Yesterday I was trying to help someone with their sculling brace. Yes many people have problems with the sculling brace when there body reaches the water There several problems Many people stop moving the paddle ( out of fear?) Often the movement of the paddle is to short ( as said before should be like spreading butter) Ofetn folks forget to raise the outher hand as they go down and the blade disapears into the water. Most important is the position of the body and head, Iff hte head goes slightly op, the hips will go down and make very difficult to find a ballance, Try to keep the head in the water with the face looking upwards. This way the hips will turn the boat on the keel and make it all a lot easyer. Actualy I am not so sure that turning the body backwards does so much, as long as the body is in the water a 90 degree angle to the boat will give more support. Good Luck Lenze 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/ *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** 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 Nov 13 2003 - 11:23:41 PST
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