At 11:52 AM -0700 9/16/02, Melissa Reese wrote: >On Monday, September 16, 2002, at 10:29:31 AM PST, Rcgibbert_at_aol.com >wrote: > >> Additionally, If you slide the stroke on a "euro" and a foot or two >> of shaft are submerged it seems to me the blade would also be much >> harder to retrieve than a GP. It seems then to follow, that the >> "Euro" on a sliding stroke would then be less effective as it would >> take longer for the next stroke exposing one to harsher conditions >> and negating the need for such a practice in the conditions >> discussed in the string. > >A "sliding stroke" with a GP is really pretty different than sliding >hands along a euro paddle shaft to achieve some extension/leverage. > >When we slide a GP, we can bury the full blade either close to or >further away from the boat, but when we're sliding hands along a euro >paddle shaft, we're effectively only extending the position - away >from the boat - where we can effectively place our blade in the water >(without burying a couple extra feet of shaft and putting the blade >deep under the surface - which could really decrease one's ultimate >control). Frankly I don't see any difference between pushing a GP blade deep in the water and putting a euro deep in the water. In both cases you are moving the center of effort of the blade farther out from your hands. The physical result is the same. How does a sliding stroke create an advantage if it doesn't move the center of effort away from the boat? >When a GP blade is buried deep in the water - sliding stroke or not - >the water side hand is either just on the blade or still fairly close >to it, and the other hand is comfortably gripping across the width of >other blade - which gives a great deal of control. If you extend your >position on a euro paddle shaft, your water side hand is much further >away from the extended blade, with lots of shaft exposed, and your >other hand cannot grip the other blade for the same degree of control >(perhaps just at the very throat, but it's really not the same type of >comfortable control you can achieve by holding a GP blade in your >hand). How does the fact that your hand is touching the blade increase your control? What is it about the GP that makes gripping its blade more effective at control than gripping the base of a euro blade? How does shaft "exposure" decrease control? I could understand if euro paddles had a tendency to rotate in your hands, but they don't. Good euro paddles have egg shaped shaft sections, but even round shafts don't have a tendency to spin in your hands. How does fact that there is a section of shaft "exposed" between your hand and the blade effect paddle control? -- Nick Schade Guillemot Kayaks 824 Thompson St Glastonbury, CT 06033 (860) 659-8847 *************************************************************************** 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 Mon Sep 16 2002 - 16:40:42 PDT
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