Jolie Smilowicz wrote: > And maybe find water shallow enough > that you can push yourself back up with your paddle blade, so you can avoid > bailing. > > Jolie This is a great way to break a paddle, I did it once in a pool session, trying to pole vault off the bottom! Another time in shallow water I missed a roll (seems I'm always missing a roll) and cracked the end of a Greenland paddle I had just made on the rocks on the river bed. That padddle now has a fiberglassed tip! The best advise I've heard, and it may have come from someone on this list, was to put the paddle float on but try and roll with the normal blade, if you miss the roll switch paddle ends and come up with the paddle float. John Blackburn *************************************************************************** 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 Fri Aug 23 2002 - 08:04:39 PDT
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