Peter, For a few years now, I've been able to hand roll white water kayaks with ease. However, hand rolling a sea kayak evaded me until just recently, when I bought a Boreal Design Ellesmere (17 foot), which has a low back deck and cockpit and seemed to make the difference. Right now I am winding up my torso in a C to C roll style, hip snapping, and then laying on the back deck, but I plan to experiment with some other ways of doing it too. I have seen videos of people hand rolling higher volume sea kayaks with ease. They all ended the hand roll in the C to C position or leaning forward. Although rolling a fully loaded sea kayak with a paddle is easy, I imaging that hand rolling one would be a lot harder. My hand roll in a sea kayak isn't consistent enough yet to try in a fully loaded one. I still think that for the most part a hand roll is party trick, albeit a very cool one. Except when playing in the surf, I've still haven't had to do a combat paddle roll yet (thanks to good bracing). Duane Strosaker www.rollordrown.com *************************************************************************** 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 Nov 07 2002 - 18:43:55 PST
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