Nick Schade said: Anyone feel there is any advantage to the wing in this sort of trip. I doubt he was going very fast and maintaining a really good wing technique day-in-day-out seems a little unlikely. Any thoughts? I haven't used a wing in decades, and never for long trips, but I have always changed my technique a little in long races just to be able to use different muscles, or, at least, the same muscles in slightly different ways. I believe that lowering or raising my forward stroke even a little changes things enough to give some benefit in a long, hard paddling session. I would switch from the old Scandinavian stoke, all torso with almost straight arms ( my usual stroke), to the Hungarian, classic no cross-over the centerline, and it seemed to help. My experience with the wing is the same as everyone else - it give less flexibility of technique than other paddles. This might explain the fatigue effect others have described. Jim Tibensky *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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