On 2 Nov 2003 at 23:43, Mark Arnold wrote: > I could swear that in > an earlier article and when I took lessons from Greg the hand was > described as moving down and forward to just above the knee on the > OPPOSITE side of the pushing hand (ie the hand crossing the > centerline). That sounds right. The other must be a typo. > Not crossing the centerline with the pushing hand would seem to > shorten the stroke considerably. John Heath's discussion of the > stroke talks about making the stroke much longer than what most > American paddlers were using as Greenland technique when Malliqiaq was > visiting. This would also seem to argue for crossing over the > centerline with the pushing hand. Exactly right. The old saw about not crossing the centerline is not valid, either for modern EP technique or for GP technique. I have been "accused" of having a canoe stroke showing in my kayak paddling technique and I like the fact that using a GP lets me leave that stroke technique in there. Easier to change to GP than unlearn the canoe stroke for EP :-) Mike *************************************************************************** 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 Mon Nov 03 2003 - 00:21:57 PST
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