On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, James W. Durkin wrote: > Were I to take the "What is the distance between the floor and ..." > heuristic above, I would be looking at 100" (or longer) paddles. At > roughly 6'4" and with fairly (OK, quite) long arms, I can reach up > over the top of an 8-foot ceiling very easily. <snip> > Skis ain't paddles, but it makes we wonder. Why not a wingspan-based > heuristic? There is one. Several sources I consulted before building GPs for myself and a few others also suggest the sum of the distance of your wingspan fingertips-to-fingertips and the distance of your cubit - the distance from your elbow to your fingertips. I built one for my girlfriend using this method. She knew of the floor-to-curled fingers method and when she tested it on the finished paddle, there was a match. My height is six feet, but based on the difficulty I have buying pants sometimes, I must have a relatively short inseam measurement. When I do the wingspan/cubit measurement I get a figure that is about 2 inches longer than the other method. *************************************************************************** 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 Thu Sep 19 2002 - 06:13:55 PDT
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