Re: [Paddlewise] Grace Under Pressure-and roll environment

From: <KiAyker_at_aol.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 17:29:09 EDT
In a message dated 9/12/2003 9:09:05 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
Rcgibbert_at_aol.com writes:
If you are a kayak surfer then you know it is difficult or impossible to roll 
downstream of the wave. In the river, downstream is like rolling upstream in 
the ocean as the waves appear to come from downstream. It's the support of a 
wave that makes rolling easy in a rough water environment. 
   Bracing (which is all any roll really is) is always done downstream, 
regardless of the type of water your in. In the surf the water is being drawn from 
the beach and up the face of the wave, so by bracing into the wave you are, in 
fact, bracing downstream.

Scott
So.Cal.

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