At 05:07 PM 1/8/03 -0500, Michael Daly wrote: >From: "PeterO" <rebyl_kayak_at_iprimus.com.au> > > > One of my problems is that the blade tends to dive when using the power > face > > down on the water as the text books advocate. When using the power face > > upwards, sculling seems much more stable as the blade tends to > automatically > > find the right planing angle. Although I still can't get right down in the > > water and maintain the brace. > >I learned the sculling brace correctly after struggling with it for >a while. I took lessons from Ray Killen at the East Coast symposium >in South Carolina last spring. >... ... >As far as the problem with paddle diving, I'd say beg, steal, borrow >or make a Greenland style paddle and use it until you've got the >sculling brace down pat. Then go back to the old paddle when you >only have one problem to fight. I spent a few hours with Ray Killen a couple of summers ago and did some informal training. He was standing in the water a dozen or so feet from shore next to me and first asked me to show him a roll. I did a roll then he said "let me see your paddle" (a lightning standard). I handed it to him and he tossed it to shore and handed me a greenland paddle and said, "try using this instead". In an hour or so he had me doing a deep water sculling brace, a sweep roll, pawlata roll, butterfly roll, and the beginnings of a balance brace. *************************************************************************** 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 Jan 09 2003 - 09:11:01 PST
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