I have just returned from paddling on the west coast of Baja. If you'd like the Float Log let me know. It is better edited than the last one. Sid Taylor *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
Dear Group, I am diabetic and have to exercise, among other things, to control my blood sugar. Three years ago I started kayaking. Going out on Wednesdays and the weekend. Its great exercise. Started out in a Dagger Callisto but is was too small. Switched last winter to a Dagger Cortez. The other evenings I walk 2-3 miles. Picked up a Dagger RPM MAX to try white water, and get a roll. To help in holding my breath during a roll, I have started practicing holding my breath while walking. I walk at a pace to do 3 1/2 miles and hour. Inhale a big breath and hold it, and count my steps while walking. Thirty steps was my maximum. Got it up to 50 steps. Then I figured out that going over in a kayak was the equivalent of holding my breath on no air (exhale). So now I breath normally. After exhaling, I hold my breath. At first I could hold my breath for 10-15 steps. Now I can hold my breath for 20-25 steps. This has given me the chance to do two to three attempts at a roll. During this time, (since last April), I had a roll just 30 % of the time. Now I can hit a on side roll (RPM MAX) every time on flat water. Going to try the roll in the Cortez next. Still working on a bomb proof roll on white water and off side roll. Safe Paddling -- Peter Cragg Scoutmaster Troop 889 *************************************************************************** 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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