Paddlewisers, I just received and watched the new forward stroke video from Greg Barton of Epic Kayaks. It is pretty good, but if I had to choose only one video on the forward stroke, it would be the one from Brent Reitz. Although both of them are doing pretty much the same stroke, Reitz does a better job organizing his instruction and emphasizing the points. However, both videos miss some points, most of which the other video covers. For example, Reitz does an excellent job emphasizing how to avoid flicking the wrist with a feathered paddle, while Barton gave it only a sentence or two. On the other hand, Reitz didn't cover anything about alternating the raising and lowering of the knees with the stroke, while Barton covered it pretty well. Barton also covered grip width, while Reitz didn't mention it. Reitz didn't mention anything about paddle length, but Barton's info about it was useless. Interestingly, neither of them covered the proper length for the foot pegs, which I think is an important part of the forward stroke. If you are as obsessed with the forward stroke as I am, it's good to have both videos to fill in most of the gaps. 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/ ***************************************************************************
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:33:34 PDT