the set up position (it's not real obvious) but once I did it was fairly 
easy to do and looks really cool when seen from above.

I have one quibble about the Butterfly/back hand roll description in your 
table though.  The two "types" you have available are "brace" and "sweep" 
and the butterfly roll doesn't really fit into either.  It's much easier to 
do if you try *not* to brace with the paddle, but just hold onto it loosely.



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