(Moderator's Note: Content unaltered. Excessive quoting (i.e. headers/footers/sig lines/comments from previous posts, etc.) have been removed. Please edit quoted material and list footers when replying to posts.) Dear padling friends, now I dont know much about thie tecknical side of padles but feel that we are missing somthing. You guys are all talking about the padle standing still in the water and the boat moving and that is also what I tell my students but, the eskimo padle has a completly different form and modern padles, here the water easely moves past the padle it is this movement (slippage) thatproduces the propulsion. I do not quite understand it but it must be simmular to swimming where you maintain a space between your fingers where the water can flow trough. I maight have it all wrong but I am sure that som of you tech wizards can clearefy this best regards from Denmark Lenze Middelberg Havkajakcenter Svendborg Skaregårdsvej 9 Skovballe DK5700 Svendborg (+45) 62541920 lenze_at_naturtur.dk www.havkajakcenter.dk *************************************************************************** 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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