My only caveat would be that you should have the full set of tools in your pocket. Learn all of the different recovery techniques. The roll is a great one from the standpoint that it is quick and you stay in your boat ready to paddle. What I see as dangerous is the push to roll with new paddlers. They see people rolling, it looks cool and so therefore they invest tons of time trying to roll. They spend zero time learning the other methods of recovering from a capsize. In fact, some that are learning to roll have *never* practiced the other methods. Let's face it, there isn't anything 'cool' about scrambling on to your back deck with your rear end in the air and corkscrewing into your cockpit - they don't show this on the highlight films! For new paddlers, I think they should learn and get extremely competent on 2 or 3 self-recoveries and 2 or 3 assisted recoveries and then...grab the nose plug and start learning to roll. Anyone can gain the basic non-rolling skills quickly and easily. To get to the point where your roll is bombproof on both sides usually requires a great deal of time and practice. K *************************************************************************** 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 Tue May 18 2004 - 06:06:56 PDT
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