<Sid Wrote You may want to try actually laying the person out backwards with their head "on" the back deck. This lowers the center of gravity. I believe it is how most people teach the rescue.> Yes there are a lot of local differnces and yes must places use the leanback, also in roll etc. A more modern approache is leaning forwards, the center of gravety is the same ! but for most people and in most kayaks leaning forwards is a lot easier. It is a much more natural movement, anybody can put there forhead on the for deck, but I can only reach backwards iff I lift my bum from the seat. This even more so in many modern boats with high backrests. As for rolling the forwards lean will olsa place yuo in a lot better situation facing forwards then the the leanback ! Best regards, and a prosperous new year Lenze www.havkajakcenter.dk *************************************************************************** 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 Jan 05 2004 - 08:20:16 PST
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:31:11 PDT