On 18 Feb 2004 at 23:17, Mark Arnold wrote: > it seems to take a little more rotation of my control hand for the brace > position than for normal paddling. That's because you're using only your wrist to rotate the paddle. In a normal forward stroke, the motion of your arm and torso causes some of the rotation. > 1. Am I doing something wrong in setting up for the high brace? Not really. > 2. Should I be rolling my control hand wrist back to get the > non-control hand blade parallel to the water for a brace/scull on the > non-control hand side? Maybe. > 4. In order to scull on the non-control hand side should I relax the > grip on the control hand side and allow the paddle to rotate to the > needed angle to keep the leading edge up? Not really > 5. Is there a part of the proper technique I am totally missing? Forget about _one_ control hand. You should control the paddle with the hand closest to the blade you are concerned with. IOW if you are sculling on the right, control the blade with your right hand. If on the left, use your left hand. The "maybe" above means you should rotate the paddle with your control hand (or slide your non-control hand around) until your non- control hand is able to take control. I usually let my right hand control by default and switch to the left when required. That can be done either by rotating the shaft with the right until the left is in position or rotating my left (not gripping the paddle shaft) until it's in position or a little of both. It's automatic, so I can't tell you what exactly it is that I do. Your basic setup sounds good - hands at shoulder level with elbows down and close to your torso. 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 Thu Feb 19 2004 - 11:22:59 PST
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