--- John Fereira <jaf30_at_cornell.edu> wrote: > I've practiced it quite a bit on flat water conditions when doing > rolling practice. I hadn't really tried to do a cowboy rescue in > rough conditions so you might be right. My main point is that one can > learn a lot from failed self rescue attempts and that when I decided > to do a paddlefloat rescue instead I was back in the boat very > quickly. Which is an excellent point--don't keep failing. Try something different! Our weekly skills class did a fun relay race last year at our last session. We had to paddle about 1/8 mile out and 1/8 back, blow bubbles into a floating hula hoop, paddle around another buoy, wet exit, perform a rescue, and then "harpoon" a "seal" (black balloon). I won with a cowboy scramble, but the guy who would have come in 2nd got 4th, since he missed 3 cowboy scrambles in a row. If he'd have tried one, failed, then immediately switched to a paddlefloat or re-enter and roll, he would have finished a lot better. In bigger conditions, and a real rescue scenario, if something didn't work the first time, the chances are it won't work the second time either. Shawn Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com *************************************************************************** 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 Tue Jul 30 2002 - 07:32:45 PDT
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