[Paddlewise] Hand Rolling

Aaron asked:
"What technique did you use (roughly speaking)?"
Start on the back deck, right hand across left shoulder, capsize left, roll
up right using a vigorous fling down with first the left, then the right
hand, and finish on the back deck.
"In a recent pool session I felt I was getting very close."
Keep at it mate, you'll get it. When you do, post a description to help us
other aspirants, (respirants?).

Michael writes:
"FWIW, I know a woman who can hand roll a canoe!!! (WW OC1 with float bags
in it.)  She can put down most bragging kayak hand rollers with a simple
demo! :-)"
Amazing stuff. Is this roll on the rolling list website, or is that confined
to kayak rolls?

Duane writes:
 "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."
Thanks for this, I had only tried back deck to back deck in my sea kayak
(same method as worked with the small boat in hte pool.

And thanks to other hand rolling posters for passing on methods and tips.

PT



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